Writer-director Alex Garland, and stars Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman, Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny, discuss the hot-button film imagining our nation divided, in which rebel forces from breakaway states try to depose an autocratic president.
America's darkest chapter has never been far from Hollywood's vivid imagination. From 'Gone With the Wind' to 'Glory' to 'Lincoln,' movies have brought us the barbarity and the politics of the Civil War. But what if the bloody 19th century conflict were merely our first civil war?That's the premise of a new film, 'Civil War,' opening this week. It's an unflinching and relentless look at a nation divided and violent, not in the 1860s, but today.
'Seeing this happen here is an unsettling experience, one shared by the cast, including Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny, who play two of the three reporters traveling with Kirsten Dunst. Spaeny said, 'It was the first time that I felt like the message really went through me. You know, it felt like a gut punch. And I came out of it feeling like I want to take action, you know, that I don't want it to ever get to this point.
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