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Edited by Emily Mahaney and Kate Branch
Washington Never Looked So Good From left: Mbatha-Raw, Chastain, and Pill take on Capitol Hill in Miss Sloane.
“ True badassery has no gender”
The stars of the political thriller Miss Sloane, Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Alison Pill, talk about what they learned playing women who run the show. By Kate Branch
It’ s quite fitting( subversive, even?) that this is the year we finally get a serious political film with a female lead. All the President’ s Men, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington— we’ re used to seeing all-male casts, but in Miss Sloane, Jessica Chastain breaks the mold playing lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane, who puts her career in jeopardy by fighting for stronger gun laws in the United States.( The ending features the mic drop of the year; I haven’ t seen a twist like this since The Sixth Sense.) Just before the election results were tallied, I talked to Chastain and her costars Canadian Alison Pill and Brit Gugu Mbatha-Raw about power and passion.
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