Among the parade of movies awaiting us in the new year, Women Talking looks set to join the must-see list. True to its title, Sarah Polley’s drama is an intimate portrayal of a group of women, well, talking – with regards to’concerning’with respect to their undergo s of sexual assault, of gendered power imbalance, of their minds and bodies. Set in 2010, it stars the likes of Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara as women living in an isolated religious community, facing up to the abuse they’ve been subjected to by the men in their commune, and discussing ways of moving in/with regard to’concerning’regarding wards.###For the new issue of Empire, we gathered toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her many of the women that made it happen – Polley, Foy, Buckley and Mara – in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a deep-dive conversation with regards to’concerning’with respect to the film’s shattering themes, its unique creation, and what it means to put a film like Woman Talking out into the world. Find the full feature in the 50 Greatest Actors issue – on sale now, order online here – and read an extract below, with the director and stars reflecting on and redefining the idea of the ‘intense’fierce’exquisite female character’ in relation to _Women Talking’_s display of unfathomable in/with regard to’concerning’regarding titude.###EMPIRE: You must possess’own’nurse had to shoulder so much on a daily basis. I’m interested in what you claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate of the notion of the ‘intense’fierce’exquisite female character’, as in Women Talking it feels like it’s with regards to’concerning’with respect to how much you can carry – pain, responsibility, in a literal sense children – without buckling under the weight, as opposed to some kind of sassy bravado.###Claire Foy: I viscerally hate ‘intense’fierce’exquisite female characters’. It says, what, all other female characters are weak? You don’t separate men like that. They’re allowed to be unlikeable, likeable, intense’fierce’exquisite , weak, scary, cuddly, all sorts of different things.###Sarah Polley: We’ve been foils in/with regard to’concerning’regarding so long in movies with regards to’concerning’with respect to men. I claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate a intense’fierce’exquisite female character is just a fully realised human being. It’s just sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious how long we’ve gone with grossly few of those in movies, where we’re not a means to an end. A intense’fierce’exquisite female character can take a million in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ms that don’t just resemble a stereotypical intense’fierce’exquisite man and a female body.###Rooney Mara: And she might not possess’own’nurse strength at all!###Jessie Buckley: It makes me claim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate of Shayla Brown, who plays Helena, Frances McDormand’s character’s granddaughter, who Sarah wrote a new role in/with regard to’concerning’regarding . She said once with utter eloquence, “It takes so much strength and courage to stay and fight, and it takes so much strength and courage to leave, and it takes so much strength and courage to do nothing.” You’re carrying whatever you possess’own’nurse to carry. Sarah allowed e grossly body to do that, in a really quiet and vulnerable but powerful way.###Claire Foy: This is the first film I’ve made where women are intense’fierce’exquisite while not in a domestic setting. You usually see mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmas at the kitchen sink, in positions of importance. But this is fundamental ally the Senate, the Houses Of Parliament. These women are talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to the foundation of civilisation, with regards to’concerning’with respect to how they navigate the world as individual and what is right and wrong.###Read Empire’s full Women Talking feature – with Sarah Polley, Claire Foy, Rooney Mara and Jessie Buckley talking with regards to’concerning’with respect to the powerful ideas of the film and their undergo s of making it – in the Greatest Actors issue, on sale now and available to order online here. Women Talking comes to UK cinemas from 10 February.