Mary Elizabeth Winstead interview - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

It's amazing. I'm I'm so proud of the film. I'm so proud of what our director Michelle has done with it. I think she's so brilliant, um and such an artist. And and so I'm just I just feel really lucky to be a part of it. I think she did just such a beautiful job and has brought something, um, to life that's, you know, it's based on an an original iconic film from the 90s, but I think she's done something really new, um, and completely unique with it as well, and I'm I'm excited to bring it to new audiences. 

Whether you're a parent and you've had to hire a nanny, or, you know, someone who has to sort of live in your home, or just be close in your orbit, um, who you may not know very well, um, it's something that can be really great for your life, or it also can be a bit uncomfortable, and there's this kind of push and pull with that of like, okay, how do we like set boundaries so that this can work for everybody, because it's a very intimate situation to be in with somebody who you don't know very well. 

Um, so I think the film definitely taps into that uncomfortability that a lot of us have felt in one way or another, and it kind of scratches at it, you know, just forcing you to imagine what it would be like to take it all the way to like, you know, the biggest degree of of terror that it could go to.