Alana Haim hopes ‘The Drama’ will make people have “very hard discussions” amid controversial twist
Alana Haim has spoken about her role in the new movie The Drama, a film she said will lead to “very hard discussions”.
The new A24 film, written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, is set for release in cinemas in the UK on April 3rd. It stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya as a soon-to-be married couple whose relationship is changed by one confession.
The plotline for the movie has largely been kept under wraps, apart from the loose premise for The Drama that a dark secret is unveiled days before they are due to get married, which makes the other recontemplate everything about their relationship.
Now, Haim, who is part of the ensemble cast along with Mamoudou Athie, Hailey Gates and Zoë Winters, has spoken about her hopes for the film’s controversial twist.
Haim told The Hollywood Reporter, “I saw it with some of my friends — we got an early screening and it was really crazy the amount of discussion that happened after the movie.”
The One Battle After Another actor continued, “There are going to be very hard discussions or very funny discussions or very sad discussions. It kind of runs the gamut of emotion with this movie — and I think that without this movie, a lot of people wouldn’t be talking about those things, which is why you make art.”
Haim, however, will not be participating in those discussions, stating that she’s learned from her experience in the music industry “that you can’t look at anything, so I won’t be looking at anything”.
Nevertheless, she added, “I’m happy that there’s going to be discussions.”
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
According to TMZ, the film features a dark twist during a parlour game when the romantic-comedy becomes something else entirely after Zendaya’s character, Emma Harwood, tells her friends and fiancé her deepest confession.
The report claims that Harwood reveals that she planned a school shooting when she was a teenage student, but ultimately, she got cold feet and didn’t go through with committing the atrocity. However, this alters the dynamic between Harwood, her fiancé and the entire friendship group.
Last week, Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel Mauser was among the 13 students murdered in 1999 during the Columbine High School massacre, condemned the film.
Mauser deemed the twist to be an “awful” decision and expressed his fears that it “humanises” school shooters and “normalises” the barbaric act.
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