But at the same time I wanted to make this a really powerful, emotional experience that explains everything that we’ve seen up to that point, and also see it from, this is a crucial, see it from Mohamedou’s point of view.
This is a movie unlike any other that I think has been made where you are compelled to empathize with a Muslim man accused of terror and see what he goes through.
And you don’t want to do that in a way that’s going to make all the audience get up and leave their seats or switch off if they’re watching at home, as they may be.
We spent a lot of time, the DP, the designer, and I, talking about how we would do – and the writers – how we would do these sequences because, obviously, it’s the center of this story in a way is that the character is, no surprise, is severely tortured and abused.