Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfeld spend a lot of time in The Keeping Room in a keeping room, but somehow they manage to not actually explain what a “keeping room” is to those of us who don’t have a keeping room.
But don’t worry! Crave is on the case, asking Hailee Steinfeld and Brit Marling all the hard-hitting questions in this exclusive video interview with the stars of the new western from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown).
The Keeping Room is now playing in select theaters, and will expand in October.
Related: The B-Movies Podcast Reviews ‘The Keeping Room’
From the Press Release:
In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta (Brit Marling, Arbitrage, The East) encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers (Sam Worthington, Avatar) who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise (Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit, Pitch Perfect 2) and their female slave Mad (newcomer Muna Otaru.) When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless.
Based on Julia Hart’s revered 2012 Black List screenplay, and directed by Academy Award® Nominated Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), The Keeping Room is a tense and uncompromising tale of survival that also shatters both gender and genre conventions.
