The ambiguous ending was the first scene the two actors shot together.
Warning: This article contains spoilers aboutJuror #2.
Nicholas HoultandToni Collettehad to start at the end.
Toni Collette in ‘Juror #2’.Warner Bros.
“The whole thing was intimidating,” she tellsEntertainment Weekly.
“It’s Clint Eastwood.
I admire him so much.
Nicholas Hoult in ‘Juror #2’.Claire Folger
I have so much respect for him he’s a living legend, an iconic cinematic figure.
And then, suddenly, you’re on his set.”
The scene itself is fairly ambiguous and features no dialogue.
Then, it cuts to black.
So, what’s next?
Is she there to arrest him?
Does she want to hash it out before taking more extreme measures?
Is he screwed from this moment onwards?
Hoult says it’s clear those were the questions Eastwood wanted his audience to ask.
“Clint likes to not over explain,” he says.
It’s not spoon-fed to them."
“We did a couple of different versions,” he notes.
There’s different elements, so that there were potentially different conclusions that you could draw.
And what is the right thing to happen next?'"
They both believe that Faith is there to see this through and get justice for the victim.
“This woman’s dedicated her entire life to justice and doing the right thing,” Collette says.
“To uncovering the truth.
And there’s so much at stake for her.
That’s just an innate part of her.”
“Justin sees his world crumbling,” adds Hoult.
“He is grasping at straws and panicked.
Like, ‘Well, hang on, what am I going to do here?
Can I put out this fire?
What’s the next way?
Or how can this be spun?’
His brain’s going into overdrive along with panic.”
He grapples with whether or not he should reveal this truth, struggling with what is morally right.
Maybe this is a coincidence that this happened,'" Hoult says.
“I was always playing with the idea that he still believed that it could not have been him.
“That’s something that I feel like is probably deeply rooted within his memory.
And even he could probably deny because our memory is not memory.”
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“There was a scene that was cut,” notes Hoult.
And is that the right thing to do?
It’s nearly impossible.”
Juror #2is now in theaters.
