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Laverne Cox on How Promising Young Woman Examines the 'Nice Guy' Trope

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Promising Young Woman, Carey Mulligan’s seemingly wasted Cassandra is in the back of a rideshare with a guy she met at a club.

He’s promised to deliver her home to safety but instead takes the woman who can barely walk up to his place for a nightcap. Once there, Cassie, suddenly very alert, flutters open her eyes at an opportune moment and thwarts her would-be assaulter.

Without spoiling the plot of the film from writer-director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve), it can be revealed that Promising Young Woman is a revenge movie that is also a far cry from the assault/revenge movies of the 1970s like Death Wish in which an avenging male lead goes after a deranged predator.

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