Vanessa Kirby Says Pieces Of A Woman Was Her ‘Biggest Challenge’

Vanessa Kirby opened up about her process playing the lead role in the latest Pieces Of A Woman movie.

The 32-year-old actress plays mother Martha Weiss who mourns the death of her baby girl in labor in Kornel Mundruczo’s drama.

Vanessa de la Couronne admitted that she felt a tremendous sense of ‘responsibility’ to tell a story rarely shown on screen.

She said: ‘Looking back, I knew my responsibility was to honor the women who told me their stories of losing a child at any stage of pregnancy – or right after they were born. .

“ The whole time I was filming I felt connected to them and like it was for them because their story hadn’t been told before …

“My biggest challenge was trying to embody and do justice to the feelings of the women I spoke to. That’s all I focused on. Getting to the grieving level was a huge challenge as I don’t have children but wanted to accurately represent their experiences.

Vanessa is “ very proud ” of the finished film – which also stars Shia LaBeouf and Molly Parker – and believes viewers will be able to relate to the “ universal emotion ” of grief.

She added, “ It’s a heartbreak film, a very universal emotion – and yet the film has an incredibly intimate quality. I am very proud of it.

“To be honest, it was one of the best filming experiences of my life.”

Vanessa admitted that filming her character’s work was emotionally draining.

She said: ‘I wanted to make a birth scene as authentic as possible.

“I felt a duty to every mom to try to portray this on screen in a realistic and raw way.

“ After filming I was so emotionally affected that I remember Kornel giving me this massive hug for about three minutes as I stood there sobbing.

“I remember thinking: I have to keep this, I have to keep this feeling.