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‘The Assessment’ Stars Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander on How the Sci-Fi Parenthood Film Makes You ‘Reflect on Your Own Innate Rights’

Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander spoke with Variety about filming 'The Assessment' and how nature shaped the production.

While filming the dystopian indie drama “ The Assessment,” stars Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander found nature to be a crucial touchpoint for understanding its strange, mesmerizing sci-fi world. They soon find that the assessment literally requires the couple to demonstrate their parenting skills, as Virginia acts like an actual child that needs to be bathed and fed. Olsen and Vikander spoke with Variety via Zoom about filming in Spain’s Canary Islands on Tenerife, how the natural environment shaped the production and figuring out the characters’ physicality.

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