Vanessa Kirby is getting a lot of Oscar buzz for her work in the Netflix movie Pieces of a Woman and she’s opening up about one of the pivotal scenes in the film.
The movie opens with a 30-minute labor scene and she discussed how she prepared for it during a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “I started watching everything I could find.
Endless documentaries, home birth videos, but everything was so sanitized; everything was so edited,” Vanessa said. Vanessa ended up shadowing an obstetrician and witnessing a live birth. “I watched her for six hours go through a really difficult labor, no painkillers, forceps.
It got really, really difficult…I watched her go on a completely lone journey, like an odyssey, through the most primal, almost
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