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The 36-year-old, also known for television
series "The Tudors" and "The Hunger Games" films, stars as blind
pianist Sofia, who hears her upstairs neighbor being murdered,
leading her into a dark world of war criminals.
Dormer started the script in 2009 but says things have changed
on screen since then with female-lead films in movies such as
"Black Swan" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"."It was pre
this revolution we've had in wanting fully fleshed out
three-dimensional flawed women as our protagonists. I think we
can, storytelling wise, see that wave - slower than we would
have wanted but it's happening," she said in an interview.
"Behind the camera is a much more pertinent question ... If it
took me seven years to get my independent movie shot it's ...
the female writers, directors cinematographers who are trying to
get their stuff made. Now that we won't see for years."
Women made up 18 percent of writers, directors, producers,
editors and cinematographers who worked on the 250 biggest
grossing movies in the United States last year, little changed
from 1998, according to the Center for the Study of Women in
Television and Film.
Dormer shares the film's writing credits with her fiance Anthony
Byrne, who directs. Both are producers.
Asked about working behind the camera for the first time, Dormer
told Reuters: "It's just a completely different experience from
being a gun for hire.
"I'm concerned and invested in everybody doing their job in that
room which is a completely different thing to being an actor.
"To be perfectly honest I love the team sport element of it and
I got a real kick out of it."
(Reporting by Sarah Mills; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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