'Questions like that are so hard for me, the importance of women. And also, I think that she's, in that final scene, a true avenue of some of the pathos of loss.' So she's a catalyst for a lot of the action and a lot of the drama and a lot of mistakes. But my character, Celeste, holds the secret and it's torture to hold that secret. A film without women isn't real and in this particular film, Laura's character plays such a very different role than my character does.
Harden, who plays the wife of molestation victim Dave (Tim Robbins), said it was the same as 'the importance of women in life. So, where is there room for women in this story? Laura Linney and Marcia Gay Harden had the task of finding that.
One guy was molested as a child, one guy lost his daughter, one guy has a marriage in shambles as he's investigating the murder of his friend's daughter with his other friend as the lead suspect. Mystic River is a story about men and their psychological problems.
