In his only interview about “Promising Young Woman,” Molina discussed working with Fennell and Mulligan, how “Promising Young Woman” and “An Education” complement one another and why his first reading Fennell’s screenplay made him say, “What the fuck?!?” In the movie’s final chapter, after Cassie has been murdered by Al, he receives evidence Cassie has sent him of Nina’s rape - and a letter for him to get to the police in case she’s disappeared.
“The doctors called it a psychotic episode,” Jordan tells her in his tastefully decorated, but now filthy, living room. He ends up begging Cassie for forgiveness - and perhaps to her surprise, she gives it to him. (Spoiler alert! Don’t read further if you haven’t seen “Promising Young Woman.”)īut if Cassie has geared herself up for a fight with the attorney in their key scene together, what she finds when she arrives at his house shocks her: Jordan has been broken by the unscrupulous nature of his job, and is barely able to live with his guilt. In aggregate, “Promising Young Woman” makes an argument about the mechanisms that support rape culture - and Jordan embodies the shark-ish defense lawyer who intimidates victims. The film’s casting is precise, and if the actors playing the movie’s rapacious bros (Bo Burnham, Adam Brody, Max Greenfield and Chris Lowell) turn the mensch-y images of pasts roles on their heads, Molina’s lawyer character has different layers: He played Mulligan’s father in her 2009 breakout, “An Education,” another film that had predation and power dynamics on its mind. Cassie’s odyssey reunites her with the people she sees as complicit in Nina’s destruction - the school administrator (Connie Britton) who favored Nina’s rapist, Al Monroe their former friend (Alison Brie), who didn’t believe Nina had been raped and Al’s lawyer, Jordan ( Alfred Molina), who, as part of his job, “threatened and bullied” Nina until she dropped the case.
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