Indeed, the desire to act is never far from her heart or her way of being: she signs into rehab as "Nina," a distressing and distressed character who both is and is not herself.
Kakutani asks: "How did a distressing narrative filled with characters spouting hate speech... mutate into a redemptive novel associated with the civil rights movement, hailed, in the words of the former civil rights activist and congressman Andrew Young, for giving us 'a sense of emerging humanism and decency'"?
Speaking after its screening on Saturday, Winslet revealed her current circumstances precluded her watching a distressing scene in which her character suffers a miscarriage.
So when the characters do something distressing – run their car off the road, strangle their partner, die – it hits you harder than it would in a live action series that more closely resembles our reality, because you're not led to expect it.
The chronic character of the disease, the distressing symptoms, the recurrent polypoid lesions, and the absence of satisfactory treatment methods all make chronic paranasal sinusitis with nasal polyps a serious social, clinical, and economic problem.
Viewers also complained about the crudity of the second Hangover movie, while some felt the emergency Caesarean section performed on the lead character in Twilight was "gory and distressing".
More distressing is the perfunctory treatment of the black characters, who are poorly developed and at times marked by stereotypical traits.
"Red White & Blue," the latest feature from the British director Simon Rumley, builds a triptych of character studies into an engrossing — and profoundly distressing — tale of random connection and specific revenge.
"Yeah, it gives a real depth to every character," he agrees, and talks of Finnick's distressing fortunes in the third Hunger Games instalment, Mockingjay: Part 1, which is out in November.
Woodburne commented that she found the scenes distressing to play as she is so attached to her character.
But the playwrights take the time to establish characters that you care about, so the final confrontation is especially distressing.
