1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,050 2 00:00:00,050 --> 00:00:01,817 RICKY CAMILLERI: And to have to grapple with the idea 3 00:00:01,817 --> 00:00:06,330 that while you're searching for your missing child, the news-- 4 00:00:06,330 --> 00:00:09,540 the police are not just telling you that you don't matter, 5 00:00:09,540 --> 00:00:11,850 but they're telling you that they're not an innocent-- 6 00:00:11,850 --> 00:00:12,430 MIRIAM SHOR: Oh no, they're complicit. 7 00:00:12,430 --> 00:00:13,110 RICKY CAMILLERI: --and you're not an innocent. 8 00:00:13,110 --> 00:00:13,950 So therefore-- MIRIAM SHOR: Yeah. 9 00:00:13,950 --> 00:00:16,073 RICKY CAMILLERI: --as much as a person would fight against that 10 00:00:16,073 --> 00:00:18,030 and be like, that's not true, that seeps in, 11 00:00:18,030 --> 00:00:22,650 and that then in turn creates a tragic amount, I think, 12 00:00:22,650 --> 00:00:25,830 of probably self-doubt and [? consciousness. ?] 13 00:00:25,830 --> 00:00:28,540 MIRIAM SHOR: Well, look, no parent is perfect. 14 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:29,440 RICKY CAMILLERI: Of course. 15 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:30,780 MIRIAM SHOR: All parents have to make 16 00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:35,320 choices that are difficult, and these women were no exception. 17 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,840 They made some very difficult choices. 18 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,940 They had difficulties in their lives that were, you know, 19 00:00:40,940 --> 00:00:43,020 to some might even seem insurmountable, 20 00:00:43,020 --> 00:00:43,980 and yet they had to. 21 00:00:43,980 --> 00:00:45,720 They had-- their lives just had to continue. 22 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,860 They had to go on. 23 00:00:46,860 --> 00:00:50,370 And the guilt that comes along with the choices 24 00:00:50,370 --> 00:00:52,440 that you make as a parent, as a mother, 25 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,830 is ever present even if you are the perfect mother. 26 00:00:55,830 --> 00:00:58,470 So, you know, that line where she says, "I'm her mother. 27 00:00:58,470 --> 00:01:01,350 It's all on me," means I put it all on me. 28 00:01:01,350 --> 00:01:02,370 You put it all on me. 29 00:01:02,370 --> 00:01:05,580 Everybody puts it all on me, and I can't escape that. 30 00:01:05,580 --> 00:01:08,280 So she's-- you know, Mari Gilbert and the character I 31 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,430 play, Lorraine, and all of the women involved in this have 32 00:01:11,430 --> 00:01:13,800 to grapple with, sure, their own senses 33 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,020 of guilt and how could I not have 34 00:01:16,020 --> 00:01:18,270 protected this person I love? 35 00:01:18,270 --> 00:01:21,240 But when you go to the authorities whose job is 36 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,630 supposedly to protect and to serve 37 00:01:24,630 --> 00:01:29,010 and they shake off any obligation 38 00:01:29,010 --> 00:01:33,150 and treat you like you're less than a human, 39 00:01:33,150 --> 00:01:35,877 that's when you start to feel enraged 40 00:01:35,877 --> 00:01:37,110 when you read about it, which was how 41 00:01:37,110 --> 00:01:38,110 I felt when I read the script. 42 00:01:38,110 --> 00:01:39,620 And that's when someone like Mari Gilbert 43 00:01:39,620 --> 00:01:42,120 and like all these women who bonded together and refused 44 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,600 to be silenced-- 45 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:46,230 you know, they really showed that you can 46 00:01:46,230 --> 00:01:48,640 be heard if you just persist. 47 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:51,120 And I'm glad I had some small part in sort 48 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:52,470 of bringing that to light. 49 00:01:52,470 --> 00:01:56,120 [MUSIC PLAYING] 50 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,000