'Antebellum' may be billed as a fictional horror film, but its themes don't stray far from reality.
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"We were both indoctrinated with white supremic delusion," Malone says."It's not like building a character that exists over there. It felt like there was some kind of need of catharsis for my own 'white history' to be able to embody this role of the oppressor accurately, with compassion but with not an erasive history."
"It's not such a horror movie that we're thinking, 'Oh, my God, that would never happen.' What makes it that much more horrific is that we're playing on the world today and the world that we see," Huston says.
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