Mumbai: Can love be truly blind, even when you jump in with eyes-wide open? Lionsgate Play brings you another compelling watch, with its latest psychological-thriller, Alice, Darling streaming exclusively on the platform in India on 26 May. Starring Anna Kendrick in a titular role alongside Charlie Carrick, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Wunmi Mosaku, the film follows Alice, through an abusive relationship where she’s forced to see her boyfriend for who he really is. When her best friends stage an intervention, an unwitting Alice faces the harsh reality she was desperately running away from. Carefully touching upon the subject of emotional abuse and domestic violence, Alice, Darling is a revelation on the masked and hidden issues of society.

Sharing what drew her to the film, actor Anna Kendrick said, “There was something about Alana’s writing that felt so poetic and restrained. I was really interested in telling a story about a toxic, abusive relationship that didn’t look the way that it’s always kind of been portrayed in movies. And the way that Alana wrote this woman’s inner turmoil, and the subtle, but very rewarding journey that she goes on, very much intrigued me.”

Talking about abuse, Kendrick further added, “I feel like everybody’s been touched by this kind of confusing, very insidious abuse - whether it’s happened to you or a friend of yours, you’ve seen someone in your life start to shrink and start to look and feel suffocated, and you’re not sure what’s going on. It’s this very unsettling feeling - you don’t know what you can say, how you can help.”