“It felt rare.”

“She just had that level of commitment.”

For the film, Bravo wanted to explore her as a more three-dimensional character.

Cherry

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“I was so worried personally about doing justice to the story line of addiction,” Bravo says.

“I didn’t want to glamorize it in any way.”

Despite the film’s weighty subject, Bravo says she and Holland tried to keep things light between takes.

“It’s a very heavy story,” she says.

Cherryis in select theaters Friday and on Apple TV+ March 12.

A version of this story appears in the March issue ofEntertainment Weekly,on newsstands now andavailable here.