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Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson hope A House of Dynamite<\/a><\/em> teaches its audience about the importance of choosing elected officials who will do their utmost to protect and serve.<\/p>\n The Netflix film, which focuses on what could happen if a rogue nuclear bomb is headed towards America, puts the politicians and officials making up Washington, D.C. on alert. Trey Mangum, Blavity\/Shadow and Act Managing Editor, sat with Elba, Ferguson and other cast members about how they approached their roles.<\/p>\n \u201cThis film is gonna educate people about the process of what it means to vote someone into power,\u201d Elba<\/a> said, who plays the President of the United States in the film. \u201cUltimately, in this film, when it comes to a nuclear situation, that person has sole authority. But he [Elba\u2019s character] has sole authority by gathering all the information from people that work in situation rooms and the people that are closer to the source of the information.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUltimately, he has to make that decision based on it, on what he\u2019s learned, and I\u2019m hoping that the film really gives people that perspective,\u201d he continued. \u201cCause for me, after I made this film, it really opened up Pandora\u2019s Box for me. I\u2019d say, \u2018Wow. I didn\u2019t realize how fragile we are as human beings. I mean, completely fragile. The House of Dynamite <\/em>actually has a box of matches in it. That\u2019s crazy to me, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n Ferguson, who plays Captain Olivia Walker, also talked about how officials have to continue living despite dealing with deadly situations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very easy to look at these people as highly trained, professional officers within a situation. And I think [writer Noah Oppenheim] did it so well. And I think starting off the film in a home environment that we can relate to, that gives us more emotion to a scenario, to looking at these people as human beings with cracks and flaws and fears. Yet they have to suppress all of that to just do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd in different rooms, we educate, we give the President information in real time,\u201d she continued. \u201cYou know, I\u2019m a switchboard basically, but the highest level, I decide what the president needs, who the president needs to talk to, and if the person isn\u2019t there within 18 minutes, who can I get on that he will need to talk to so that he can then make the decision to retaliate or not. It\u2019s under pressure, and these people are there the second [they are needed], and they train 400 times a year for this. The President isn\u2019t trained once.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch the full interviews with Elba, Ferguson and fellow cast members Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos and Jason Clarke, below.<\/p>\n Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, A House of Dynamite<\/em> is now in select theaters ahead of its Netflix Oct. 24 debut.<\/p>\n The post \u2018A House Of Dynamite\u2019 Stars Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson And More On The Fragility Of Humanity In Netflix Film<\/a> appeared first on Blavity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson hope A House of Dynamite teaches its audience about the importance of choosing elected officials who will do their utmost to protect and serve. 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Rebecca Ferguson on officials dealing with deadly situations<\/h2>\n