He apologizes, in a halting manner, for letting the posh David (Peter Sarsgaard) prey on their class inferiority, enlisting them in his deception of Jenny. There’s a beautiful scene in that film, after the relationship has dissolved, with a distraught Molina outside his daughter's room at night. Twelve years ago, he played father to Mulligan in Lone Scherfig's An Education, in which she’s a schoolgirl named Jenny in early '60s London who's seduced by an older man. Both actors play it beautifully, but there’s an emotional tug that would not have been there had someone other than Molina been cast. It’s a short scene, and the last we see of Molina till the final montage. He makes a scary lunge towards Cassie, grabs her hands and asks if she'll forgive him. He tells her how they dug up dirt on Nina, how he can’t sleep out of guilt, how he had a psychotic break. Instead of denying his role, Green appears almost relieved to be confronted, saying, “Have you come here to hurt me?” Cassie asks if he wants that. Inside, Cassie gets to the point: Jordan Green, then a practicing attorney, helped get his client, another one of Cassie's batchmates, off the hook by attacking Nina on the stand. “I’m afraid it’s your day of reckoning.” His face falls. “It’s not about that,” she replies with a wintry smile. “I’m no longer practicing the law if that’s what you came for,” he says. ![]() He doesn’t recognize Cassie, and asks if he can help her. ![]() It opens, and we see a heavyset man with a grey bread, played by Alfred Molina. Behind the door will likely be her next target. She’s already exacted complicated revenge on the dean of the school and the classmate who shunned Nina when she asked for help. We don’t know whose home it is, but we do know that she's tracking down all the people responsible for the rape and subsequent suicide of her best friend, Nina, when they were in medical school. Just under an hour into Emerald Fennell's Promising Young Woman (2020), Cassie, played by Carey Mulligan, knocks on a door.
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