"I think it's interesting that the story was written 12 years ago by a woman about men — [and] it's being made now. It seems very timely," said Sanders. "When we were editing the film, just every single day there'd be a story about a man abusing power. And what happens when you have power over another person and how far you can go in a direction that you may not have intended is definitely what we explored. It's very perfectly timely."