“I think if I had read it with somebody else or somebody else came to me with this script, I wouldn’t naturally go, ‘Oh, I’m definitely Mercy,’ because I related in a lot of ways to Lucy as well, but our dynamic in general. “I read the script, and it was like, ‘Obviously, I’m Mercy,’” Mara said.
While appearances might indicate that Mercy is on the straight and narrow, her intense interest in Lucy dictates otherwise. It’s an unlikely place for a meet cute, but that’s where Lucy first comes across Mercy (Mara), who is, of course, on the other side of the picket line. She spends all of her time with her older sister Martha (Amy Seimetz) and younger brother Benjamin (Charlie Shotwell), as they take an RV across the Midwest, protesting capital punishment outside of prisons.
The dark indie follows Page’s Lucy, a downtrodden, tomboyish young woman whose entire life has been eclipsed by the fact her father is on death row for having allegedly killed her mother. My Days Of Mercy is special, though, and Page and Mara are extremely proud of what their partnership produced. In fact, Page was doing it for two films then, as she also stars in the zombie thriller The Cured.
It was only the beginning of the Toronto International Film Festival when we spoke, but both Page and Mara are seasoned actresses who have done this promotional song and dance before. “I thought that it was a unique love story because there are other things and other conflicts happening in both of their lives,” Mara told me in September, as she sat across from friend and onscreen love interest Page, as well as My Days Of Mercy director Tali Shalom Ezer. When they were sent Joe Barton’s screenplay for My Days of Mercy, it stood out from the rest. Ellen Page and Kate Mara were looking for a project to work on together, but they wanted it to be a love story.
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