The 'Darkest Hour' actress claimed in 2014 she was stepping away from her film career, and though she meant it at the time, she eventually realised she couldn't quit for good. She said: "When I did Electra on stage [in 2015], which was very physical, somebody asked me if I was too old, which shocked me at the time. Kristin was tempted back to movies by Sally Potter's farce 'The Party' and Joe Wright's 'The Darkest Hour' and recently admitted the two projects "sucked" her back into her film career. I thought, I can just do these two.