She can't vocalize it, so I couldn't ask the character to. And if you did crack open Irene's head and asked her to give a monologue, I think it would be a lot of lies, honestly. [...] The only way to do it filmically, to try and let the audience slowly realize the subtlety of what's going on, is to drip-feed them these gestures. Hands, longing, how Irene perceives the world, the fuzziness of it, the unreliability of it, then of course the black and white, which is the biggest irony of all, because nothing is ever black and white.
“I signed on to do something that was a substantial role. She wasn’t entirely the villain — there have been several phases of this — but I signed on to do something very different to what I ended up doing. Halfway through shooting they were basically like, ‘What would you think if you just got shot out of nowhere?’ I was meant to be in the movie until the end… I grappled with them for awhile and then I said, ‘Well, you have to give me a decent death scene and you have to give me one more scene with Iron Man,’ which Robert Downey Jr. supported me on.” (x)
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