Joelle's Q-interview on the master
‘The other had the camera bolted down inside a stroller or bassinet. I wore an incredible white floor-length gown of some sort of flowing material and leaned in over the camera in the crib and simply apologized.’ […] ‘Apologized. As in my lines were various apologies. “I’m so sorry. I’m so terribly sorry. I am so, so sorry. Please know how very, very, very sorry I am.” For a real long time. I doubt he used it all, I strongly doubt he used it all, but there were at least twenty minutes of permutations of “I’m sorry.” ’
Context
Scene two of two: the camera physically installed in the crib, the viewer cast as infant, and the entire script a permutation-set of apology. This is the production side of n.80's "weird wobble-lensed maternal 'I'm-so-terribly-sorry' monologue-scene" — twenty-plus minutes of a mother-figure in flowing white saying sorry down into the lens. Asked (evidently) about the veil, she answers "Not exactly. Not exactly veiled." — the woman the film's victims die watching was, on set, something the veil vocabulary doesn't quite cover.