LOS ANGELES, April 16 (UPI) -- Lena Headey said her role in Ballistic, in theaters Friday, is a character seeking answers she's never going to find. Headey plays Nance, a mother whose son, Jesse (Jordan Kronis) dies in the military.
Because Nance works in a ballistics factory, she traces the bullet that killed Jesse. Writer/director Chad Faust shares in the film that American-made ammunition represents an estimated 30% of bullets found in American soldiers.
In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Headey said Nance is seeking the origin of Jesse's fatal bullet to avoid looking inward.
"For Nance, she's shattered by this deep guilt and self-hatred and still not brave enough to fully confront that in herself," Headey, 52, said. "So she's seeking some exterior answer or some regulatory answer that she's just not going to get because it's simple."
Headey already knew Faust personally and trusted him to tell the story of Nance's grief. A mother of two, Headey called losing a child her "everyday nightmare."
