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"Olivia Thirlby has discussed her role in Dredd. The actress stars as the telepathic Cassandra Anderson in Pete Travis&amp;#039;s upcoming reboot of the 1995 Sylvester Stallone-starrer Judge Dredd.   Cassandra shadows titular hero Dredd (Karl Urban) in the hopes of joining him in the ranks of the all-powerful Judges, who rule over the film&amp;#039;s futuristic city.  &amp;quot;She has a strong moral seat,&amp;quot; Thirlby told Hitfix. &amp;quot;She grew up in a slum, in a place where good people never saw the law come help them, and I think she grew up with this feeling that she would someday change that... and part of it might be revenge fantasy.  &amp;quot;She might hope that one day she will return empowered and be able to avenge poverty or avenge injustice in some abstract way, and so she is so committed to being a judge.&amp;quot; Thirlby went on to explain that Travis and the film&amp;#039;s producers were adamant that the character of Cassandra was not designed to look &amp;quot;sexy and buxom&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Most of the time in genres such as this one I think that the female characters are largely there to look hot... that was never the idea for Anderson and I think that&amp;#039;s what made me feel comfortable to play her.  &amp;quot;The character is so majorly badass in the script, and [it&amp;#039;s] really Alex Garland who wrote this amazing character.&amp;quot; She revealed that she even suggested Cassandra showed more cleavage, and was turned down on the basis of realism.  &amp;quot;The costume has a zipper on the front and I was saying, &amp;#039;Well can&amp;#039;t I keep it unzipped a little bit?&amp;#039;  &amp;quot;And they were saying, &amp;#039;No you can&amp;#039;t, because this film is not about making you look sexy and buxom, this film is realistic and you&amp;#039;re supposed to look like a riot cop. No riot cop would unzip their bulletproof vest down to show cleavage&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey in new &amp;#039;Dredd&amp;#039; pictures &amp;gt; &amp;#039;Dredd&amp;#039;: Alex Garland lines up sequels Dredd is released on September 7 in the UK, and September 21 in the US. Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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