https://youtu.be/6wWigjJlH8Q

Big girls don’t cry—they kick butt.

It’s an empowering example Brit Marling and Hailee Steinfeld brought to the big screen as gun-toting sisters in feminist western “The Keeping Room.”

“We’re just not used to seeing women lead action on screen and do it in a believable way,” Marling tells Made in Hollywood during an interview along her costar Steinfeld.

The drama follows the sisters and their slave, played by Muna Otaru, as they struggle to defend themselves and their southern farmhouse against drunken, rouge Union soldiers amid the tail-end of the Civil War.

Filming without men around made the action a visceral experience for the actresses.

“It was intense just the three of us being locked in the keeping room together,” Marling recalls. “The emotions, the energy and that space—and you realize that you’ve never been on set with just women before.”

Of course, shooting in a small space wasn’t the only challenge.

Learning to deliver lines with a bygone southern accent was tough too. “They’re all these sounds we had to practice, like the ‘what’ and the ‘where,’ Marling says, “because we were trying to do a really believable 1865 version of a North Carolina- South Carolina accent, which is really different than what you’d think.”

Costarring Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller, "The Keeping Room" is in theaters now. Watch the trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LCgZ9AzwaM