Kate Mara asks if ‘A Teacher’ deserves forgiveness
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- In FX's new drama, A Teacher, Kate Mara plays Claire Wilson, a high school advanced placement English instructor who has an affair with her student, Eric Walker (Nick Robinson). Mara said she was interested in exploring how the character could redeem herself. "The big question for me was: Is her behavior worthy of forgiveness?" Mara said during a recent Television Critics Association panel. "It's obviously for the audience to decide and to talk about." Advertisement Show creator Hannah Fidell based A Teacher on her feature film of the same name, from 2013, which also explored the premise of a teacher-student relationship. Fidell, a survivor of sexual assault, said she worked with the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network and legal experts to create the co...
