Smile spoilers follow.
Smile star Sosie Bacon has responded to the film's depressing ending.
After witnessing one of her psychiatric patients taking her own life in a horrific way, all while keeping a smile on her face, Dr Rose Cotter (Bacon) starts hallucinating.
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With her life quickly unravelling, she recruits her ex Joel (Scream's Kyle Gallner) and discovers a chain, where the person who kills themself passes the curse on to the witness.
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The only person to survive the chain had passed on the curse by brutally murdering someone in front of a witness.
In a bid to survive, Rose returns to her childhood home and faces her unresolved trauma regarding her mother's death, before returning to Joel's house.
But viewers expecting a happy ending had the rug ripped from under them, as it is revealed that she is hallucinating again, and the curse reveals its true monster form and crawls inside her.
Joel rushes in to save her, just as she is setting herself on fire with a smile on her face.
Speaking about the grim ending, Bacon told Variety: "I don’t think I would have done it if it had a happy ending.
"That would have been so unsatisfying to me. It was so dark. For it to just be okay would’ve been sad.
"The positive part is that she did not go for the option where she would’ve had to actually hurt somebody else. She didn’t really have control over it. I think that’s pretty honest."
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She continued: "A lot of times people really try their best and do everything that they can, but they don’t have control over the outcome.
"She tried to defeat it, which I think is really strong. But it was heartbreaking that she ended up passing it to the only person who really cares about her.
"Yes, it’s tragic, but I think it’s saying that sometimes, even if we try and do everything, trauma can overcome us."
Smile is out in cinemas now.
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Catherine is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, and was the site's News Editor between 2018 and 2024. Prior to that, she worked at OK! Online, and has interviewed a slew of celebrities across her career in entertainment news, including Tom Hanks, Cheryl and Noel Fielding. Catherine also has specialist knowledge in all things drag, interviewing a huge portion of RuPaul’s Drag Race stars, and getting her own drag makeover for Channel 4's show Drag SOS. LinkedIn
