Kate Bosworth will soon be seen as tormented housewife Amy Sumner in Sony Screen Gems’ upcoming remake of iconic filmmaker Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion thriller Straw Dogs. The 28-year-old starlet recently spoke to Black Book magazine about the film and its strokeworthy harrowing rape scene with Alexander Skarsgård.

I told Alex not to worry about me, to just go for it. I said, I need you to lose yourself in this moment. And it was actually violent. He’s a huge guy.

When he was ripping off my clothes in front of a room filled with men, even though I knew it was make-believe, it was still incredibly violating and terrifying. The panic you see flooding me in that rape scene is real.

The Straw Dogs remake is directed by Rob Lurie (The Last Castle) and finds Amy Sumner, a fading Hollywood actress, and her scrawny screenwriter husband (James Marsden) moving down South where they discover that Amy’s hillbilly ex (Skarsgård) longs to reconnect with her vagina.

The film forces its way into theaters on Sept. 16.