The Purge franchise's fifth and final installment, The Forever Purge, aims to shake things up by breaking the franchise's cardinal rule. Directed by Everardo Gout, The Forever Purge starts with the annual Purge, which makes all crimes, including murder, legal for 12 hours. However, a hostile group decides to continue the Purge, causing the U.S. to fall into total anarchy. For a group of ranchers and a Mexican couple fleeing the cartel, getting to Mexico's border is their best shot at survival. While all The Purge films flirt with socio-political messages, The Forever Purge spotlights critical ongoing issues in America, including racism and immigration.

In an interview with CBR, The Forever Purge star Ana de la Reguera, who plays Adela in the upcoming film, discusses what attracted her to the role and what it was like to shoot the pulse-pounding "cage sequence" that was teased in the Blumhouse Productions' film's trailer.

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CBR: Obviously, the cage trap was used in the trailer for a reason. Given it's likely to be a fan-favorite moment, can you tell us about your experience shooting it behind the scenes?

Ana de la Reguera: That was one of the first scenes I shot. It took two days to shoot that. It was scary and uncomfortable, especially in the beginning because of the goat. I had to be very close to the goat and she had horns. The goat was moving, so I was afraid that I could be hurt by it or my eye would [hit it]. That was one thing.

Then, when I'm in [the cage], and they are putting the thing near my eye, that was [scary] too. It was special effects. So they built this cage, and they built this thing, and it had to be so close to my eye, but I was like, "If anything happens or it moves a centimeter, I can lose my eye." I wasn't that happy about it, but it's your job. You have to do it, but I was like, "Oh, shit." I had to scream for two days, so I was drinking a lot of tea. It was a very exhausting couple of days shooting that scene, definitely.

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Given The Forever Purges' many political messages, is there a specific theme you are glad was explored, especially as a Mexican actor yourself?

I did love that in the script. It was my favorite thing. It's a Purge movie, but it has all these messages about equality, racism and immigration. Also, casting us, me and Tenoch [Huerta] and Everardo [Gout] being a Mexican director, we bring more to the table and have a lot of input in things that we wanted to feel real. That's why I loved the script and wanted to be in the movie.

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Do you want to shout out a favorite scene that you're excited for the audience to see?

Oh, there are a lot of good scenes! There's one very long scene that we shot in the middle of the movie where we are in this trailer and we have to go down. It's like the peak of the Purge and [at] night. We are all together, but we get separated. There's a lot of special effects and shooting and explosions. So that scene was fun, but it was also scary to shoot. We shot that scene all night at Universal Studios, which was also a lot of fun because we could have a lot of special effects. So I'm excited about that sequence.

Directed by Everardo Gout and written/co-produced by James DeMonaco, The Forever Purge stars Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas, Cassidy Freeman, Leven Rambin, Alejandro Edda and Will Patton. The film arrives in theaters July 2. 

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