Late last month, Evan Rachel Wood appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to publicly detail her story of surviving sexual assault, rape and domestic violence at the hands of two abusers .

If you cant hear the whole truth, you will never know true empathy, Wood told the congressional committee as she sat alongside advocates from the anti-sexual violence organization RISE and the Rape Abuse Incest National Network (RAINN). I believe in the saying If we have to live through it, then you should have to hear it.

Wood will appear Friday before a different kind of audience and in a starkly different role. As the star of the new movie Allure, which opens March 16, she plays a former survivor turned abuser who becomes obsessed with, seduces and emotionally abuses a teenage girl.