And now, eight years after Detroit, Bigelow is back with a fictional story in A House Of Dynamite – but one that feels all-too-real, and approached with her usual signature rigourousness. “With The Hurt Locker I was really interested in understanding the methodology of the [Iraqi] insurgency,” she tells Empire. With Zero Dark Thirty, the question was: why did the hunt for Osama bin Laden take ten years? Could A House Of Dynamite prompt a rethink in how the world has chosen to arm itself? ‘Oh, good, I’m very well defended, but we’re all dead.’ No, that doesn’t work!” Here’s hoping A House Of Dynamite stays firmly in the region of fiction.