is clearly an empowered-female story but we can also do something new in this reimagining, make it a little more muscular, stronger, with touch of Ridley Scott."Vulture character Tally Craven, however, is introduced as a young witch who is quick to empathize; she watches the news of The Spree's recent attack on TV and is visibly disturbed. That motivates her to join up when it's her time to enlist, even though she comes from a matrifocal community ("No dudes... like ever") and a mother who thinks she's just "in a hurry to get [herself] killed." Though she's close with her family and the conscientious objectors in her home commune, she wants to help, "to do something good" in the world — that carries over into her romanticization of the witch military and the sisterhood she expects to find at Fort Salem. Mark Schafer/ © STX Entertainment /Courtesy Everett Collection "There's Abigail, who's very much this alpha leader despite being in the shadow of the mother, who's basically military royalty and [has] all the pressure to uphold the name, and she represents the body. And then there's Tally, who I would say is like the truest believer in the cause and in the sisterhood and this unity and just basically everything that Fort Salem stands for, and she's the heart.