Hope’s willingness to deal with Cassie like a fellow grownup additionally stems from her frustration together with her personal mom, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), whose greatest flaw is could also be her failure to deal with Hope as an grownup able to dealing with robust info. Janet has declined to inform Hope something about her time down within the Quantum Realm, and her lie that there have been no different individuals down there permits Hope, Cassie, and Hank (Michael Douglas) to unwittingly construct a entice and stroll the entire household proper into it. Janet’s incapacity to be straight together with her personal daughter makes Hope decided to at all times play it straight with Cassie, even when meaning giving her maybe slightly an excessive amount of freedom for her age. 

“It is that factor the place you need to do the precise reverse factor of what your mother and father did to harm you,” Lilly defined. “And so she actually lets Cassie in and he or she provides her a seat on the desk and he or she trusts her with info that possibly she should not, that possibly is past Cassie. However the movie will inform us whether or not or not Cassie ought to have been trusted with all of that.”

It is a difficult query, in fact. Whereas 18 is technically an grownup, it is also fairly younger nonetheless, possibly too younger for somebody to be trusted with such harmful, superior expertise (Cassie is not even sufficiently old to purchase a beer in most U.S. states). However as your complete premise of “Quantumania” makes clear, not trusting your child with something can put them in much more hazard.