Did you know they have anti-wokeness crusaders internationally? Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, and Julia Roberts shut down leading questions from a journalist on the Italian press tour for After the Hunt. A video posted by Italian site ArtsLife TV shows a reporter asking Garfield and Roberts what “to expect in Hollywood after the MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done.” Roberts, dumbfounded, asked a clarifying question. “Can you repeat that?” she asked. “And with your sunglasses on, I can’t tell which of us you’re talking to.” The reporter repeated that the question was for Garfield and Roberts — not Edebiri — and was what will Hollywood be like now that Me Too and Black Lives matter “are done” and “if we lost something with the politically correct era.”
Edebiri then interjected. “I know that that’s not for me, and I don’t know if it’s purposeful if it’s not for me,” she said. “I don’t think it’s done, I don’t think it’s done at all. Hashtags might not be used as much but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people every day that’s beautiful, important work. That’s not finished, that’s really, really active for a reason because this world’s really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all.” Garfield backed her up, saying both “movements are still absolutely alive.”
Edebiri added that media attention may skew people’s perception of what is or is not happening on the ground. “Maybe if there’s not mainstream coverage in the way that there might have been, daily headlines in the way that it might have been eight or so years ago, but I don’t think it means that the work is done. That’s what I would say.” That’s what she’d say if she was asked. But she wasn’t asked.
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A press junket gone wrong.
