Ayo Edebiri is getting praise for her response to an uninformed interviewer, asking about her latest project, a film that takes on sexual assault.
During promotion for the film "After the Hunt" at the Venice Film Festival, an ArtsLife TV interviewer asked her costars, Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, about "what we lost in the 'politically correct' era" and "what we have to expect in Hollywood after the #MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done."
The framing of the question immediately caused confusion and surprise. Garfield turned to Roberts and Edebiri, and then Roberts asked the Italian interviewer to repeat the question and added, "with your sunglasses on, I can't tell which of us you're talking to." The interviewer then said the question was for Roberts and Garfield.
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Roberts says, "It's not done," before a stunned Edebiri interjects. "I know that that's not for me, and I don't know if it's purposeful if it's not for me, but I just am curious. I don't think it's done," she said. "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 really active for a reason, because this world's really charged. And that work isn't finished at all.
