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Jennifer Lawrence Tells Off Trolls Calling Her ‘Not Educated’ Enough to ‘Talk About Politics,’ Says Family Encouraged Her Not to Produce Taliban Doc

Jennifer Lawrence says her family encouraged her not to produce the new Taliban documentary "Bread and Roses."

The documentary, directed by Sahra Mani, premiered at Cannes earlier this year and follows three women as they fight to recover their autonomy amid Taliban oppression following the fall of Kabul in August 2021. “My first reaction was to do what the Taliban did not want us to do, which was to give access and facilities to the people on the ground to capture what was happening in real time,” Lawrence recently told “CBS Mornings” about producing the documentary. Variety gave “Bread and Roses” a positive review out of Cannes, calling it “righteously angry” and writing: “This film tackles an urgent and timely topic through a committed on-the-ground perspective, capturing the experience of three people, Zahra, Taranom and Sharifa, whose lives as they knew them were effectively ended when the Taliban seized control of Kabul in 2021.”

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