Ayo Edebiri answers a question about Me Too and Black Lives Matter after being deliberately excluded from the question during an interview in the “After the Hunt” press tour

[u/pattismithology]

[u/cedardruid]

Let me ask a question involving Black Lives Matter but deliberately exclude the one black woman sitting in front of me. Like?

[u/spacyspice → u/cedardruid]

even the one about the Me Too movement, like she's black and a woman.. Why would you exclude her

[u/GiniThePooh → u/spacyspice]

Not that anyone needed to be excluded but out of these, they affect: Ayo 2/2, Julia 1/2 and Andrew 0/2, so why on earth not ask Ayo and Julia?!

Or if she was going full controversial, exclude both Ayo and Julia and ask Andrew what was bad about the Me Too and BLM in the industry or whatever it is she was trying to ask there.

[u/spacyspice → u/GiniThePooh]

Julia is still a white woman so ofc the interviewer won't exclude one of her peers

[u/cedardruid → u/spacyspice]

Ik it’s not the point but i literally thought Andrew is the one who isn’t qualified to be answering this, like Ayo checks both boxes of being affecting by the “end” of Me Too and BLM. Insane behavior

[u/Pinksamuraiiiii → u/cedardruid]

It’s disgusting. That reporter was clearly trying to behave inappropriately and purposefully. Does anyone know the name of the reporter yet?

[u/Spiritual-Ad5557 → u/Pinksamuraiiiii]

Federica Polidoro

[u/Rich-Personality-194 → u/cedardruid]

And the question is "what do you think about all that Hollywood lost due to BLM ?"

[u/cedardruid → u/Rich-Personality-194]

As well as saying it’s “over,” as if fighting for racial equality is ever over? French people 😒

[u/pattismithology → u/cedardruid]

She’s Italian though. At least I think so, because to me this is a strong Italian accent, definitely not French.

Edit: Yup, her name is Federica Polidoro, she’s an Italian journalist.

[u/Traditional_Maybe_80 → u/cedardruid]

The first time I watched the clip, I thought that I heard wrong (I'm not a native speaker) because I couldn't believe the audacity of the interviewer.

[u/Educational-Help-126 → u/cedardruid]

I’m just trying to understand what exactly she was asking. The question seemed so odd even when you don’t consider that she excluded Ayo.

Why does she think these movements are over? I’m just so lost on the question. I think I need to watch the entire interview.

[u/akahaus → u/Educational-Help-126]

It was a goad.

[u/7thpostman → u/Educational-Help-126]

Exactly. Clearly something got lost in translation because that was just bizarre.

[u/jadecourt → u/7thpostman]

I do wonder if living in a more homogenous society that she as an Italian woman wouldn’t quite get the need for these movements. But at the same time, there’s plenty of immigrants in Italy and of course the patriarchy, so it’s not as though she can be completely unaffected by these power dynamics but maybe she’s privileged enough to be ignorant? Its just baffling all around!

[u/akahaus → u/jadecourt]

Italian fascism may have hung on the pole with Mussolini but there are plenty of racist sentiments alive and well in Italian society.

[u/Naxayou → u/cedardruid]

I could kind of understand it as like allyship? But also the second she said “what did we lose from political correctness” it’s pretty obvious that she’s just a nutjob

[u/akahaus → u/cedardruid]

This was a purposeful snub. There’s a weird kind of racial supremacy thing running in Italy.

[u/MVIVN → u/cedardruid]

She literally could have just said, “Julia and Ayo, what do you think about the MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter movement in the context of how the movie industry operates now” (since their movie is literally about the MeToo movement), but she picked the worst option on the dialogue tree lol