Oscar winner Diablo Cody is reflecting on the legacy of teen pregnancy dramedy “Juno.”The 2007 breakout film won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and landed nominations for picture and acting for lead star Elliot Page.
Yet later discourse centered the film as anti-choice for women’s reproductive rights, after Juno (Page) balks at an abortion clinic upon seeing protestors.Now, amid the Supreme Court overturn of Roe v.
Wade, Cody isn’t staying silent.“I am emphatically pro-choice and have been my entire life.
And it is important to me to make that clear,” Cody told The Hollywood Reporter.
“But, you know, I can understand why people would misunderstand the movie.
Looking back at it, I can see how it could be perceived as anti-choice.
And that horrifies me.”She continued, “When I look back on that time of writing the script, I feel wistful, because at the
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