In January 2021, it was announced that the Tony-award winning performer Sarah Jones was due to make her directorial debut with a documentary about and inspired by her Off-Broadway one-woman show “Sell/Buy/Date,” in which she explored different characters’ relationships to the sex industry. The splashy announcement also included that Meryl Streep, Rashida Jones and Laverne Cox were set to serve as executive producers on the film. (Streep previously produced Jones’ Tony-winning production “Bridge & Tunnel.”)
Pretty big deal for a New York stage performer who got her start performing slam poetry at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. But the star-studded announcement drew outrage online from vocal sex workers and advocates, and within a day, Cox had pulled out of the project. (Rashida Jones would also later depart.) So what do you do when your film gets cancelled for its ideology before it’s even been made?
Jones went meta with it,...
Pretty big deal for a New York stage performer who got her start performing slam poetry at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. But the star-studded announcement drew outrage online from vocal sex workers and advocates, and within a day, Cox had pulled out of the project. (Rashida Jones would also later depart.) So what do you do when your film gets cancelled for its ideology before it’s even been made?
Jones went meta with it,...
- 10/13/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
The Good Doctor‘s Sheila Kelley dabbles in a very different kind of healing as one of the central figures in Strip Down, Rise Up, Netflix’s upcoming documentary about the restorative power of pole dance.
Premiering Friday, Feb. 5, and directed by Academy Award–nominated director/producer Michèle Ohayon, the vérité-style film follows a diverse group of women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and body types, who reclaim themselves through pole dance either as a sport, an art, or as a way of unlocking their body — in order to heal from trauma, release shame and restore self acceptance.
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Premiering Friday, Feb. 5, and directed by Academy Award–nominated director/producer Michèle Ohayon, the vérité-style film follows a diverse group of women of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and body types, who reclaim themselves through pole dance either as a sport, an art, or as a way of unlocking their body — in order to heal from trauma, release shame and restore self acceptance.
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- 1/15/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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