Interviewer EXCLUDED Ayo Edebiri From #METOO & #BLM, Only Adresses The White People Actors (Andrew Garfield & Julia Roberts

Ayo Edebiri Interview moment

Ayo Edebiri responded to an awkward interview question about the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, where she was excluded from being asked the question by an Italian journalist, by saying the movements are not "done at all". The journalist asked co-stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield what to expect in Hollywood "after the #MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done," but not Edebiri, leading to a viral moment where Edebiri corrected the interviewer, stating that the work of these movements is "beautiful, important work" that is "not finished at all".

The way Andrew Garfield's Peter Tingle kicked in when the question was first asked was amazing. He immediately looks towards the ladies in the room. Who, I'm assuming he felt that since the question was both about two movements for black people and women, it was appropriate for him to let them take the lead.

Then came Julia, she was the other person involved in this questioning amd and even she was confuse,d giving the interview of the opportunity to possibly correct herself. Pointing out that there were sunglasses being worn and asking if she was the one who was being referenced only by the interviewer.

It was a respectable question, and it also gave the interviewer the opportunity to adjust. But Federica Polidoro only doubled down and asked again directly to the two white people in the room, totally excluding the only black person. It was also doubly insulting since both the Me Too movement and the black lives matter movement were started by black women. Miss Roberts, having the foresight to read the room just as well as Andrew was and figuring out what was possibly really happening, immediately handed it off to Ayo.

Mayo's response was brilliant; it was calm, and it was the smoothest clap back that I believe the interviewer both deserved and didn't deserve simultaneously. She did not deserve that graceful of a response but we all know that black women do not have the luxury of clapping back without it being overly scrutinized as being ghetto or typical of the black community, and Ayo knew exactly how to play the situation.

The Italian journalist defended her line of questioning, stating in a statement that the backlash she received was a form of cyberbullying.

She maintained that her intention was not to insult or be racist, noting her own multicultural background.