You wouldn’t expect a memoir with “F*king” in the title to be all unicorns and rainbows. Thus, it’s no surprise that comedian Leslie Jones’s new memoir, Leslie F*cking…
…. I want to make a movie for my fellow Reitman’s tried to walk back the comments after backlash on his remarks. He said on Twitter that what he said “came out wrong” and he thought the Jones all-female version was “amazing.”“Bringing up the idea of giving the movie ‘back to the fans’ was a pretty clear shout-out to all those losers who went after us for making an all-female [movie],” wrote Jones.role, noting many racist and sexist comments.
“Why are people being so evil to each other? How can you sit and type ‘I want to kill you.’ Who does that?” she wrote of the “… Sad keyboard warriors living in their mother’s basements hated the fact that this hallowed work of perfect art now featured — gasp! horror! — women in the lead roles,” wrote Jones. “Worst of all, of course, was that one of the lead characters was a Black woman. For some men, this was the final straw.
Jones deactivated her Twitter account soon after the film’s release, tweeting at the time: “I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart. All this ’cause I did a movie. You can hate the movie but the s— I got today … wrong.”
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