For those who know Ariela Barer from the adorable weirdos she’s played on TV, ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ is a career-changing performance for the actor.
is not a CIA plant. But try telling that to some of the people reacting to the title of her new movie,“People see an activist movie and, without knowing anything are just like, ‘Oh, my God,’” she explains over the phone. “That’s just so funny to me. I feel like if you watched the movie, there’s no way you can actually believe that.”is far from government-produced propaganda. Instead, it’s a thriller that wears its radical politics proudly.
Barer, the daughter of a “hippie” mom from Mexico, had grown up around climate organizing and continued to pursue activism as she grew up. During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, she started thinking about property destruction as a “completely legitimate act of resistance.
As true to the movement as they wanted to be, Barer explains that she and her cowriters also wanted to make an entertaining movie. “At the end of the day, the best movie we could make is also going to be the best thing we could do politically,” she says. “Because ultimately, if this movie were boring—or overly didactic or too cringey or whatever—that does turn people off.”
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