'Sell/Buy/Date' premiered at SXSW after initially drawing backlash when it was first announced.
“I know, right? Can you tell me — how did that happen?” she says. She’s actually known Streep for several years after meeting via human rights work. “She of course deeply gets it about playing people from different backgrounds and really trying to deeply imbue the character with as much humanity as anyone would want to be portrayed,” Jones says.
“It was such a fraught conversation about this topic that was public — people were concerned like, ‘you can’t talk about this topic if you don’t have experience in the sex industry yourself.’ It was like, ‘we’re going to cancel you and your movie,’” Jones says. “And Laverne is a deeply sensitive person like me and was like, ‘Sarah, I don’t know if I can deal with all this.’ And I was like, ‘I get it.
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