Shifting the argument about US news to a new thread? Time to drop it.

There's an interesting interview in the New York Times yesterday with Elizabeth Banks, who made the film Call Jane before Roe was overturned. That event thrusts this film into the spotlight (it's due to be released in late October).

“Call Jane” was obviously finished before the Dobbs decision came down. What does the new context around abortion mean for how the film might now be received? I have no idea how people are going to receive the movie. I will say that the Dobbs decision has solidified our commitment to getting audiences to see the movie in the right light, which is to say that there’s maybe a bigger responsibility on the movie that I didn’t feel when we were making it. I don’t want to give it too much import, but we have a midterm election happening right after the movie comes out and, well, my hope is that it invites Republican women voters to go vote. The Democratic women I know, we’ve done all we can do. I want the movie to inspire people to vote out Republicans who don’t support reproductive justice.