Laverne Cox
On Tuesday (Jan. 5), playwright and actress Sarah Jones announced that she was moving forward with a documentary titled
Sell/Buy/Date that would examine the sex industry, much like her critically acclaimed one-woman show of the same name.
For the feature project, which will mark the Tony Award-winning creator’s directorial debut, Jones revealed that she had enlisted longtime supporter Meryl Streep, Rashida Jones and Laverne Cox as executive producers along with the Ford Foundation, SFFILM Invest and the Harnisch Foundation.
The documentary, per the release, will tackle themes of inequality (criminal justice, race, sexism, poverty) through the lens of the debate around the sex industry. The documentary asks the question, Is sex work exploitative or empowering? The sex industry is hiding everywhere in plain sight during the pandemic, and impacting Black and brown women in particular. That said, many people support sex work, and some even argue those in the comme
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