{"id":120611,"date":"2025-08-30T21:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/julie-roberts-says-he-sexual-assault-film-is-meant-to-provoke-debate\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:04:24","slug":"julie-roberts-says-he-sexual-assault-film-is-meant-to-provoke-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/julie-roberts-says-he-sexual-assault-film-is-meant-to-provoke-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Roberts says he sexual assault film is meant to provoke debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VENICE, Aug 30 \u2013 US actress Julia Roberts has said \u201cwe\u2019re losing the art of conversation in humanity\u201d, as she premiered a new film about sexual assault which is likely to divide audiences.<\/p>\n<p>After The Hunt, which has just launched at the Venice Film Festival, follows a student at Yale University who accuses a college professor of rape.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the student\u2019s nor teacher\u2019s version of events is presented as entirely credible, and the film casts doubt on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts acknowledged the movie would provoke debate, commenting: \u201cWe are challenging people to have conversation and to be excited by that or to be infuriated by that, it\u2019s up to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of old arguments that get rejuvenated in this movie in a way that does create conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts plays college professor Alma, who is caught between a star pupil named Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), and one of her fellow teachers and friends, Hank (Andrew Garfield).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENICE, Aug 30 \u2013 US actress Julia Roberts has said \u201cwe\u2019re losing the art of conversation in humanity\u201d, as she premiered a new film about sexual assault which is likely to divide audiences. After The Hunt, which has just launched at the Venice Film Festival, follows a student at Yale University who accuses a college [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}