Jennifer Lawrence Says Family “Encouraged Me Not” to Produce “Dangerous” Taliban Doc ‘Bread and Roses’

Jennifer Lawrence is sharing why she felt compelled to produce the Taliban-focused documentary Bread and Roses, regardless of her household encouraging her not to get entangled with the movie.

The doc, which begins streaming Friday on Apple TV+, follows Afghanistan’s ladies’s experiences beneath the Taliban since they took management of Kabul in August 2021. Sahra Mani, who directed the movie, lately stated on CBS Mornings that the Taliban rule has been so extreme on Afghan ladies that they will’t go to work, sing, play music, go to a restaurant, purchase meals or stroll the road and not using a chaperone.

“My first reaction when watching that [Taliban takeover] was to do what the Taliban did not want us to do, which was to give access and facilities to the people on the ground to capture what was happening on the ground in real-time,” Lawrence stated of her resolution to be part of the doc, later including, “I can’t imagine not being able to take a taxi or not being able to listen to music. I can’t imagine if just the sound of my voice was illegal.”

The Oscar winner stated her “family and friends definitely encouraged me not to [produce the film],” given the subject material. “It’s dangerous. Of course it is,” she continued. “But there’s 20 million women whose lives are in danger.”

The No Exhausting Emotions actress has additionally had to battle trolls who claimi she’s not educated sufficient to speak about politics or the heavy subject material of the Taliban.

“[Trolls] always say different things,” Lawrence defined. “I did a 60 Minutes interview where I explained that I dropped out of middle school, so I’m technically not educated. So I think a common one especially with this subject is ‘why is someone without an education trying to talk about politics?’ To that I say it’s not political, it’s people’s lives.”

She continued, “It’s political in the sense that you should push your congresspeople and you should get involved to make our government more accountable. Then the UN can recognize gender apartheid. But I don’t find it political. Also, I am educated in filmmaking. I’m educated in telling stories.”