Diablo Cody looks back on Juno in the wake of anti-abortion legislation and why she 'stayed out of the discourse' around its anti-choice interpretation until now
would get a theatrical release today. But at the time, people were still taking chances on stories like that. I don’t remember anybody worrying that it was provocative or anything like that.was a critical and commercial success at the box office, and it sparked debate: Some praised it as a feminist film, and others criticized
I didn’t have a lot of clarity at the time because I had been thrust into this surreal reality of being a public figure overnight, which was not something that I had anticipated happening. It was honestly traumatic — and my head was so far up my own ass — that I wasn’t super cognizant of any of the cultural dialogue surrounding the movie.
I was fully writing from my gut at that time, which may be regrettable. Now I have children, and I’ve been through some of those experiences, so I think I could probably bring a lot more to a story like that. But I did talk to some people. Sometimes people cite the scene of Juno going to the clinic and there being an anti-abortion sign out front as anti-choice because that’s what helps shift her decision to continue the pregnancy and agree to a closed adoption. But on the other hand, maybe that can be read as realistic. Are there any parts of the film you’d redo or rethink in hindsight?
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