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Actress and director Elizabeth Banks<\/a> defended a controversial scene depicting 12-year-olds doing cocaine in her upcoming R-rated flick “Cocaine Bear,” telling Variety’s Adam B. Vary in a recent interview that the scene was all about testing their “innocence.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was definitely controversial,” she said. “There were conversations about, should we age up these characters? We all kind of held hands, and we were like, \u2018Guys, they\u2019ve got to be 12.\u2019 It\u2019s their innocence being tested. That\u2019s what was interesting to me about that scene.”<\/p>\n

Christopher Miller, one of the Banks’ co-producers for the film, also defended the scene, arguing that “the na\u00efvet\u00e9 of the kids” makes it “OK.”<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s what makes it so tense and funny. It doesn\u2019t work if they\u2019re teenagers. It has to be that age where you don\u2019t know anything, but you want to pretend like you do,” Miller added.<\/p>\n

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The upcoming action-comedy film, set to debut worldwide on February 24, focuses on a cocaine-fueled black bear’s druggy rampage in a Georgia forest and is loosely based on a real-life story of a bear discovered in The Peach State’s<\/a> Chattahoochee National Forest after overdosing on cocaine from a drug smuggling attempt gone wrong in September 1985.<\/p>\n

“You know, it\u2019s a caper and a romp. It\u2019s really designed to be that and nothing more. It didn\u2019t really occur to us to politicize it at all,” Donna Langley, chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, said of the controversial drug scene.<\/p>\n

SEE RAY LIOTTA’S FINAL ROLE IN THE INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS MOVIE \u2018COCAINE BEAR\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Though the film has received additional criticism and mockery for being off-the-wall, Langley said she “wasn\u2019t afraid of the material,” adding that today’s movie marketplace thrives on being “bold and fresh and different.”<\/p>\n

“\u2018Cocaine Bear\u2019 certainly checks those boxes,” she said.<\/p>\n

Banks conceded that the film could be a “career-ender” for her during the interview with Vary, calling the film a “ginormous risk.”<\/p>\n

Vary touched on Banks’ ups and downs as a filmmaker, seeing successes with the “Pitch Perfect” films<\/a> and flops like 2019’s “Charlie’s Angels,” writing, “The film represents something new and potentially perilous for Banks: a chance to establish her own original filmmaking voice \u2014 and the possibility that audiences could reject it.”<\/p>\n

ELIZABETH BANKS SUGGESTS HER \u2018CHARLIE\u2019S ANGELS’ BOX OFFICE BOMB IS BECAUSE MEN \u2018DON\u2019T GO SEE’ FEMALE-LED ACTION FILMS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Langley additionally said Universal’s decision to pursue the film stemmed from identifying the plot as a “bold choice” to “cut through the clutter and to make some noise.”<\/p>\n

Banks said the gory R-rated flick could be seen as the bear’s “revenge story” against the drug traffickers whose botched run led to its tragic death.<\/p>\n

The film stars the late Ray Liotta, Keri Russell, Margo Martindale, and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/elizabeth-banks-defends-controversial-cocaine-bear-scene-kids-drugs-testing-innocence <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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