Julia Roberts has been forced to defend her new film After the Hunt on Friday from claims it “undermines feminist principles” and “the feminist struggle.”

Speaking at a Q&A for the Venice International Film Festival alongside director Luca Guadagnino and co-stars Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edebiri, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nora Garrett, and Chloë Sevigny, Roberts said that “we’re kind of losing the art of conversation in humanity right now,” according to Variety.

A reporter had asked the star to respond to the critics who think the film cast a bad light on the #MeToo era.

“I think, not to be disagreeable, because it’s not in my nature,” she began, “I don’t necessarily think it’s reviving just an argument of women being pitted against each other or not supporting each other. There’s a lot of old a

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