{"id":1840781,"date":"2023-02-09T09:35:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840781"},"modified":"2023-02-09T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T14:36:05","slug":"elizabeth-banks-defends-scene-showing-12-year-olds-doing-drugs-in-new-cocaine-bear-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elizabeth-banks-defends-scene-showing-12-year-olds-doing-drugs-in-new-cocaine-bear-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks Defends Scene Showing 12-Year-Olds Doing Drugs In New \u2018Cocaine Bear\u2019 Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felizabeth-banks-defends-scene-showing-12-year-olds-doing-drugs-in-new-cocaine-bear-movie%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840781&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>There\u2019s been a lot of hype leading up to the release of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elizabeth-banks\">Elizabeth Banks<\/a> film, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Cocaine Bear<\/a>,\u201d The director now addresses one sensitive scene that involves children taking hard drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/entertainment\">Star<\/a> The scene was discussed during a a href=&#8221;https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/features\/elizabeth-banks-cocaine-bear-gory-1235515340\/&#8221;>interview<\/a> Variety admitting that it was \u201ccontroversial\u201d Yet, it is necessary to write the script.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was definitely controversial. There were conversations about, \u2018should we age up these characters?\u2019 We all kind of held hands and we were like, \u2018Guys, they\u2019ve got to be 12.\u2019 It\u2019s their innocence being tested,\u201d She said. \u201cThat\u2019s what was interesting to me about that scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Miller, the producer, agreed that 12-year-olds were included in their production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the na\u00efvet\u00e9 of the kids that makes it okay. It\u2019s what makes it so tense and funny. It doesn\u2019t work if they\u2019re teenagers,\u201d He stated. \u201cIt has to be that age where you don\u2019t know anything, but you want to pretend like you do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming movie release is a big deal with moviegoers \u201cCocaine Bear.\u201d The film is based upon the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-movie-about-a-murderous-bear-jacked-up-on-cocaine-set-to-sweep-the-academy-awards\">true story<\/a> A 175-pound black bear died from an overdose after taking cocaine. The cocaine was reportedly thrown out of the plane by a drug smuggler in 1985. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, the bear was found with 40 open containers that contained cocaine in its vicinity.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Filmmaker David Leitch will have a lot of freedom in the film, which depicts the bear on a wild hunt for cocaine. This unique and unusual premise is sure to get potential viewers excited about seeing something new. Banks said to the publication she wanted a \u201cmuscular and masculine\u201d Film and \u201cbreak down some of the mythology around what kinds of movies women are interested in making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banks stated that she wanted to keep the title provocative in order to attract more viewers. \u201cI lived through [the 2008 comedy] \u2018Zach and Miri Make a Porno,\u2019 and the title was a problem,\u201d She said. \u201cBut I think \u2018Zach and Miri Make a Porno\u2019 now would be like, \u2018Whatever.\u2019 I don\u2019t really think anyone would even shy away from it. Because words don\u2019t matter anymore. Words really don\u2019t matter anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The actress also told Variety she has never personally tried cocaine because she\u2019s a \u201cgoody two shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCocaine Bear\u201d Premieres in Theaters February 24,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s been a lot of hype leading up to the release of the new Elizabeth Banks film, \u201cCocaine Bear,\u201d and now the director is addressing one potentially sensitive scene featuring kids doing hard drugs. The 48-year-old star discussed her decision to include the scene during an interview with Variety, admitting it was \u201ccontroversial\u201d yet necessary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1840784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[18127,8961,8259,11521,4549,7137,3880,4868,6903],"class_list":["post-1840781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-12-year-olds","tag-banks","tag-bear","tag-cocaine","tag-defends","tag-drugs","tag-elizabeth","tag-movie","tag-scene"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}