Actress Leslie Jones, who starred in the 2016 'Ghostbusters' reboot, shared details in her memoir about the backlash against her role in the iconic movie series.
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Jones claimed that she experienced"racism and misogyny" around her role in the 2016 reboot of"Ghostbusters."according to Variety. "I can’t believe anyone would do this s--t to someone, anyone, for working," she wrote."This is awful. I am in a movie. Death threats for something as small as that?""I was being sent films of being hanged, of white guys jacking off on my picture, saying, ‘You f---ing n-----. We going to kill you,'" she wrote."Why are people being so evil to each other? How can you sit and type ‘I want to kill you.
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