Date 12/09/2016 - News People
Though she has no dialogue and only appears in 12 minutes of ?The Birth of a Nation,? actress Gabrielle Union was the unquestionable star of a press conference for the film held Sunday during the Toronto Film Festival. Doubling down on a powerful op-ed she wrote prior to the festival, Union roused journalists at the Fairmont Hotel with comments on surviving rape, criticism that she betrayed her director Nate Parker, the Black Lives Matter movement, sexism, the universal conversation that ?Birth? invites ? and even Ryan Lochte.
