I wonder if Julia Roberts saw it There’s still tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi. I wonder if he thought about it when he recorded the election advert supporting Kamala Harris that infuriated conservatives. There is something reminiscent of the protagonist of the film who runs away from her violent husband to go and vote for a better future. The 30-second video shows a woman wearing a rhinestone-encrusted American flag baseball cap walking away from her husband to the polls, looking into the eyes of another woman and choosing Kamala Harris. “In the only place in America where women still have the right to choose,” Roberts’ voice says, “You can vote however you want. And no one will ever know.”
Julia Roberts and the advert that infuriates conservatives
The US presidential elections will also be largely based on reproductive rights given that Donald Trump intends to further limit access to abortion and the video refers exactly to this. Men are more likely to vote for Trump while polls say 55% of women will choose Harris. Julia Roberts’ advert invites American citizens to vote to protect their rights even “betraying” her husband’s political beliefs. In the video, in fact, we see the woman return to her husband who asks her if she “made the right choice” referring to Donald Trump. She candidly answers yes while the voice says “What happens at the polling station stays at the polling station.”
The conservatives didn’t like this at all. There are those who have compared it to a real betrayal: “Such a thing would violate the sanctity of our marriage”, said host Jesse Watters on Fox News while another host, Charlie Kirk, heavily criticized the commercial calling it “nauseating,” “repugnant” and “the embodiment of the fall of the American family.” “She comes with her sweet husband, who probably goes to great lengths to make sure she can go and have a good life and provide for the family,” she commented, “and then she lies to him.” Even Trump took it out on Julia Roberts for the video, a sign that, evidently, the objective of the advert was fully achieved.
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