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She says that when a story portrays a community without including the real voices of people from the community, its risks becoming skewed and imbalanced.

In the film, a reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low,” Washington portrays a music mogul who is targeted for a ransom demand.

Instead, it portrays the measure entirely as a tax cut.

Sitting next to and locking hands with the person she portrays on screen, she explained: "When I got the script I went online and thought 'how do I not know this story?'."

She portrays a mystery novelist who teams with a young wannabe writer and influencer to investigate murders in a small New England town.