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The organisation said there had been a "surge in rhetoric that falsely portrays Muslims as terrorists or terrorist sympathisers" following the Israel-Gaza conflict and the spreading of misinformation after the Southport murders.

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?'."