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Diablo Cody on Why ‘Forbidden Fruits’ Is Getting the Praise ‘Jennifer’s Body’ Deserved: There Has ‘Never Been a Better Time’ to Tell These Stories

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When “Jennifer’s Body” screened at Midnight Madness at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009, the Oscar-winning writer, Diablo Cody knew something was wrong. “I realized in that moment that nobody got it,” she tells Variety. “That sickening feeling, and I don’t mean sickening in the positive way people use it now.”

Sixteen years later, Cody produced “Forbidden Fruits,” a witchy, female-led dark comedy now in theaters. It premiered at South by Southwest earlier this month to the kind of reception she once could only imagine. “Hearing people in the audience at South understanding the movie was really healing for me,” she says. “Even though I didn’t make this film.”

Diablo Cody on Why 'Forbidden Fruits' Is Getting the Praise 'Jennifer's Body' Deserved: There Has 'Never Been a Better Time' to Tell These Stories