On Instagram, Dunham posted somebody else’s picture of a Bourne ad with the gun held by Matt Damon’s character forcefully torn off and a caption advising people to just take the guns out themselves.
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The creator and star of HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham, wants guns removed from Jason Bourne ads in NY.
On Tuesday, Dunham reposted an image shared by “Girls” producer Tami Sagher showing a defaced subway ad for the movie with the gun stripped from the poster.
Ever since news last week of the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the five Dallas police officers, Dunham has been voicing her thoughts about race and policing on social media.
Sagher’s plea to disarm Bourne was accompanied by a photo, which had already been altered, with the gun part peeled off from the ad.
Damon, himself, has also spoken out against America’s gun violence in recent weeks. The poster protest follows Damon’s own comments on gun control, in which he lamented the US’s inability to “talk about [the issue] sensibly” while promoting the film in Australia.
The film is due out later this month..
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“People get so emotional that even when you make a suggestion about not selling AK-47s to people on terror watch lists, that’s a non-starter”, he explained to the New Zealand news outlet Stuff.
