See Felicity Jones as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the First Trailer for *On the Basis of Sex*
Last year, Felicity Jones signed on to portray Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in an upcoming biopic called On the Basis of Sex—and now the first trailer for the movie is here.
If these two-plus minutes are any indication, On the Basis of Sex will focus solely on Bader Ginsburg as a young lawyer battling sexism in both her career and the culture at large. The first scene shows her literally walking up the stairs of Capitol Hill amid a sea of dudes in suits—and that image permeates the entire trailer.
It seems Bader Ginsburg faced sexism everywhere she turned. She lived under the shadow of her husband, Martin (played by Armie Hammer), was called a “ball-buster” for gradating at the top of her class, and was rejected from jobs all because she was a woman. “If the law differentiates on the basis of sex, then how will women and men ever become equals,” Bader Ginsburg asks at the top of the trailer.
But attempts to change this by taking on a case that could potentially overturn decades of gender discrimination. Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer star alongside Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Jack Reynor, and Kathy Bates. Mimi Leder, known for films like Deep Impact and The Peacemaker, is directing.
“The word ‘woman’ does not appear even once in the U.S. Constitution,” a judge says to Bader Ginsburg at one point in the trailer, to which she replies, “Nor does the word ‘freedom,’ your honor.”
Check out the trailer, below:
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On the Basis of Sex hits theaters on December 25.
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