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Taryn Manning says her role in the new movie Karen didn’t sit too well with—you guessed it—Karens. The 42-year-old actress touched on the backlash in a recent interview with Mr. Warburton magazine. Manning told the outlet she anticipated to be criticized over the film, in which she plays Karen White: a racist, entitled white woman who terrorizes her new Black neighbors. […]

Last year, the already unfortunate name “Karen” fell out of favor with new parents, and for good reason. In recent years, though no one alive during them should need an explanation, “Karen” has been used as a catch-all term for white women who go viral after being filmed engaging in some manner of entitled (and […]

Hollywood is flipping the viral Karen sensation— a name afforded to entitled, privileged white women who frequently go viral on social media— into a Hollywood blockbuster. TMZ reports that Orange is the New Black‘s Taryn Manning (who plays Tiffany “Pennsatucky” Doggett in the Netflix series) will star as the lead in the new crime thriller. The writer and director helming the […]