BuzzFeed - Alexander Skarsgard in The Legend of Tarzan Warner Bros Mischa Barton was lit up by the internet on Thursday for a woefully ill-conceived (and since deleted) Instagram post in which she expressed her anger and grief about the shooting of Alton Sterling next to a photo in which she lounged on a boat in a bikini holding a glass of wine. The gap between words and image was ridiculous, and the ire it generated understandable ? it felt like a self-serving display of wokeness, meant to call attention to the person talking instead of the people she was talking about. Barton apologized, and the country has since been shaken by the killing of Philando Castile by police in Minnesota and the deaths of five Dallas police and rapid transit officers during a protest, making the social media miscalculations of a former O.C. star seem less than incidental. But Barton's misstep is also one that Hollywood's been committing this summer, when very little of what the studios have been offering u
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