Ayo Edebiri addresses viral ‘After the Hunt’ interview exchange

She couldn’t bear less about it.

Ayo Edebiri has finally addressed the now-viral exchange she shared with an Italian journalist while discussing her newest movie, “After the Hunt,” at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month.

The “Bear” star opened up about the incident shortly after the Luca Guadagnino-directed flick, which also stars Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield, premiered at the New York Film Festival on Friday, Sept. 26.

“I think I’m less online than I used to be,” Edebiri, 29, responded after a fan asked if she was aware how viral the moment has become. “So I didn’t really, to be completely honest. And I love to lie! I make money lying!”

However, the “Opus” actress added that the surprising exchange paralleled some of the themes featured in “After the Hunt,” which follows a professor (Roberts) who is forced to reexamine her own past after a student (Edebiri) accuses another professor (Garfield) of a serious crime.

“But I didn’t really pay too much attention, but I think it was just a very human moment, and think in a strange way, an uncomfortable conversation is one of the many things our film is about,” the Emmy winner continued. “So shout out to tie-ins!”

The incident first made headlines earlier this month when Edebiri, Roberts, 57, and Garfield, 42, sat down with Italian reporter Federica Polidoro to discuss “After the Hunt” following its premiere in Venice.

Polidoro posed Edebiri’s co-stars, but not Edebiri herself, a charged question about the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements.

“What have we lost in the politically correct era, and what can we have to expect in Hollywood after the #MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done?” the journalist asked Roberts and Garfield.

The “Bottoms” star, however, pushed back and answered the question anyway.

“I know that that’s not for me, and I don’t know if it’s purposeful if it’s not for me… [but] I don’t think it’s done,” Edebiri began.

“Hashtags might not be used as much, but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people every day, that’s beautiful, important work,” she continued. “That’s not finished, that’s really, really active for a reason because this world’s really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all.”

Garfield added that both the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements are “still absolutely alive,” while Roberts agreed that the “work isn’t finished at all.” 

Although Polidoro later took to social media after the exchange went viral to respond to the serious backlash against her, she never explained why she excluded Edebiri from the question in the first place.

“Following an interview, I have been subjected to personal insults and attacks because of a question that, for some reason, was not well received by some members of the public,” Polidoro wrote in a lengthy statement.

“I find it striking that those who unjustly accuse me of racism and consider themselves custodians of justice find acceptable violent language, personal attacks, and cyberbullying,” she added.

The Post reached out to both Edebiri and Polidoro for comment.