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She went on, \"We can’t just keep living our lives and thinking everything’s going to work itself out,\" she said. \"No, it’s not going to work out. We have to get involved. We have to make changes.\"

Looking back at 2020 as a whole, the \"Hustlers\" star said she felt it was a \"necessary\" year because \"what we realized is that we’re all in this together. This is about our kids growing up in a world where they feel comfortable, where things are equal, and there’s more kindness and love than hate and division.\"

\"There’s something happening that we’re in the middle of and you have to trust that on the other side it’s going to be so much better,\" she said. \"We just have to hang on.\"

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