It's just so outrageous,  offers Sofia Coppola.

The Academy Award-winning filmmaker is seated across from me inside No Matter What, an immersive art installation from Planned Parenthood in Greenwich Village. The pop-up, running Friday and Saturday, is a walk-through multimedia exhibition that provides visitors with the stories of those impacted by the Trump administration's defunding of Planned Parenthood, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

 No Matter What is a space to bear witness to the real harm being done to real people, and to remember that we are not powerless,  said Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.  Planned Parenthood has been fighting for over 100 years, and we are not stopping now. We invite everyone to come, to see, to feel the stakes of this moment, and to join us in this fight. 

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Coppola is  a longtime supporter of Planned Parenthood  who's  going to continue to support it.  Her late mother Eleanor, the documentary filmmaker and artist, was a lifelong advocate for the health organization and always touted its importance to her. So, the actions by the Trump administration and the Supreme Court have been a resounding blow to Coppola.

 It's such a blow because my mom was a supporter of Planned Parenthood and her generation fought for all these rights that we took for granted,  Coppola tells Variety.  It's hard to believe that my daughter's generation won't have these basic rights that are so fundamental. It's important that we all do what we can to support health care for everyone. 

I also bumped into the young Scottish actress Lucy Halliday roaming the exhibition. Halliday is one of the stars of  The Testaments,  a sequel to  The Handmaid's Tale  airing on Hulu set in a dystopian world where women have been completely stripped of their rights and forced to enter into arranged marriages or even serve as natal slaves.

  The Testaments' is emulating all the things that we see on the news,  says Halliday.  The second I saw this was on I knew I couldn't miss it because the fact that we are, i

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