LOVING / New Interracial Couples Emojis
Loving: Love pushes ordinary people to do extraordinary things
Richard and Mildred Loving showed us that love is stronger than hate and has the power to spark real change. Inspired by their story, we are debuting emojis that represent many forms of love, including same-sex and interracial. In addition, during election season, we’re encouraging everyone to show that simply conveying love can change the world one state at a time. LOVING, a Focus Features release, opens in select cities November 4 and expands across the country later in November.
- While many platforms have added emojis that represent same-sex couples, there are no emojis or options to represent interracial couples.ย The movieย has teamed up with Twitter to change that and create an emoji that celebrates interracial couples. On Twitter, using the hashtagย #VoteLoving, #ThisisLovingย or #LovingMovie will automatically populateย an interracial couple emoji, representing Mildred and Richard Loving.
- To build on this, we are launching theย LOVE-MOJI Appย today, which is a keyboard extension that offers a variety of interracial and same-sex couple emoji options! These emojis can be used everywhere — texting, Facebook, email, etc. Download the LOVE-MOJI here:For iOS or For Google Play or visit your app store. See all of the emojisย here.
- Each day leading up to the election, This movie’s social pages will share a story from each state about ordinary Americans conveying love that are helping to better the state of the world. Find out more by watching theย #VoteLoving video. To see all the various stories and social posts about conveying love from across the country, as broken down by state, visitย VoteLoving.com.
Follow LOVING to participate and help love change the world!
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#ThisisLoving |ย #VoteLoving
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LOVING
In Select Citiesย November 4
Additional Cities throughout November
From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols,ย LOVINGย celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.
Cast: Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Terri Abney, Alano Miller, Jon Bass, and Michael Shannon
Written and Directed By: Jeff Nichols
Distributor: Focus Features
MPAA Rating: PG-13
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