'The Babadook' filmmaker Jennifer Kent on how her character became an LGBTQ+ icon, and why we will never see a sequel

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"It's like, 'I spot you.' That's what I consciousness is being said back."

Jennifer Kent, filmmaker of The Babadook, opens up 10 years later astir creating a characteristic that would go an LGBTQ+ icon and why she refused to make a sequel.

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