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Jenna Ortega plays an artificial friend in need in ‘Klara and the Sun’

 In Taika Waititi’s “Klara and the Sun”, which stars Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, a robot delivers lessons on humanity. The dystopian drama is based on ​Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 bestseller of the same name and set in ‌a technologically advanced future, following what one character describes as a third world war triggered by the abuse of the internet. Ortega plays Klara, an outdated model of an Artificial Friend, an android companion whose sell-by ​date is fast approaching when, to her relief, teenager Josie (Mia Tharia) and her…