The actor calls on filmmakers to “continue to tell the stories, to express you and to fight to be who you are”.
Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal called on members of the film industry to “fight back” and to express themselves in the midst of what he seemed to describe as a political climate for fear in the United States.
“F *** people trying to scare you. And retaliate. It is the ideal way to do it by telling stories. Do not let them win,” said Pascal, 50, who was at the Cannes Film Festival for “Eddington”.
“Fear is the way they win, for one. And then continue to tell the stories and continue to express yourself and fight to be who you are,” he said.
“Eddington” puts Pascal Pascal as mayor of Small City who campaigns against a Sheriff with luck played by Joaquin Phoenix in a city in the New Mexico where tensions simmer on Mask Policy in Covid-19 and the protests of Black Lives Matter.
Pascal, known for his role in the dystopian adaptation of the video game “The Last of Us”, added that he was “far too intimidating” for him to answer a question on the immigration policy of American president Donald Trump.
“It is very scary that an actor participates in a film to speak in a way of problems like this,” he said.
“I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship, and I had the privilege of growing up in the United States after asylum in Denmark … I want these protections,” said the 50-year-old at a press conference in Cannes.
Trump launched an irregular immigration repression and also detained and moved to expel a number of legal legal residents, his policies triggering a wave of proceedings and demonstrations.
Trump has made one of Cannes’ main discussion points this week after announcing on May 5 that he wanted 100% tariffs on “foreign land” films.
The acting legend Robert de Niro, who accepted Tuesday a prize for the production of Cannes for life, also urged an audience of directors and actors from the list of America to resist the “American Philistin President”.
