In 2022, he described the country's defense against the Russian invasion as the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams, adding, If we allow it to fight alone, our soul as America is lost. That same year, the actor lent Zelenskiy one of his Oscars—the one he won this afternoon is his third—promising to leave it in Kyiv until Ukraine's victory in the war.
Don't call yourself a fan if you share racist/homophobic/biphobic/misogynistic/ageist/ableist/parasocial/bigoted comments of any kind. None of us need your hateful 'love.' We all respect and support and love each other and are on the same side. If you can't accept that gtfoh.
Art is always political. As the white friend at this event, I'm gonna go ahead and say to the women who look like me - to the men who look like me - it's incredibly important to remember that so much of what we love in America comes from Black culture. White people need to show up for Black people the way they show up to be entertained by Black culture.
I said, 'I'll put our beef aside and Anderson, you have to go to Minnesota. We need famous faces there.' And then I said to Andy, 'Andy, I know you do a silly show, Watch What Happens Live, but take a minute.' And then he did. I would like to see Jimmy Fallon get political and he's not. That's the place where it's kind of very safe.
Billie Eilish has a message for the world's most prominent billionaires: Give your money away, shorties. "I love you all, but there are a few people here with a lot more money than me," she said. "If you're a billionaire-why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties," she said at the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards.
"It's the most important to stick up for people and for peace," she said. "We have to use our platforms. What's the point of being at these big events if you're not going to use your privilege?"
Emma Stone is one of the latest Hollywood figures to sign a pledge not to "screen films, appear at, or otherwise work with" Israeli film institutions that are "implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people." Film Workers for Palestine published the pledge - which invokes the work of Filmmakers United Against Apartheid, the 1980s initiative co-founded by Jonathan Demme and Martin Scorsese in response to apartheid in South Africa - in a September 8 open letter with more than 1,000 initial signatories.
