Javier Bardem says ‘narrative changing’ on Gaza

CANNES: Outspoken Spanish star Javier Bardem informed AFP he was “getting more work than ever” regardless of his public campaigning towards Israel’s warfare in Gaza, one thing he attributed to “the narrative changing” across the battle.

At the final Oscars ceremony in February, the overtly political star of “No Country for Old Men” used his time presenting the award for greatest worldwide characteristic movie to state: “No to war and a free Palestine.”

Acclaimed actress Susan Sarandon, a fellow pro-Palestinian campaigner, in addition to different much less identified figures have complained about their work drying up after their statements condemning Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“I think it’s important to be able to express your point of view, knowing that there will be people who agree and people who don’t,” Bardem informed AFP on the Cannes Film Festival the place he’s starring in “The Beloved” by Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen.

Scottish-born screenwriter Paul Laverty, a member of the Cannes jury this 12 months, accused Hollywood of blacklisting movie figures reminiscent of Sarandon, Bardem and Mark Ruffalo over their politics.

“It doesn’t worry me because I’m lucky enough to be able to work. I’m lucky to be in a place where I can express myself knowing that I have job offers. I imagine there are people who are more afraid they won’t get called because of it, but that’s not my case,” Bardem, 57, stated.

“In fact, it’s the opposite, they’re calling even more because the narrative is changing,” stated the Oscar winner. “Now it is now not as managed by those that have at all times managed it.

“Instead we now understand that there are consequences when you support or justify a genocide like the one that is happening. And society knows that,” he stated.

Bardem delivers a five-star efficiency of heat and quiet menace In “The Beloved,” which sees him play a well-known movie director who returns to Spain after years within the United States to shoot a movie along with his estranged actress daughter (Victoria Luengo).

The movie, which premiered on Saturday, tackles Spain’s former colonial occupation of Western Sahara, a territory that’s disputed by Morocco and the pro-independence Sahrawis of the Polisario Front.