When asked about the hardening of Trump’s immigration policies, the star of The Last of Us and Narcos He told journalists: “He is very scary for an actor who participates in a movie talking about topics like this.”
“I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We flee from a dictatorship and I had the privilege of growing in the United States after asylum in Denmark … I support those protections” in favor of migrants, said the 50 -year -old actor at a press conference in Cannes.
Pascal is one of the protagonists of Eddington, A film in competition for the Golden Palm, along with Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Austin Butler.
Eddington It is an intense and satirical examination of the political landscape in the United States, set in New Mexico during the Covid pandemic.
Directed by horror specialist Ari Aster, he premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
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Echoing a message from Robert De Niro on the opening night of Cannes, Pascal insisted that the film industry needed to find courage to resist political pressure. “Keep telling the stories, continue to express yourself and continue fighting to be who they are,” he asked.
“This is the perfect way to do it, telling stories. And don’t let them win,” Pascal asked.
The political division has worsened in the United States with the re -election of Donald Trump, a president who, before returning to power, was criticized by Hollywood and is regularly the object of teasing in entertainment television programs.
De Niro, who accepted an award for the Trajectory in Cannes on Tuesday, urged the audience of directors and frontline actors to resist the “United States Philistine President”.
Trump was subject to an attempt to murder in 2024 during the electoral campaign in an act in Pennsylvania, and in the same year of another alleged attempt in his golf course in Florida.
Aster parody everyone in his film, from conservatives lovers of the weapons of the southern United States to white activists in favor of the Black Lives Matter anti -racist movement.