Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Octavia Spencer, and More TIFF Stars Talk Trump-Era Political Climate

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"Our job is to offer hope and inspire people," Spencer told THR, while Oldman stated, "The world's a mess, and it's perfect."

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00:00We're asking everyone how the political climate, especially of course in America and other

00:05parts of the world, is sort of affecting your creative decisions or your sort of artistic

00:11choices.

00:12Oof.

00:13Oof.

00:14Oof.

00:15In a soundbite?

00:16Hey, why not?

00:17Let the Americans do it.

00:18We don't say nothing.

00:19It's not so great in Australia either.

00:21Yeah, it's not so great in Britain either, but it's a total mess everywhere.

00:30Can we say the word climate?

00:33No.

00:34I'm not sure that's allowed anymore.

00:36No, it's very uncomfortable.

00:37You're not, it's very sensitive.

00:38For so many reasons.

00:39One is sort of of two minds.

00:41I mean, I'll speak for myself.

00:42You kind of think, well, I have the ability to make films.

00:45Maybe it's incumbent upon me to make a political movie of some type, not literally, but even

00:51with a metaphor.

00:52And on the other hand, when times are tough politically, you think, well, now's the time

00:56to make art and just show something with love.

01:01It definitely informs the direction of stories and the scripts people are writing, and I'm

01:07sensing and feel responsibility to use their voice to engage in something that has relevance.

01:14I feel that very much.

01:16I think we're living in very scary times, and we all have to be responsible.

01:25The great thing that's, has happened and is continuing to happen, as was happening during

01:30the time of Watergate.

01:31People are getting out and protesting.

01:34That hasn't happened in America for many, many years.

01:37I think if you put work out there that, you know, not only entertains but educates people

01:42and somehow allow us to see the other side, like for this film, I think it's not a coincidence

01:53that for the two main characters who don't speak, Guillermo chose to have a black woman and

02:00a closeted gay man be the voices, you know, for them.

02:05That says a lot about where we are in the world and where people of color and the LGBTQ community

02:12are.

02:13I'm a minority.

02:14Exactly.

02:15You definitely, definitely.

02:16The minority are minority.

02:17Exactly.

02:18So, yeah, I think our job is to offer hope and inspire people.

02:22I grew up in Canada and during a time I always thought that, you know, Canadians got kind of

02:28a break through the whole Vietnam era.

02:31America had Nixon and Watergate and Vietnam and all that stuff to deal with and there was

02:37a certain, I don't know if it's cynicism but skepticism or whatever that happened from

02:42that and it formed the character.

02:45So, they come up to Canada, you know, when they're casting, you know, American TV shows

02:50and movies to find the perfect middle American.

02:53That, the idyllic, you know, Michael J. Fox and people like that who grew up in Canada.

03:00It's a weird kind of phenomenon.

03:02I don't know if that answered your question but I'm making sound and that's the important

03:06thing.

03:07These times are not unusual.

03:09I mean, we tend to think that it's a crisis.

03:12We're always in a crisis.

03:13And the issues that bedevil us as human beings are constant.

03:18They're eternal.

03:19And they haven't changed since, you know, Socrates and Plato or any of the great Greek dramatists

03:24started to write about the human condition.

03:26You know, we're still wrestling with envy, pettiness, tribalism, you know.

03:33Our camp against yours and finding points of difference rather than points of commonality.

03:38And it's still the same old bag, unfortunately.

03:41The world's a mess and it's perfect.

03:48And someone left chewing gum under this seat.

03:51That's very, very naughty.

03:53Can you imagine doing that?

03:54They're chewing gum.

03:55I can't imagine anyone doing that.

03:57I'm an actor.

03:58I can't imagine, yeah.

03:59I'm an actor for you.

04:00He can't imagine a life refugee in America.

04:01I can't imagine anyone doing that.

04:02We just need that murder.

04:03And that's a great idea.

04:04Would you like to tell us all that by keeping somebody

04:11doing some tightك now?

04:16I do not know why not.

04:17Let's never forget Amelia sprung.

04:19And I'm confident that it can really be Random

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