00:00The very first November I was fired by my agency, specifically for marching and speaking out about Gaza, for asking
00:10for ceasefire.
00:11And it became impossible for me to even be on television.
00:16I don't know lately if it's changed, but couldn't do any major film, anything connected with, you know, Hollywood.
00:30I found agents ultimately in England and in Italy, and I have worked there.
00:37I just did a film in Italy, and I did a play at the Old Vic for a number of
00:42months.
00:43But I know that, you know, this Italian director that just hired me, he was told not to hire me.
00:48So that's still recently.
00:50He didn't listen, but he had that, they had that conversation.
00:53So right now I kind of specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed and, you know, are
01:03independent films and films that are in Europe or in Italy and, you know.
01:12So that's the main reason I haven't been working as much.
01:17In a place where you feel repression and censorship, to see Spain and to see the president and what he
01:26says and what the support that he's giving about Gaza and to have actors like Javier Bardem and come forward
01:34with such a strong voice is so important to us in the United States.
01:40I can't tell you when you turn on the TV and you see how strong Spain is and how clear
01:47that you are morally about these issues.
01:50It makes you feel less alone, and it makes you feel that there is hope because of you all and
01:57the fact that you just don't hear that on television in the United States.
02:02You don't know that that exists.
02:07And when someone stands up so strongly, when a nation stands up, and I include Ireland in this too,
02:13it's, I can't tell you how very important it is to those of us who are trying in an atmosphere
02:20that is very difficult.
02:25When we see that kind of strength and moral clarity, how much it means to us.
02:32So I thank you.
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