A week on from the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti, U.S. president Donald Trump continues to be publicly scolded for his administration’s assault on immigration. This time it’s by Braveheart actor Peter Mullan, who spoke to Variety whilst promoting his latest movie The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford at International Film Festival Rotterdam. The 66-year-old Scotsman began by revealing that he’d recently been forced to back out of a planned family trip to Las Vegas over fears that he’d be pulled at the airport over his left-wing ideals.
“There’s a lot about [America] that I love, but a lot that has become so ugly and so toxic. I’d never have thought, in a billion years, that we would actively not want to go to America. My son is autistic. He wanted to go to Las Vegas, although that’s my idea of hell, and we had to cancel. I didn’t trust border control not to look into my politics. My terror was they wouldn’t take care of my son, who has cognitive issues. It broke my heart, but he knew we weren’t going because of Trump.”
Mullan, who’s also widely recognized for portraying Corban Yaxley, a Death Eater, in the Harry Potter franchise, and Jacob Snell in Ozark, went on to argue that the historical “horrors” produced by politicians like Trump, Vladimir Putin, Nigel Farage, and Jair Bolsonaro, are getting rewritten “as we speak.” This includes the murder of Pretti, who’s since been slapped with a ‘domestic terrorist’ label.
“The Trump bandwagon will tell you: ‘Don’t believe your own eyes, don’t believe what you see.’ You’re informed by the people around you. That’s what’s so disgusting about what Trump is doing: he’s trying to turn Americans against Americans. When he says there’s a ‘good immigrant’ and a ‘bad immigrant,’ what he’s really saying is: There’s a white immigrant and a Black or brown immigrant. They were hoping to paint [Pretti] as a radical leftist and that hasn’t quite worked out. But what if he were Black? Forget about it.”
ICE Killings Get the Attention of Hollywood
This comes just days after Breaking Bad and The Mandalorian favorite Giancarlo Esposito wrestled with the sociopolitical madness going on around him at the Sundance Film Festival. In an interview with the same publication, the star (who lived with his Italian father and African-American mother in Rome until the age of five) claimed that now was the perfect time for a “revolution” to occur, with Trump and his minions apparently doing their best to create civil unrest on the streets. Esposito posited that “some very rich old white men” are flexing their power in order to “suppress” the people while teaching others how to shoot guns; something he described as “a very insidious problem that’s happening in our world.”
Attending the same annual event this month were Edward Norton, Olivia Wilde, and Natalie Portman, who mixed their promotional platitudes — concerning their respective movies The Invite and The Gallerist — with head-on addressals of the ICE controversies that have ripped through Minneapolis. Norton even compared the Homeland Security agency to Nazi Germany’s secret police, the Gestapo. Portman and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law actress Tatiana Maslany were pictured wearing “ICE Out” and “Be Good” pins on the red carpet.
Prior to Pretti’s death, a woman named Renée Good was killed in the exact same city by ICE officials, having tried to drive away from one of them in her car after being stopped on the road.
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May 24, 1995
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178 Minutes
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