Chilean actor Pedro Pascal has responded forcefully to the questions at the Cannes Festival about his assessment of the political and social situation in the United States since the second term of Donald Trump began. In ‘Eddington’, directed by Ari Aster, he and Joaquin Phoenix face precisely a savage west about the conspiracy drifts of the United States.
You have to “keep telling stories, expressing and fighting,” said the actor, who launched advice: “That they try to scare and counterattack. Do not let them win.”
Pascal shared a press conference with Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Austin Butler, all of them protagonists of ‘Eddington’, presented this Saturday in the official competition of Cannes.
Pascal thus responded to the issue raised by an American journalist about the fear that people from other countries feel to travel to the United States to participate in film festivals. Aster joined the Chilean by ensuring that he seeks “hope desperately” in the midst of his country’s political chaos and considered that the only way to get out of the current situation is “to commit to each other.”
Another of the issues that arose at the press conference was the deportation of immigrants that Trump’s government has decreed. And although Pascal acknowledged not being the “sufficiently informed” to comment on the subject, he remembered that he is an immigrant and his parents, refugees from Chile who fled from the dictatorship.
“I had the privilege of growing in the United States after obtaining asylum in Denmark. I don’t know what would have been of us (of not achieving it),” he said. He added that that is why “always” defends the protection of immigrants and refugees. “I want people to be safe and protected,” he said.