Succession-stjernen Brian Cox var blant de som kom med en appell da prisene i Screen Actors Guild ble delt ut. Samtidig kommer krav om at den internasjonale filmindustrien bør boikotte russiske filmer.

Det var da Brian Cox skulle motta prisen for beste dramaensemble på vegne av serien Succession i går kveld norsk tid, at han kom med den sterke appellen.
“One other thing I would like to add, which I think is important to me and I hope important to you as actors and performers and writers and directors, [is] what’s going on in Ukraine. It’s truly, truly awful. It’s particularly awful in terms of [how] it’s affecting people particularly in our profession. The President of Ukraine [Volodymyr Zelensky] was a comic. He was a wonderful comic performer. And we should respect that. To come to the presidency was amazing. But the thing that really distressed me is what’s happening in Russia, to my fellow actors and actresses and performers and writers and critics. They are told, under pain of high treason, they cannot say a word about Ukraine. I think that is awful. I think we should all stand together also for those people. The people in Russia who don’t like what’s going on, and particularly the artists. I think we should join and celebrate them and hope that they can make a shift. Because I believe they can.”
Også Michael Keaton var opptatt av Ukraina da han ble tildelt prisen for beste mannlige skuespiller i en tv-film eller miniserie, for Dopesick:
“We have a fellow actor in Zelensky, who deserves some credit for fighting the fight.”
Tidligere under seremonien hadde skuespiller Leslie Odom Jr minnet publikum om å ha Ukraina i tankene under en seremoni som samtidig var ment å være en hyllest av bransjen selv. Fran Drescher, presidenten i skuespillerlauget (SAG), startet sin tale med en bønn til alle sivile i Ukraina som nå er rammet av invasjonskrigen. Det var også mange blant publikum som bar pins med det ukrainske flagget for å vise sin støtte.
Samtidig øker presset for at også filmindustrien skal iverksette tiltak for å isolere Russland ytterligere. I helgen sendte det ukrainske filmakademiet ut en oppfordring til den internasjonale filmindustrien om å boikotte russiske filmer. Å inkludere russiske filmer på internasjonale festivaler legitimerer Putin og det offisielle Russland, mener de.
«Several films made by Russia are regularly admitted to the programs of most world film festivals, and significant resources are spent on their promotion. The result of this activity is not only the spread of propaganda messages and distorted facts. It also boosts the loyalty of Russian culture — the culture of the aggressor state, which unleashed unjustified and unprovoked war in central Europe,» heter det blant annet i appellen.
Det var da Brian Cox skulle motta prisen for beste dramaensemble på vegne av serien Succession i går kveld norsk tid, at han kom med den sterke appellen.
“One other thing I would like to add, which I think is important to me and I hope important to you as actors and performers and writers and directors, [is] what’s going on in Ukraine. It’s truly, truly awful. It’s particularly awful in terms of [how] it’s affecting people particularly in our profession. The President of Ukraine [Volodymyr Zelensky] was a comic. He was a wonderful comic performer. And we should respect that. To come to the presidency was amazing. But the thing that really distressed me is what’s happening in Russia, to my fellow actors and actresses and performers and writers and critics. They are told, under pain of high treason, they cannot say a word about Ukraine. I think that is awful. I think we should all stand together also for those people. The people in Russia who don’t like what’s going on, and particularly the artists. I think we should join and celebrate them and hope that they can make a shift. Because I believe they can.”
Også Michael Keaton var opptatt av Ukraina da han ble tildelt prisen for beste mannlige skuespiller i en tv-film eller miniserie, for Dopesick:
“We have a fellow actor in Zelensky, who deserves some credit for fighting the fight.”
Tidligere under seremonien hadde skuespiller Leslie Odom Jr minnet publikum om å ha Ukraina i tankene under en seremoni som samtidig var ment å være en hyllest av bransjen selv. Fran Drescher, presidenten i skuespillerlauget (SAG), startet sin tale med en bønn til alle sivile i Ukraina som nå er rammet av invasjonskrigen. Det var også mange blant publikum som bar pins med det ukrainske flagget for å vise sin støtte.
Samtidig øker presset for at også filmindustrien skal iverksette tiltak for å isolere Russland ytterligere. I helgen sendte det ukrainske filmakademiet ut en oppfordring til den internasjonale filmindustrien om å boikotte russiske filmer. Å inkludere russiske filmer på internasjonale festivaler legitimerer Putin og det offisielle Russland, mener de.
«Several films made by Russia are regularly admitted to the programs of most world film festivals, and significant resources are spent on their promotion. The result of this activity is not only the spread of propaganda messages and distorted facts. It also boosts the loyalty of Russian culture — the culture of the aggressor state, which unleashed unjustified and unprovoked war in central Europe,» heter det blant annet i appellen.