They couldn’t just be proud and content with having a major actor visiting their country, they just had to lie about him proclaiming to be Israel’s #1 dick rider. Greedy. He also shouldn’t have planned to go to begin with.
He has a pretty good reason for being there in the first place. There is nothing wrong with having a good enough reason to go there. As long as you aren’t a coward about it.
The article explains well what happened and i believe it shows his integrity.
If you don’t believe me then keep scrolling the comments here to find out why he had a good reason to be there in the first place.
A willingness to honor your commitments is not something we discourage. And not allowing yourself to be used to promote and be promoted by a terrible regime by sacrificing something you have committed to, openly and transparently is also something we should probably take good note of.
That reason was shit?
“It’s a chance to share storytelling with Nazis”
That’s not the one, keep looking
He was just going to star in a show. That is as bad a reason as they come for going to Israel at the present time.
If you read the comment im referencing then that is quite the simplification of what his trip meant to him
I couldn’t give two shits about what it means to him. It is his act of going to Israel and star in a show which is important here. You can rationalise anything with words, but in the end it comes down to what you do, your actions not words.
I have no idea what you are referring to. This quote seems pretty clear he was happy to perform in Israel.
Malkovich, who is a leading Oscar contender for his role in Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine, was due to appear in The Music Critic, a theatrical-musical satire composed by the Jewish violinist Aleksey Igudesman, in Tel Aviv’s Charles Bronfman Auditorium on 13 April.
Big gotcha moment incoming!
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I don’t agree with his idea that he can be “non-political”, but it is a well written and understandable statement from him in the article.
It’s all well and good to want to be non-political, but in the current climate, all “non-political” means is that you’re rich enough to ignore other people’s problems because you are secure that they will never become yours. And THAT is where I have an issue.
I will not hate others who refuse to hate others. I will think less of them. But it is the right and privilege of us all to bury our heads in the sand if we wish. This sentiment comes from the fact that there is cruelty and injustice every second of every day. None of us calls it out in totality because if we did, we wouldn’t have voices for laughing or quiet conversations… They would be too busy screaming.
Well yes, for sure. Basically what I’m meaning is that while I respect his right to have that opinion. I in now way respect the opinion itself.
People have a right to be stupid. But that doesn’t extend to having the right to be protected from the consequences of being stupid.
But it is the right and privilege of us all to bury our heads in the sand if we wish.
Privilege yes, right no. Sometimes you stick your head in the sand and the harm comes to you all the same.
I haven’t read the article. There is absolutely no justification for going to Israel unless it’s to impede or protest genocide.
It’s not that I disagree with you - I don’t - but your comment is my number one complaint about Lemmy. It’s a place to rant one’s fixed positions without discussion. To proudly share that you didn’t read the article and then barf your absolutist position… it’s not brave and principled. It’s dumb. Malkovich made some interesting and more nuanced statements on this subject which you didn’t read but I’m thinking at this point you wouldn’t be able to understand them anyway.
I might go to defecate there and spread the pollution an airliner spews, but I wouldn’t spend a single cent there. Israel is lucky we dont consider them an enemy yet. And why we don’t is a mystery and a travesty.
Its not really a mystery. Zionist fifth columnists control your government.
yep, they control the American media/propoganda machines as well. Journalism companies, facebook, Reddit and X too, and evidently ticktock is next. I wonder what they will do about lemmy instances. Its coming. I dont know how we get out of this.
Read the fucking article you dumb ass or enjoy the god damned egg all over your face
He put out a statement that embarrassed Israel. It’s a good thing. You all are a bunch of wet blankets.
Agreed, but wet for a reason. You can be glad someone made a good choice after a bad one, but still not be happy a bad one was made in the first place.
I’m proud of him for standing up and drawing a line in the sand, but disappointed he was walking on the beach to being with.
Why would he plan a gig in Israel in the first place, anyway?
Apparently he considers that play for citizens does not implies complacency with the government, which makes an interesting point, especially if many countries have governments that you condem with some citizens that indeed complain about their governments in there and that may be is your target audience and you want to support… regarding your tolerance threshold vs profesionalism concept it would may be hard to find work at all otherwise. But for sure at a certain point of government abuses, unless you declare openly your support or not, it looks like you tacitly approve it, and the apparent message rises, and then is practically like directly asking the actor about his personal opinion and not wanting to answer, which looks like an answer itself. He may have just met the threshold with the situation, may even be contractually lured into it in the first place and found a “way out”…
I don’t think he is getting that Oscar now.
John Malkovich has always been based.
Why would he even be going there in the first place?
Really, that’s where he draws the line?
Nobody can do anything right anymore am I right?
Not without being sent to a re-education camp a few times until the doctrines become second nature.
“The purity checks will continue until our morale improves.”
He gave his reasoning for the Israel venue that everyone can evaluate for themselves, but drawing the line at libel doesn’t seem that crazy.
People draw the line wherever they feel like they should draw it. Some don’t draw it all.
He doesn’t seem to be drawing a line for anyone here but himself.
That’s really the only line that can be drawn. We don’t draw the line for others. We do draw the line regarding what we tolerate from others. Then it is a question of what actions we can reasonably take when that line is crossed. For most of us, those actions are limited to strong words on the internet.
But unless it’s my line, it’s evil.
