“Silence is very dangerous, we should be able to say what we think without being threatened with never working again.” The phrase was spoken by Susan Sarandon a few months ago in Spain during her acceptance speech for the honorary Goya awarded to her by the Film Academy. This Sunday in Venice, she insisted again. She did so not so much because of the film she was presenting, but despite it, or alongside it, or thanks to it. However you want to put it. “Lately I have been dropped from some projects because there are agencies that keep telling people not to hire me,” she said at the Lido as if continuing what she said in February in Barcelona. “But that’s how things are. I do believe, however, that outside my country, I am welcome,” she concluded.
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The Echo Chamber is a story of love and pain. Italian Andrea Pallaoro makes his own the last script signed by Bernardo Bertolucci to reconstruct the relationship of passion and dependence, of sex and talks with wine, of presence and absence, of freedom and simple slavery between the characters played by Luca Marinelli and Alicia Vikander. The first is a music producer and the second a nurse. The first suffers and the second soothes. And in the middle, Susan Sarandon who brings to life a singer with the gesture and poise of an eternal myth; in cinema and in song. She is a widow and lonely woman who little by little learns to use suffering to create, which is how she calms, not heals, a wound of the unfathomable.
Sarandon stated this Sunday that Pallaoro had been warned not to work with her because of the bad consequences it could bring for him and for the film itself regarding its distribution in his country, a country, she said, “where the Zionist lobby still has a lot of power.” “Therefore, I thank Andrea for not heeding my warnings,” she added.
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Recall, in 2023 the Oscar winner for Dead Man Walking (1995) was fired by her agency after comments she made at a pro-Palestinian demonstration. And earlier this year, when it came to the Goyas, she declared feeling marginalized by the industry for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Given this, when asked at the Venice Festival press conference if, despite everything, she believed something was changing in the United States, she slightly contradicted herself and showed minimal optimism: “I think that, despite everything, the narrative has completely changed regarding the historical relevance of Palestine and the links of the Zionists with the United States and our politics. That has been a great revelation for people. No one really understands why we are giving so much money to Israel,” she said. And she continued: “There has been a change in public opinion, but there are still positions in my industry occupied by Zionists who have not softened their feelings towards me.” And having said that, she concluded: “But I found my family, I found my people. And I am fine.”
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