• mang0@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    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.

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      14 hours ago

      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.

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        14 hours ago

        That reason was shit?

        “It’s a chance to share storytelling with Nazis”

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            12 hours ago

            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.

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              12 hours ago

              If you read the comment im referencing then that is quite the simplification of what his trip meant to him

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                11 hours ago

                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.

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                11 hours ago

                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.

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          14 hours ago

          I replied to the wrong comment and can’t find it now. I clicked on a comment that was similar