{"id":74,"date":"2026-05-17T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:07:38","slug":"javier-bardem-says-tide-is-turning-on-hollywood-speaking-up-for-palestine-those-making-blacklists-will-be-the-ones-suffering-the-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Javier Bardem Says Tide Is Turning on Hollywood Speaking Up for Palestine: Those Making Blacklists \u2018Will Be the Ones Suffering the Consequences\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nJavier Bardem thinks the tide is turning in terms of speaking up for Palestine in Hollywood, telling a Cannes Film Festival press conference on Sunday that \u201ceveryone is beginning to realize \u2026 this is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=72\">After \u2018Son of Saul,\u2019 L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes Returns to WWII With \u2018Moulin\u2019 and a Warning About Tyranny: \u2018You Have to Choose Your Side\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Oscar-winning Spanish actor, who is at Cannes with his latest film \u201cThe Beloved,\u201d was asked immediately if he has any fear of suffering consequences in his career for denouncing the war in Gaza. Bardem has been one of the most outspoken actors on the topic, taking the opportunity at the Oscars to say \u201cFree Palestine\u201d while presenting the award for best international feature film.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe fear does exist, granted, but one has to do things even if you feel a bit scared or afraid,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to be able to look at yourself in the mirror, look at yourself in the eyes and that was my case. My mother taught me to be the way I am. There is no plan B. This entails consequences, which I am fully ready to shoulder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBardem noted that he \u201ccan\u2019t corroborate\u201d that there is an actual blacklist, and has actually continued to receive many offers all over the world which makes him believe that \u201cthings are changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cEveryone is beginning to realize \u2014 thanks to the younger generation who is more aware of situations we\u2019re experiencing quite directly on our phones and on other screens \u2014 this is unacceptable. It cannot be justified. And there can be no reason, no explanation for this genocide,\u201d he said. \u201cTherefore, I think what is happening is quite the contrary. I believe that those who are drawing up the so-called blacklists will actually be exposed, and they will be the ones suffering the so-called consequences, at least on a public and social level. And this is a major change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=70\">Kino Lorber Acquires North American Rights to Mark Cousins\u2019 \u2018The Story of Documentary Film\u2019 (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAsked later in the conference for his thoughts on democracy, Bardem also hit out at the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger. \u201cI believe that there is an increasing monopoly in the world of information, that\u2019s one of the problems that we note given Paramount and Warner Bros. and their merger, for example,\u201d he said. \u201cIn terms of information, who is actually going to control all of this, what we\u2019re listening, what we\u2019re seeing? So I think that is very clear and is growing in importance with tech and social networks and rapid, summed-up messages which are very populist. They indeed have an impact on the young generation. That concerns me no end. We have to ensure the younger generation continues to think, apply reason, they need to understand, to compare, to check information. if they don\u2019t it\u2019s very dangerous, indeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBardem told <em>Variety<\/em> in a recent cover story that he\u2019s \u201calways felt that I have microphones and recorders recording my voice, and I have the right to denounce what I think is wrong.\u201d Though there\u2019s been chatter about celebrities who speak up about Gaza being put on a blacklist, the actor said he\u2019s felt as much support as backlash. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cSome people will put you on a blacklist. I cannot tell you if that\u2019s true or not \u2014 I don\u2019t have the facts,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I do have the facts about are the new people that are calling you because they want you in their project. That makes me feel that the narrative that they\u2019ve been using for so long is changing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tBardem is at Cannes with his new film \u201cThe Beloved,\u201d which earned a seven-minute ovation at its premiere on Saturday night. Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, \u201cThe Beloved\u201d sees Bardem play a legendary director who offers his estranged daughter (Victoria Luengo) a role in his latest film under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. But while working together on set brings them closer together than they have been for years, it also reopens old wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=68\">Bombay Berlin Film Productions Launches Four-Doc Slate, Expands as Cross-Border Boutique Studio (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Javier Bardem says the tide is turning in terms of speaking up for Palestine in Hollywood: &#8220;Everyone is beginning to realize this is unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,41,42],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-javier-bardem","tag-the-beloved"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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