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After President Donald Trump’s controversial order halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, the big names in Hollywood gathered for the 23rd annual SAG awards.
It seemed like Hollywood had planned to leverage on the night as a way to share their strong opinions about the President’s immigration ban.
David Harbour took the stage with the rest of the 16-ensemble cast of Stranger Things and spoke about being united and standing out against bullies.
According to him:”I would just like to say that in light of all that’s going on in the world today, it’s difficult to celebrate the already celebrated Stranger Things. We are united in that we are all human beings and we are all together on this wonderful painful, horrible painful joyous exciting and mysterious ride that is being alive. We will as per Chief Jim Hopper punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalized and we will do it all with soul with heart and with joy.”
Ashton Kutcher also passed another strong message with his opening remarks. The actor said:” Everyone at airports who belong in my America, you are a part of the fabric of who we are…we welcome you.”
As he accepted his award for best supporting actor in the film ‘Moonlight’ Mahershala Ali shared a very personal story. In his words:”What I learned from working on is that we see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves— and what I was so grateful about in having the opportunity to play Juan was playing a gentleman who saw a young man folding into himself as the result of the persecution of his community, and taking the opportunity to tell him that he mattered, that he was okay, and to accept him, and I hope that we do a better job at that.”
“We kind of get caught up at the minutiae, and the details that make us all different. I think that there’s two ways of seeing that; there’s an opportunity to see the texture of that person and the characteristics that make them unique.”
“And then there’s the opportunity to go to war about it, and say that that person is different from me and I don’t like that, so let’s battle. “
“My mother is an ordained minister, I’m a Muslim; she didn’t do back-flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. “