The ongoing conflict in Gaza has reached the Venice Film Festival this year in various ways, from protests to Wednesday night’s world premiere of The Voice of Hind Rajab. It also came up on Wednesday during this afternoon’s press conference for The Hand of Dante when veteran artist and auteur Julian Schnabel declined to address the war directly while dismissing calls that his actors should face a boycott here or anywhere.
“There’s no reason to boycott artists,” Schnabel said flatly. “I selected those actors for their merits as actors and they did an extraordinary job in the film. That’s about it. As far as [the conflict in Gaza], I think we should talk about the movie, rather than this issue.”
Schnabel’s comments come on the heels of a pro-Palestinian group requesting that invitations for Israeli star Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler be rescinded from the festival. Prior to Gadot’s career as an actress,…
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