Javier Bardem Responds To Backlash Against Film Workers For Palestine Pledge

Javier Bardem has responded to the backlash against last year’s Film Workers For Palestine pledge to boycott Israeli film companies “implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people”.

The pledge, launched last fall, attracted thousands of signatories, including Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Mark Ruffalo, Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos and a string of A-list actors and filmmakers, but was later condemned by Warner Bros, Paramount and Hollywood figures including Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, and Greg Berlanti.

Oscar winner Bardem is an executive producer on Palestinian-American filmmaker Cherien Dabis’s latest film, All That’s Left of You, and this week appeared alongside the director for an interview on Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo News. Hasan asked Bardem whether he feared the Hollywood backlash against the pledge, bringing up a report about a supposed Paramount ‘blacklist’ of actors whose views the studio found offensive. A source at Paramount told Deadline this…