{"id":1994654,"date":"2025-09-03T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1994654"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:38:48","slug":"julian-schnabel-rejects-gaza-activists-call-for-venice-to-disinvite-gal-gadot-and-gerard-butler-from-in-the-hand-of-dante-premiere-over-israel-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/julian-schnabel-rejects-gaza-activists-call-for-venice-to-disinvite-gal-gadot-and-gerard-butler-from-in-the-hand-of-dante-premiere-over-israel-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian Schnabel Rejects Gaza Activists\u2019 Call for Venice to Disinvite Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler From \u2018In the Hand of Dante\u2019 Premiere Over Israel Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Julian Schnabel<\/a> has responded to calls from Gaza activists for Gal Gadot<\/a> and Gerard Butler<\/a>, two of the stars of his new film \u201cIn the Hand of Dante<\/a>,\u201d to be disinvited from Venice Film Festival over their support for Israel.<\/p>\n

Just as the Venice Film Festival started organizers were urged in an open letter by hundreds of international filmmakers and artists to take a \u201cclear and unambiguous stand [in] condemning\u201d the ongoing war in Gaza. Some even called to disinvite celebrities who have shown public support for Israel<\/a>, including Gadot and Butler<\/a>. Though Venice chief Alberto Barbera<\/a> confirmed that they were not disinvited, neither actor is present at the fest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s no reason to boycott artists,\u201d Schnabel responded when asked about the matter during \u201cIn the Hand of Dante<\/a>\u2019s\u201d press conference on Wednesday. \u201cI selected those actors for their merits as actors, and they did an extraordinary…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Julian Schnabel has responded to calls from Gaza activists for Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler, two of the stars of his new film \u201cIn the Hand of Dante,\u201d to be disinvited from Venice Film Festival over their support for Israel. Just as the Venice Film Festival started organizers were urged in an open letter by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1994655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-1994654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Julian-Schnabel-Rejects-Gaza-Activists-Call-for-Venice-to-Disinvite.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}