{"id":2046935,"date":"2025-09-24T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2046935"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:40:17","slug":"angelina-jolie-asked-about-free-expression-at-film-festival-amid-trump-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/angelina-jolie-asked-about-free-expression-at-film-festival-amid-trump-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie Asked About Free Expression At Film Festival Amid Trump Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A reporter at the San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival in Spain asked Hollywood star <strong>Angelina Jolie<\/strong> about challenges to free expression, an unspoken nod to President Donald Trump\u2019s crackdown on the media.<\/p>\n<p>The media world was shaken last Wednesday night by the news that ABC\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/breaking-nexstar-no-longer-air-223329146.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:had suspended;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">had suspended<\/a> Kimmel\u2019s show \u201cindefinitely\u201d (he has since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/tv\/articles\/defiant-jimmy-kimmel-comes-swinging-040725219.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:been reinstated;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">been reinstated<\/a>) just hours after he was targeted by <strong>Brendan Carr<\/strong>, President Trump\u2019s hand-picked FCC commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>But that action was the culmination of what is widely seen as a crackdown on speech and the media that i<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/pam-bondi-threatens-charges-over-office-depot-employee-who-refused-to-print-charlie-kirk-flyers-we-can-prosecute-you\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ncludes threats;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ncludes threats<\/a> of punishment for so-called \u201chate speech\u201d and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/cnn-kaitlan-collins-torpedoes-trump-130101742.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:excessive criticism;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">excessive criticism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns over the issue reached across the ocean as Jolie <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UVEeDHr3RVs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:held;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">held<\/a> a joint press conference in support of her film Couture, and was asked a pointed question by film critic <strong>Mar\u00eda Guerra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jolie took some very long pauses and acknowledged she was being \u201ccareful\u201d in her response, but said she doesn\u2019t \u201crecognize my country\u201d:<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TRANSLATOR: Hi, good afternoon. Maria Guerra from Kinotico, a question for Angelina Jolie. The US is going through a\u2026 The US is going through a concerning period of time due to the freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the US, you\u2019re a free woman who has raised your voice in favor of many causes. What are you afraid of at this present moment as an artist and as an American in regards to the US?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ANGELINA JOLIE: Oh. (LONG PAUSE) I don\u2019t\u2013. (LONG PAUSE) It\u2019s obviously a very difficult question, only to say that I love my country, and\u2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But I don\u2019t at this time recognize my country. And I think that\u2019s, but I am. I\u2019ve always lived internationally, I\u2019ve always\u2013 my family\u2019s international, my friends, my life, my world view is equal, united, international.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So anything, anywhere that divides or of course limits personal expressions, and freedoms and\u2013 from anyone, I think is very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And I think these are such serious times that we have to be careful not to say things casually. So I\u2019ll be careful during a press conference, but to say that of course like all of you and everyone watching them, you know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">These are very very heavy times we\u2019re all living in together .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter at the San Sebasti\u00e1n Film Festival in Spain asked Hollywood star Angelina Jolie about challenges to free expression, an unspoken nod to President Donald Trump\u2019s crackdown on the media. The media world was shaken last Wednesday night by the news that ABC\u00a0had suspended Kimmel\u2019s show \u201cindefinitely\u201d (he has since been reinstated) just hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046936,"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":[26993,317163,377202,379544,379545,309938,359686],"class_list":["post-2046935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-angelina-jolie","tag-film-festival","tag-free-expression","tag-maria-guerra","tag-media-world","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-san-sebastian-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Angelina-Jolie-Asked-About-Free-Expression-At-Film-Festival-Amid.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046935","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=2046935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}