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\n The silence that has largely blanketed Hollywood since the Trump administration deployed thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis appeared to crack this weekend in the wake of the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti.\n <\/p>\n
\n Two celebrities known for speaking their values \u2014 \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d star Pedro Pascal and singer Billie Eilish \u2014 were among the loudest.\n <\/p>\n
\n Pascal shared multiple posts to his Instagram Sunday night drawing attention to the killing of both Pretti and Renee Good, who was fatally shot by a federal agent in Minneapolis on January 7.\n <\/p>\n
\n One of Pascal\u2019s posts<\/a> included drawings of Pretti and Good with the words \u201cPretti Good reason for a national strike\u201d along with snippets from a New York Times editorial titled \u201cTwo People Are Dead. Americans Deserve to Know the Truth.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Actress Jamie Lee Curtis shared the same image on Instagram.<\/a> Actor Edward Norton, speaking to the Los Angeles Times at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, also called for<\/a> a general strike.\n <\/p>\n \n Writing on Instagram, Pascal said: \u201cTruth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and authoritarian regime. Mr Pretti and Renee Good are dead. The American people deserve to know what happened.\u201d He also tagged the New York Times.\n <\/p>\n \n On Instagram, Eilish posted to her stories several times, including one calling Pretti \u201ca real American hero.\u201d Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was repeatedly shot<\/a> after being tackled by federal agents in a confrontation caught on video.\n <\/p>\n \n Eilish called out the overwhelming silence from many of America\u2019s cultural luminaries, posting a selfie with the words: \u201chey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up? or\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n By Monday morning, singer Katy Perry was urging<\/a> her Instagram followers to write to their senators.\n <\/p>\n \n The slow roll began over the weekend, as Natalie Portman and Olivia Wilde appeared at Sundance wearing pins reading \u201cICE Out,\u201d which were also donned<\/a> by several actors at the Golden Globes earlier this month.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI could not be prouder to be American right now, by the way the Americans are acting. And I could not be sadder to be American right now with the way the government is behaving,\u201d Portman, whose film \u201cThe Gallerist\u201d is opening at the festival, told Deadline<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n Speaking on the Sundance red carpet, Wilde told<\/a> The Associated Press she was \u201chorrified\u201d by the deaths at the hands of federal agents and that she believed many Americans were as well.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI think it\u2019s appalling,\u201d said Wilde, in Sundance to promote \u201cThe Invite,\u201d which she both stars in and directs.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult to be here and to be celebrating something so joyous and beautiful and positive when we know what\u2019s happening on the streets. Americans are out on the streets marching and demanding justice and we\u2019re there with them.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n Elsewhere, actors Mark Ruffalo and Glenn Close, no strangers to speaking out, also condemned the violence by federal agents.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cAlex Pretti is a hero,\u201d Ruffalo wrote<\/a> on Bluesky, resharing a post about Pretti being a nurse with the Veterans Administration and a dog owner.\n <\/p>\n