Susan Sarandon He is one of the Hollywood stars who tend to be active in the defense of human rights. Through her networks and even in every interview she gives, she tries to raise awareness about an issue that keeps her awake. One of these opinions, expressed during the demonstration for a ceasefire in Gaza, led to the actress’ dismissal this week from one of the talent agencies she was part of, the United Talent Agency. based in Beverly Hills, California. Over the days, the protagonist has received support on social networks several times, but this Saturday her son Miles Robbins made a curious request to his mother’s followers.
“Okay, I’m very grateful to see people on Twitter defending my mother amid a new era of McCarthyite blacklisting. But… Can you please stop using the clip of her combing her hair with her breasts out?“Robbins pleaded, the result of the actress’s relationship with her colleague Tim Robbins, on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. The clip she’s referring to shows the Oscar-winning actress, 77, getting ready for a photo shoot in just a dressing gown and a sheer bra.
The Agency United Talent Agencywho is the person who just fired Sarandon, is orchestrated by him Jeremy Zimmer Son of the writer Jill Schary Robinson and the stockbroker Jon Zimmer and grandson of the studio boss Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Dore Schary. Her parents were ranked eighth on Vanity Fair’s 2017 list of the “25 Greatest Families in Hollywood History.” Zimmer, in turn, was ranked No. 33 on The Hollywood Reporter’s 2017 list of the 100 “Most Powerful People in Entertainment.”
News of UTA’s decision reached the media as another fact of the division that exists among Hollywood stars due to the war between the State of Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian political and paramilitary organization. In September, Maha Dakhil, representative of Creative Artists Agency, was forced to resign from the company’s board after he made controversial comments about Israel on social media. “We are currently finding out who is supporting the genocide. That’s the line for me. What is more heartbreaking than witnessing genocide? “I am witnessing the denial that genocide is taking place,” he wrote.
Dakhil later apologized and said, “I made a mistake by reposting a text on my Instagram stories that contained hurtful language. Like many of us, I felt desperate. I am proud to stand on the side of humanity and peace. I am very grateful to Jewish friends and colleagues who pointed out the importance of my words and educated me. I deleted the post immediately. “I’m sorry for the pain I caused.”
This Tuesday, Melissa Barrera joined the controversy. The Mexican actress was fired from the next film in the series Scream after the producer said that their releases were over the Gaza conflict They made “anti-Semitic” comments on social media.
“In the end, I would rather be excluded by those I include than be included by those I exclude,” said the Mexican actress on her channels when news of her exit from the horror film saga broke. He had previously expressed other thoughts on the State of Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian population. In one of them he claimed that Gaza was being “treated like a concentration camp.”
“We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, distortion of the Holocaust or anything that blatantly crosses the line of hate speech,” Spyglass, the studio behind the saga, said in a statement Explanation.
Days after news of Barrera’s firing broke, Jenna Ortega, another protagonist of the saga, announced that she would not take part in Scream 7.