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13-05-2025
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Juliette Binoche Dodges Question About Cinema Figures' Gaza Open Letter At Cannes Press Conference
When Cannes Film Festival Jury President Juliette Binoche was asked today why she didn't sign a global film industry open letter condemning the 'silence' over the deadly impact of Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza; The English Patient Oscar winner told a reporter 'I cannot answer you.' 'You will maybe understand it a little later,' the actress said. More from Deadline Cannes Jury President Juliette Binoche On Trump's Movie & TV Tariffs: "He's Fighting To Save America And To Save His Ass" 'Jigsaw', 'Winchester' & 'Daybreakers' Duo The Spierig Brothers Line Up Genre Movie 'Headless'; Altitude Launching For Cannes Market 'Sons Of The Neon Night' Clip: A Family Empire Falls Into Chaos In Snow-Covered Hong Kong In Cannes Midnight Screenings Feature Binoche at this afternoon's Cannes jury press conference was asked by Al Jazeera English about the open letter that was released on the eve of the festival with signatures from more than 350 cinema world figures including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem. 'In Cannes, the horror Gaza must not be silenced,' read the letter. Binoche was questioned on why she did not sign the letter herself, despite being 'well-known for speaking out about a variety of causes.' After a long hesitation, she refused to answer but insisted that there was a reason for her decision. The letter, published on the website of France's Libération newspaper on Monday evening, was addressed 'For Fatem', in memory of 25-year-old Gaza artist and photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. The young woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April just 24 hours after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi's documentary Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk, exploring Hassouna's life in the Gaza Strip, would world premiere in the parallel Cannes section ACID. Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed in same strike. Politics, particularly on the global scale, have always found a place here at Cannes, and today Binoche also fielded queries about Donald Trump's possible film and TV import tariffs as well as the latest guilty verdict dispensed in a Paris court to her Let the Sunshine In co-star Gérard Depardieu for sexual assault on the set of Jean Becker's The Green Shutters in 2021. Binoche's jury members at the 78th Cannes include Halle Berry, Payal Kapadia, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sangsoo, Carlos Reygadas and Jeremy Strong. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
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16-04-2025
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Gayle King Mocked After Comparing Herself To Space Pioneer
'CBS Mornings' co-host Gayle King made a bold claim about her 10-minute jaunt into space on Monday and inspired a wave of social media mockery in the process. King was one of six women launched into space via billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company. Although the all-female flight was criticized in part for the pseudo-feminism that accompanied it, King told Extra TV that two crew members on board 'were actually doing experiments.' King, who admitted she is a 'nervous flyer,' said she still has a hard time calling herself an 'astronaut' after the suborbital flight, but argued that the way people have minimized the voyage is 'disrespectful.' 'You never see a man, a male astronaut who's going up in space, and they say, 'Oh, he took a ride,'' she pointed out. King then suggested that she and the rest of the crew had something in common with the first American to travel into space. 'We actually duplicated the route that Alan Shepard did. … No one said, 'He took that ride.' It's always referred to as a flight or a journey, so I feel that that's a little disrespectful to what the mission was and the work that Blue Origin does.' Still, King's comparison to Shepard quickly inspired ridicule on social media. Entertainment publicist Danny Deraney thought it would be fun to follow King's lead and encouraged X users to post 'something special you did that somebody famous did and makes you stand out.' Let's have some fun. According to Gayle King, she did what Alan Shepherd did, so this makes her an astronaut. What is something special you did that somebody famous did and makes you stand out? — Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) April 15, 2025 Deraney then described his own brush with greatness. 'So, I stood in the ocean in Normandy, France,' he wrote. 'Just like our Allies. So now I am pretty much a member of Allied Forces.' So, I stood in the ocean in Normandy, France. Just like our Allies. So now I am pretty much a member of Allied Forces. — Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) April 15, 2025 Other people joined in with their own claims of greatness. I was snorkeling and saw a bunch of that make me like Jacques Cousteau . — Danny Rankin (@DanNorCal) April 15, 2025 I've been on plane, I guess I'm a pilot now. — Susie S. (@MissSusie66) April 15, 2025 I once sat in the cockpit of a passenger jet pretending to be a pilot so I am an Oscar winning actor like Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. — James Stewart (@jambon75) April 15, 2025 I was president of my 5th grade class - call me Lincoln — Frank Malfitano (@FrankMalfitano) April 15, 2025 I have written in a notebook whilst having a coffee at Les Deux Magots in Paris. This makes me Simone de Bouvoir. But only when I am not Ernest Hemingway. — Linda B 🐾🌊💙🌻🇺🇦❤️☮️✡️ (@Mom_of_Gus) April 15, 2025 So I went to the Oscars and walked down the red carpet and everything. It was the year of the English Patient and Fargo. On the way to the Governor's Ball, Ralph Fiennes elbowed me in the boob. It was crowded and he is short. No hard feelings. 😉 — Bodily autonomy is the foundation of liberty. (@6pounddog) April 15, 2025 So I have flown across the Atlantic (in British Airways A380) so that makes me and Lindbergh the same right? The equivalent risk? Gayle rode the world's most expensive thrill ride. Being an astronaut is a job. — Court Marshall (@cmarsh3409) April 15, 2025 Victoria Beckham's body guard pushed me aside on a street in Paris. So I guess I'm a Spice Girl now. PS I was simply walking on the street. — Pamela Capriotti (@PamelaCapriotti) April 15, 2025 Joe Perry once stepped on my foot, so I am the de facto lead guitarist of Aerosmith. — mostly positive phenn 🤠 (@phenn) April 15, 2025 But one person had an absurd achievement that topped everyone else's: I flew on a plane from LA to NY once with Gayle King in first class. I guess that makes me Oprah. I flew on a plane from LA to NY once with Gayle King in first class. I guess that makes me Oprah. — 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆🩷🧡 (@CharlyBaltimore) April 15, 2025 King's full interview is below. Her remarks on Shepard start around the 10:07 mark. Gayle King Had 1 Hilarious Response To Viral Memes About Her Voyage To Space Blue Origin Launches An All-Female Celebrity Crew With Katy Perry, Gayle King And Lauren Sanchez Emily Ratajkowski Says She's 'Disgusted' By Katy Perry's Trip To Space, And Many Agree Lauren Sanchez Blasts Blue Origin Critics, Says They Should Do This 1 Thing Before Commenting
