Diego Luna Protests Against Donald Trump's Policy

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The award-winning Mexican actor and director Diego Luna took advantage of his visit to the German capital on the occasion of the Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale, and stood today in front of the largest fragment that still stands on the Berlin Wall to protest against the Donald Trump's policy again.

Accompanied by the director of the film festival Dieter Kosslick and the actor Daniel Brühl, Luna held this act of protest right next to where the exhibition "Topography of Terror" is presented, which denounces the fierce violence by the Nazi government. In this way they join the list of celebrities who show their repudiation against the immigration policy of the President of the United States.

To explain his manifestation in this strategic place, Luna sent a statement to the festival director explaining that this is only intended to be a gesture of "peace and unity." "As citizens of this world we must be concerned and I am glad that the Berlinale is reminding us of this."

As reported by The Associated Press, Luna indicated that in the United States there are many people who disapprove of Trump's policy and asked the world to connect with "that part of the United States that is now resisting."

He also said that this is not the sole responsibility of the artists: “It doesn't matter what you do. We are citizens first and then professionals of whatever we do.”

For his part, Kosslick declared: “Now we want to explain to our Mexican friends how they (the walls) fall down, because they don't just get up. They are the dumbest to build them and we are the smartest, the ones who knock them down again”.

The film director also called the idea of building a wall between Mexico and the United States “crazy” and recalled the past of Berlin, a city divided into an eastern and a western sector for decades.