Actress Cate Blanchett has used the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival to show her solidarity with Palestine. The interpreter wore a dress in which she mixed the colors of the Palestinian flag – green, black and white, on the red of the ground – during the premiere of ‘The Apprentice’, the story of how a young Donald Trump started his real estate business in New York during the seventies and eighties.
The actress, winner of two Oscars, was one of fifty Hollywood stars who signed a manifesto in October last year asking Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire on Gaza from Netanyahu. Among those signatories were also Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Stewart and Susan Sarandon.
Blanchett has been working with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since 2015. In October last year she gave a speech to the European Parliament in which she called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and called for stepping up support for refugees across the world. world. “You have to understand that no one puts their children on a boat unless the water is safer than the land,” she said.