{"id":765156,"date":"2026-09-09T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765156\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:22:09","slug":"john-malkovich-pulls-out-of-israel-performance-over-unacceptable-and-untenable-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765156\/","title":{"rendered":"John Malkovich pulls out of Israel performance over \u2018unacceptable and untenable\u2019 press release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cA PR company hired by the Israeli promoter drafted a quote for the article that was attributed to me, though I never made the statements that were quoted, nor was I consulted before they were printed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not utter these phrases, and they most certainly are not approved by me, nor do they reflect my feelings. The fact that they were printed as direct quotes from me is unacceptable and untenable. For this reason, I have decided I cannot participate in the Tel Aviv performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlon Yurick, the show\u2019s Israeli producer, clarified that the original press release contained an incorrect quote resulting from a misunderstanding and apologised for the error,\u201d he went on, before directly disavowing the quotation regarding \u201csolidarity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy appearances would also not condone nor mean that I am in supposed \u2018solidarity\u2019 with any particular political cause, nor with the killing of innocents, nor with any acts of terrorism, nor any other kind of barbarity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly playwrights, novelists and screenwriters can put words in my mouth, and even then, only in the service of storytelling, and no one else should think they can do that without my consent and without the resultant consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA PR company hired by the Israeli promoter drafted a quote for the article that was attributed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,9084,252697,7448,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-israel","tag-israeli-theatre","tag-theatre","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}