{"id":495766,"date":"2026-02-28T14:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495766\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T14:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:40:09","slug":"hollywood-banned-me-after-gaza-ceasefire-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/495766\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Banned Me After Gaza Ceasefire Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSusan Sarandon<\/a> is speaking out about her current film and television career, saying that after she spoke out and called for a ceasefire in Gaza that she was unable to take on roles in the United States.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was fired by my agency, specifically for marching and speaking out about Gaza, for asking for a ceasefire,\u201d Sarandon said. \u201cIt became impossible for me to even be on television. I don\u2019t know lately if it\u2019s changed. I couldn\u2019t do any major film or anything connected with Hollywood. I found agents ultimately in England and in Italy, and I work there. I just did a film in Italy, and I did a play at the Old Vic for a number of months. I know this Italian director that just hired me \u2014 he was told not to hire me, so that\u2019s still recently. He didn\u2019t listen, but they had that conversation. Right now, I kind of specialize in tiny films with directors who have never directed, in independent films.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cThelma and Louise\u201d star also said that Spain has more intellectual freedom than the United States.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIn a place where you feel repression and censorship, to see Spain and to see the president and what he says and the support that he\u2019s giving about Gaza, and to have actors like Javier Bardem come forward with such a strong voice, is so important to us in the United States,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer comments came during a Feb. 27 discussion ahead of receiving the International Goya award in recognition of her career, including \u201cDead Man Walking\u201d and \u201cAtlantic City.\u201d The Spanish Film Academy\u2019s Goya Awards ceremony is set to take place on Feb. 28 in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Sarandon was dropped by UTA<\/a> after she spoke at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch the full discussion below, courtesy of Reuters.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Sarandon is speaking out about her current film and television career, saying that after she spoke out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,80679],"class_list":["post-495766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-susan-sarandon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}