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‘Rocketman’ Actor: ‘Trump Leaves Me Hopeless,’ Fears for Children's Future
newbusters.org ^ | 7/26/2019 | Jorge Plaza

Posted on 07/27/2019 7:59:05 AM PDT by rktman

On July 25, Variety released an interview with Jamie Bell about his role as a neo-Nazi in the movie Skin. The award-winning British Billy Elliot star who recently featured in the Elton John biopic Rocketman, gave his comments about the current state of racism in the world, believing that white supremacy has been emboldened by President Trump and saying, "Trump leaves me hopeless.”

In Skin, Bell plays the role of former neo-Nazi Bryon Widner, who co-founded one of the fast-growing white supremacist groups in America. For the film, Bell’s face was coated with the violent and racist tattoos that Widner once donned -- a shocking departure from the Brit’s rosy-cheeked child actor days. According to the Variety interview, Bell believes that Widner’s frightening character is much more real than people would like to imagine.

Leading up to the release of the movie, Bell expressed his concern that the film would be “too explosive” given how supposedly prevalent white supremacy is in America. Speaking nervously with Trump’s “racist” tweets in mind, Bell stated:

We live in a world where it’s being emboldened. They’re walking in the streets, they’re in broad daylight, they’re showing their faces [...] Even now, just this past weekend, the comments that this president has made. Today, he’s doubled down on them.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doit; seeya; uk
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To: rktman
"We live in a world where it’s being emboldened. They’re walking in the streets, they’re in broad daylight, they’re showing their faces"

Are "they" throwing acid on you? Go back to the UK where it's so much better, you idiot.

61 posted on 07/27/2019 10:15:01 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: rktman

Go back to London to kiss the butt of the Islamakazi mayor and his thugs.


62 posted on 07/27/2019 10:40:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Lose the demographic war! You lose your country! Illegals are winning that war across the world!)
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To: rktman

Auditioning for the role of former has-been.


63 posted on 07/27/2019 10:42:45 AM PDT by rhombus10
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To: SaxxonWoods

I have a similar tagline. I may have to resurrect it after the Frau Mueller whining from the left dies down.America is the only country so great that people who hate it won’t leave it.

America is the only country, so great that people who hate it, won’t leave it.


64 posted on 07/27/2019 10:45:03 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Lose the demographic war! You lose your country! Illegals are winning that war across the world!)
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To: rktman

Shut up and get back to counting your money, Jamie.


65 posted on 07/27/2019 10:47:44 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: All
“There seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking.

The United States had become a place where entertainers like _Jamie Bell__ and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.

They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”

― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

66 posted on 07/27/2019 10:51:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Lose the demographic war! You lose your country! Illegals are winning that war across the world!)
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To: MayflowerMadam
6 Never heard of him, and I don’t care about his children’s future.


Here he is the 2008 film "Defiance"as Asael Bielski with a young Mia Waiskowska.


Here he is in the 2015-2017 TV series, "Turn: Washington's Spies", as Abraham Woodhull with actress Heather Lind.

67 posted on 07/27/2019 12:16:31 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: MacNaughton

Read about Woodhull and the spies. Didn’t see the TV show, although I hope to be able to find it on Prime, or DVD. (Is that the series from Brian Kilmeade’s book?) Never heard of this girl, either.


68 posted on 07/27/2019 12:41:31 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: rktman

Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump


69 posted on 07/27/2019 12:58:49 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Popman

“In real life, actual real life WS countrywide probably would fit in a movie theater... “

Define WS.


70 posted on 07/27/2019 1:05:01 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I have never seen a dead horse get up, beat on or not)
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To: rktman

Well I just checked and that film opened yesterday in exactly 2 theaters. This film will open and close quick. Bell can go back to England.


71 posted on 07/27/2019 1:08:36 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: rktman

Why does anybody give a rip about an ACTOR’S opinion? Especially a foreigner?

They get paid to say someone else’s words. That does not require much in the way of analytical thinking.


72 posted on 07/27/2019 1:17:34 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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To: Jim Noble

WS=White supremacist. Sort of like folks who put G*d when they should put God. Just a SWAG though.


73 posted on 07/27/2019 1:23:42 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Jim Noble
Define WS

"White Supremacist"

Define: White people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them.

74 posted on 07/27/2019 1:37:27 PM PDT by Popman
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“Ever heard the expression “not worth the powder it would take to blow him/her up”?”

No. My grandmother used to say, “Not worth powder and shot to blow him to Hell.”


75 posted on 07/27/2019 9:04:58 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: rktman
‘Rocketman’ Actor: ‘Trump Leaves Me Hopeless,’ Fears for Children's Future

The ROCKET your A$$ out of here ASAP!

76 posted on 07/27/2019 9:39:59 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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