Posted on 07/12/2005 6:13:50 AM PDT by Frank T
NEW YORK (AP) - Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal says she has learned the hard way not to talk about politics on the red carpet. The 27-year-old actress, who stars in a film about the 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center, said in an interview last April that the United States was "responsible in some way" for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
She later issued a statement through her publicist saying that Sept. 11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world."
"I was so surprised by the way it was misunderstood, and the disdain that came back at me was a real shock," Gyllenhaal told the Daily News for an interview published Sunday. "I regret what I said, but I think my intentions were good."
Gyllenhaal told the newspaper that the backlash taught her "that neither the red carpet nor an interview about a movie is the right place to talk about my politics. I realize I have to be careful, because it's very easy to misunderstand a complicated thought in a complicated world."
Gyllenhaal stars in The Great New Wonderful, which features stories about people living in New York in the aftermath of the terror attacks.
Her screen credits also include Secretary, Mona Lisa Smile and Donnie Darko. She is the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
If you don't agree with her politics, you just didn't understand her complicated message. It not humanly possible that you have a legitimate differing outlook on America's foreign policy and how to respond to threats.
Some people are just so dumb that you have to wonder how they remember to breathe.
I have never heard of her or even her name. Must show how much interest I have in that bunch.
So damn cute. So damn dumb.
Actors and Actresses should just shut up about their personal views, all it does is irritate a good chunk of the people out there who'd watch them whether they are a fan of Bush or they hate him.
They always say they "mean well"--but their criticism is usually about what is wrong with the United States and how we brought this upon ourselves.
These mindless goofball celebrities should take their well-intentioned anti-American remarks and shove them up their Al-Queda.
Maggie ... I wish ... I'd never seen your face!
I would love to hear her take as much time as she likes to fully explain why her notion that America is to blame for 9/11 is anything other than an absolutely repugnant notion. If she wants to expound on that subject for hours at a time, I think it would be a great thing.
Perhaps if someone rapes her, we can blame her choice of clothing for it.
Ignorant parrot.
Wow.
She's the first one...
Someone should smack her upside the head.
All normal people know that if she had any brains, or sense, or ability to do anything other than mimic other people, she would have a real job.
And might be worth taking seriously.
I wish Tom Cruise would recruit her into Scientology, brainwash her and take all her money!!!!!!
"Actors and Actresses should just shut up about their personal views, all it does is..."
Certainly, not alienating some of your audience can be a common sense strategy, for someone in a profession who's salary in part is based on how the public see her.
OTOH, being a free person, she can speak about politics if she wants to. Hey, if it's *that* important to her to get this stuff off her chest, who are we to say not to? However, we are equally free to voice our contrary opinions in response (though the Dixie Chicks apparently disagree with this part of Free Speech), and to refrain from purchasing movie tickets that go towards paying her salary.
The longer I live, the more convinced I am that something I heard as a teenager is absolutely a law of the universe:
B X S = k
Beauty times smarts = a universal constant
With way too few and rare exceptions.
Speaking of the Dixie Chicks, what the heck ever happened to them? They were on top of the world...I've never seen such a fall from grace as what happened to these girls.
A classic liberal non-apology. There must be a college course in this crap.
The reason the dixie chicks fell so fast from grace is because of their audience. If a hip hop artist went off bashing bush he'd probably be hurt a little but not as much(ie madonna), but when a country music artist runs off bashing the president in a foreign country their career is as good as over. Remember now most country music fans lean to the right and they didn't appreciate their president being attacked and they spoke with their freedom of choice, but apparently the dixie chicks didnt thnk they had that right. Didn't hillary clinton or one of these senate females jump on this bandwagon too?
She is partially correct. Bill Clinton, a pseudo-American, is most certainly to blame for 9/11. He had OBL in his hands and refused three times to do anything about it. He did nothing but blather and send off useless missile strikes to stop terrorists. He was spectacularly ineffective against terrorists in in Somalia, in Africa, in NYC after the first WTC bombing, in Saudi Arabia or in Yemen.
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