BARCELONA, SPAIN:
Veteran Hollywood star Susan Sarandon on Friday praised the Spanish authorities’s help for Gaza, saying it was “on the correct aspect of historical past”.
“I feel Spain is doing an unimaginable job,” Sarandon, her voice trembling with emotion, advised reporters in Barcelona.
She lauded Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and actors comparable to Oscar-winner Javier Bardem for taking a powerful public stand in help of Palestine.
“If you activate the TV and see how robust Spain is and the way clear you’re morally on these points, it makes you’re feeling much less alone,” Sarandon stated.
The star of “Thelma and Louise” referred to as Spain’s place “so vital” in the US, which she described as “a spot the place you’re feeling repression and censorship”.
Spain’s Sanchez has been one of the vital outspoken critics of Israel’s conflict on Gaza, turning into essentially the most senior European chief to confer with the battle as a “genocide”.
His leftist authorities broke with European allies in 2024 by recognising a Palestinian state, infuriating Israel.
“Each time I’ve seen him, he has been on the correct aspect of historical past and likewise stated it in a really clear manner.” Sarandon stated of Sanchez, describing him as “good-looking and tall”.
Sanchez thanked Sarandon, writing on X that “it’s so transferring for me that somebody the entire of Spain has admired and revered for years has made such a beautiful public assertion about our nation”.
Sarandon is in Barcelona to obtain a lifetime achievement honour at Spain’s prime movie awards, the Goyas.
She received the 1996 Finest Actress Oscar for “Lifeless Man Strolling”, the place she performed a nun who helps a person sentenced to loss of life.
