The Last of Us actor Pedro Pascal dropped the F bomb on Donald Trump at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival as he he said, “F**k the people that try to make you scared. And fight back.And don’t let them win.” On a question on immigration and the ongoing deportation under the Donald Trump administration, the Game of Thrones actor said it’s very scary for him to speak on issues like this.“I want people to be safe and to be protected, and I want very much to live on the right [side] of history,” he said. “I’m an immigrant”, said Pascal, whose parents fled Pinochet-led Chile when he was nine months old. “We fled a dictatorship, and I was privileged enough to grow up in the US, after asylum in Denmark, and if it weren’t for that, I don’t know what would have happened to us. And so I stand by those needing protection, always.”Asked whether the cast were concerned about reentering the US after making a film (Eddington) with a strong political message, Pascal replied: “Fear is the way they win. So, keep telling the stories. Keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are.”Last month, Barack Obama-appointed District Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts temporarily blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s order, which would have ended legal status for more than 530,000 people admitted to the program within weeks. The judge’s order maintained temporarily legal status for roughly 110,300 Cubans, 210,000 Haitians, 93,100 Nicaraguans, and 117,300 Venezuelans.Trump is separately calling on the Supreme Court to let the administration end temporary legal status for roughly 600,000 Venezuelans, after a federal judge warned that Noem’s attempts to cut humanitarian protections for fleeing immigrants will “inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States”.
