Juliet Binoche, 58, French actress, doesn’t want to play clichéd roles. “In the American film world, it has sometimes happened to me that they would call me to play ‘the wife of,'” the US magazine quoted as saying Variety the French at the San Sebastián Film Festival. But she declined such offers, she said. She didn’t want to get into a system “in which women are only viewed in a certain way,” explained the actress. Binoche, who won the 1997 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The English Patient, was honored with the Donostia Honorary Award in San Sebastián.
James Cromwell82, US actor, thinks arrests at animal welfare protests are “not a big deal”https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/.”We’ve been arrested a few times and it seems to make a difference. It wouldn’t otherwise so much fun,” Cromwell, who was glued to the counter at a Starbucks in May, told US magazine Variety. He sees his white skin color as a privilege, which he probably owes to the fact that he does not have worse memories of arrests, he explained. Nevertheless, a police officer once “digged in” the handcuffs when he put them on: “They were mad at us because a police officer’s funeral was taking place at the same time.”
Michael Mittemeier, 56, cabaret artist, thinks vegan white sausages are progressive. “It’s good that the diet is changing. Whether it’s the vegan white sausage or a vegan ‘meat’ plant, it’s a gain,” he told the German Press Agency. “It’s all in the mix. I’m a meat eater, I won’t be able to stop it, but I’m also more aware of it.”
Oliver Pocher, 44, comedian, can get a lot of good things out of a visit to the beer tent at the Oktoberfest in the energy crisis. “It’s nice and warm – and eating up again before the blackout, that fits quite well,” said Pocher of the German Press Agency. Hendl also had certain advantages, he said. “Because of all the antibiotics and you can save yourself the flu vaccination. So either two chickens here or you have to be vaccinated again, that’s the current rule.”