"I'm a big believer in unions.
They have our backs.
They bring us into community and they give us power.
Community means power....
This is really important right now when workers power is being attacked and community is being weakened.
“We actors, we don't manufacture anything tangible.
What we create is #empathy.
Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that
we can touch their souls.
We know why they do what they do.
We feel their joys and their pain.
We have to drill deep....
“While you may hate the behavior of your character, you have to understand and empathize with the traumatized person you are playing, right?
Make no mistake empathy is not weak or #woke.
Woke just means you give a damn about other people.
“A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way.
And even if they are of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our #empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts and welcome them into our tent because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what's coming at us.
“Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements...and asked yourself would you have been #brave enough?
We dont have to wonder anymore because we are in our documentary moment.
This is it.
It's not a rehearsal.
“We mustn't for a moment kid ourselves.
This is big time serious folks.
So let's be brave.
We must not isolate.
We must stay in community
We must help the vulnerable.
We must find ways to project an inspiring vision of the future, one that is beckoning, welcoming, that will help people believe...
There will still be love, there will still be beauty, and there will be an ocean of #truth for us to swim in.”
