“Sinners” star Wunmi Mosaku recently told The Sunday Times that she hasn’t been able to enjoy her recent Oscar nomination for best supporting actress because of the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, two American citizens who were shot and killed by federal agents in Minnesota.
“I’ve not been able to celebrate because of what’s going on right now, with the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minnesota and the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy,” Mosaku said. “It’s difficult to hold both the nomination and the news because one feels beautiful and one is so dark and heavy; truly dystopian — how can I possibly go out and buy some drinks and enjoy the moment?”
She added, “[My husband] is not as shocked as I am at the news. There’s a very strange American psyche where terrible things happen and people still can go to work the next day, whereas I’m floored for a week and think, ‘How are people going to crowded places when this has just happened?’ I want a cocoon. My reaction reminds him that this is not normal.”
Mosaku isn’t the only one in Hollywood speaking out against ICE and Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown. On Feb. 5, Jamie Lee Curtis told Variety that “the ICE situation is out of control.” She slammed the actions of federal agents in Minnesota and beyond as an “abhorrence.”
“Every day I think I’m not going to be shocked anymore and then I’m shocked,” Curtis said. “It’s just inhuman. It is inhuman the way this administration is treating its citizens and its constituents and people in need. It’s an abhorrence what they’re doing. The ICE situation is out of control. It’s simply a distraction so that we don’t pay attention to the Epstein files.”
Whoopi Goldberg got visibly emotional in a Jan. 26 episode of “The View,” during which she called out Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and border patrol commander Gregory Bovino over the death of Pretti.
“Kristi Noem, you can’t justify this. Mr. Bovino, you can’t justify this,” she said. “You can’t justify either one, and we all see it and we see you for what you are. You all have blood on your hands.”
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