Sharon Stone has shared her thoughts on the current state of US politics, saying that “extraordinary naïveté” has led the country to a period of “ignorant, arrogant adolescence.”
As reported by Fox News, in a panel at Italy’s Torino Film Festival on Monday (November 25), where she accepted the Stella della Mole lifetime achievement award, Stone answered a question addressing the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which was commemorated on the day of the event.
“We have to stop and think about who we choose for government,” Stone said, referring to the recent US presidential election results, which saw the re-election of former president Donald Trump. “And if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself.”
She continued: “You know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things, you guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before.”
“My country is in the midst of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.”
Sharon Stone at 42nd Torino Film Festival 2024. CREDIT: Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images
She elaborates on the current moment in the US: “Americans who don’t travel, who 80 per cent don’t have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naïveté. What I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.”
Stone then circles back to the thrust of the journalist’s question, stating that preventing violence against women isn’t only that “women should help women” – that men “must be very clear minded and understand that your friends who are not good men are dangerous, violent men.”
Upon the reveal of the election results, figures in entertainment expressed fears and concerns over female and reproductive rights following Trump’s victory, with Billie Eilish calling his win a “war on women”.
The actress’ comments were not the only one that addressed US politics – Alec Baldwin, who was in town to present a screening of 1990 film The Hunt For Red October, said that “Americans are very uninformed about reality” and on “what’s really going on.”
“With climate change, Ukraine, Israel … you name it,” he continued. “All the biggest topics in the world, Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information.”
At the festival, Baldwin also admitted that he does not intend to watch the final cut of Rust, which saw an ill-fated production resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin was charged with involuntary manslaughter before a judge dismissed the case on July 12.
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