VIDEO Oscar winner's harsh speech on “toxic males” Trump, Putin and Netanyahu: “Behavior that leads to thousands of deaths”
Spanish star Javier Bardem criticized the three leaders in a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, suggesting that the “toxic masculinity” of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu is leading to wars, according to AFP.
“I'm 57 years old, I come from a very misogynistic country called Spain, where there is an average of two women killed, per month, by their ex-husbands or their ex-boyfriends, which is horrible (…), it's unbelievable, and we've kind of normalized this. Have we gone crazy? Are we killing women because some men think they own them, possess them?”, said Javier Bardem.
He claims “this problem also affects” US President Donald Trump, Russian leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he accused of engaging in “damn toxic male behavior that leads to thousands of deaths.”
The actor believes that “toxic masculinity” has its origins in “the bad education that we have received for many centuries”.
Bardem, who won the Oscar for best supporting actor in 2008 for his performance in “No Country for Old Men,” plays a hot-tempered director in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's “The Beloved,” which premiered Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.
Javier Bardem accuses Israel of 'genocide'
The Spanish actor has been one of the film industry's most vocal critics of Israel's Gaza offensive, which Israel launched in response to the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
The Israeli military campaign has devastated Palestinian territory and killed more than 72,000 people, more than half of them women and children, according to the local Hamas-run Health Ministry.
A “genocide” is still being committed, claims Javier Bardem.
“It's a fact. You can try to justify it, explain it, but it's a fact. If you justify it with your silence or your support, you're pro-genocide,” he added.
Israel denies the accusations of genocide. The Hamas attack, which prompted Israeli retaliation, killed 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
