Wunmi Mosaku, star of “Sinners,” recently informed The Sunday Times that the killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good, two American citizens murdered with firearms by federal officials in Minnesota, have prevented her from enjoying her current Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
“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 continued, “[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.”
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Mosaku is not the only Hollywood figure criticizing Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement and ICE. Variety quoted Jamie Lee Curtis as saying that “the ICE situation is out of control” on February 5. She denounced as “abhorrent” the conduct of law enforcement officials in Minnesota and elsewhere.
“Every day I think I’m not going to be shocked anymore and then I’m shocked,” Curtis added on his criticism. “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.”
