Hollywoods awards season once again doubled as a platform for progressive politics as several high-profile celebrities turned the Golden Globes red carpet into a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
According to the Daily Caller, actors Mark Ruffalo, Wanda Sykes, and Jean Smart were among those who used the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday to promote the #BeGood campaign, a coordinated effort aimed squarely at ICE and the broader enforcement of U.S. immigration law.
The performers appeared wearing small pins emblazoned with the words BE GOOD, a slogan tied to protests that erupted after the fatal ICE-involved shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota earlier in the week.
The pins were visible both on the red carpet and on stage, signaling that the gesture was not incidental but a deliberate political statement woven into the evenings festivities. For many in Hollywood, the Globes have increasingly become less about entertainment and more about signaling opposition to law enforcement and border security policies that a majority of conservatives view as essential to national sovereignty.
Sykes, 61, made her intentions explicit when she spoke with Variety about the accessory before the ceremony. Of course this is for the mother who was murdered by an ICE agent, she told the outlet, calling the Minnesota shooting really sad and framing the incident as emblematic of a broader systemic problem rather than a specific case still under investigation.
She went on to praise ongoing street demonstrations and urged further escalation of political resistance. I know people are out marching and all today, and we need to speak up, Sykes continued.
We need to be out there and shut this rogue government down because its just awful what theyre doing to people. Her language echoed the rhetoric of left-wing activist groups that routinely portray federal immigration officers as villains, despite the fact that ICE agents are tasked with enforcing laws passed by Congress and signed by presidents of both parties.
Jean Smart, who also wore the BE GOOD pin, used her pre-show interview with Entertainment Tonight to cast the entire evening in the shadow of national political turmoil. Everythings kind of overshadowed by everything thats going on right now in our country, she said, suggesting that even a night dedicated to artistic achievement could not be separated from partisan conflict.
She then offered a more generalized appeal to emotional restraint and civic engagement, while still implying that the country is at a crisis point. She continued, I feel like were kind of at a turning point in this country. I hope people can keep their heads because thats actually, really the hardest thing, I think, is to keep our heads. Its going to take a lot of courage and concerns, but I think thats important.
Later in the evening, after winning Best Female Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy for her role in Hacks, Smart returned to the theme from the stage. Smart later took the stage to accept the award, and continued, Theres just a lot that could be said tonight. I said my rant on the red carpet, so I wont do it here.
She closed her remarks with a moral appeal that, while vague, clearly aligned with the political messaging of the #BeGood campaign. Lets all do the right thing. I think everybody in their hearts knows what the right thing to do is, so lets do the right thing, she told the crowd.
The #BeGood initiative itself, as described by Page Six, was not a spontaneous gesture but a carefully organized campaign backed by a coalition of left-leaning activist groups. Page Six reported that the #BeGood campaign was organized by Marmot, Move On, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Working Families Power and leaders from every sector of the entertainment industry. They noted the movement was also meant to honor Keith Porter, who was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles on New Years Eve.
The organizers framed their effort in lofty, if somewhat nebulous, moral terms that critics say obscure the legal realities of immigration enforcement. The campaign strives to to be good to one another in the face of such horror to be a good citizen, neighbor, friend, ally and human.
Elsewhere during the two-hour broadcast, director Judd Apatow used his time on stage to escalate the rhetoric even further. In a remark that underscored Hollywoods increasingly hostile posture toward the current administration and its supporters, Apatow declared, I believe were a dictatorship now.
For many viewers outside the entertainment bubble, the evenings political theatrics will likely reinforce the perception that Hollywood is deeply out of touch with Americans who support secure borders, respect for law enforcement, and a government constrained by the Constitution rather than by celebrity activism.
While the stars framed their message as a call to be good, their pointed attacks on ICE and the administration highlighted a widening cultural divide between progressive elites on the coasts and citizens who believe that enforcing immigration law is not an act of cruelty, but a basic duty of a sovereign nation.
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