The country has been reeling after an ICE agent shot and killed a mother in Minneapolis last week, a horrifying escalation in the violence that’s characterized Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown. You wouldn’t really have known it at the Golden Globes, though — despite major wins for explicitly political projects like The Secret Agent and One Battle After Another, Hollywood largely stuck to business. A couple stars deviated from the apolitical vibe during their time onstage, including Jean Smart, who told the audience there’s “a lot that could be said tonight” and encouraged everyone to “do the right thing.”
While accepting one of her three awards that night, Smart also referred to red-carpet interviews she gave before the show, in which she told Entertainment Tonight that it felt like the recent events had “overshadowed” anything happening at the Golden Globes. “I know that there are people who find it annoying when actors take opportunities like this to talk about social and political things — but I’m not here right now speaking as an actress, I’m just speaking as a citizen and a mom, and I hope people understand that,” she said.
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Speaking to Variety, Smart also acknowledged not feeling “optimistic” about how things are going in the world lately. “Really, this is kind of a moment of reckoning, I think, in this country, and I just hope that people do the right thing, and I think almost everybody knows in their hearts what is the right thing,” she said.
Smart was one of a handful of stars Sunday night wearing a pin that read “BE GOOD,” part of a campaign to honor the life of Renee Nicole Good. Natasha Lyonne was also spotted wearing the pin, as was Wanda Sykes, who called Good’s killing “just awful.” “We need to speak up, we need to be out there, and shut this rogue government down,” she told Variety on the red carpet. Mark Ruffalo, who also wore the pin, slammed Trump in a red-carpet interview with USA Today, calling him “the worst human being.” “This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I’m one of them,” he said. “I love this country. And what I’m seeing here happening is not America.”
