Alejandro g. inarritu comments on immigration

Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu hasn’t shied away from slamming President Donald Trump in the past.

In 2015, he delivered a speech denouncing Trump’s proposed border wall. About a year later, in September 2016, he called Mexican president Peña Nieto’s invitation for Trump to visit the country “a betrayal” in a scathing op-ed for El País, writing that the then-Republican presidential nominee had “insulted us, spat on us, and threatened us for more than a year before the entire world… It lacks dignity and in turn strengthens a political campaign of hatred toward us, toward half of humanity, and toward the most vulnerable minorities on the planet.”

But during a Tribeca Film Festival-hosted conversation with performance artist Marina Abramović on Saturday afternoon, months after Trump’s inauguration, Iñárritu largely steered clear of politics.

When Abramović pointedly asked The Re