Ken Loach Slams British Government, Stephen Fry Took A Jive At Trump At BAFTA 2017
Ken Loach, Stephen Fry used the BAFTA awards ceremony 2017, to slam their respective governments over certain issues.
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It
seems
even
BAFTA
cannot
sit
still
when
it
comes
to
taking
a
jive
at
the
state
heads.
Ken
Loach,
after
winning
the
BAFTA
in
the
category
of
Best
British
Film
for
the
movie
I,
Daniel
Blake,
used
his
acceptance
speech
to
rebuke
British
Government
over
unfair
treatment
of
refugees.
The
celebrated
English
director
opened
up
regarding
the
theme
of
his
movie
and
the
British
government's
failure
to
help
refugees.
"Thank
you
to
the
academy
for
endorsing
the
truths
of
what
the
film
says,
which
hundreds
and
thousands
of
people
in
this
country
know,
the
most
vulnerable
and
poorest
are
treated
by
the
Government
with
a
callous
brutality
that
is
disgraceful," said
Laoch.
"A
brutality
that
extends
to
keeping
out
refugee
children
we
promised
to
help
and
that's
a
disgrace
too," Loach
stated
further.
On
the
other
hand,
Stephen
Fry,
renowned
comedian
and
host
of
the
70th
BAFTA
Awards
event
also
took
a
severe
dig
at
the
US
President
Donald
Trump.
Stephen
Fry,
while
calling
up
Oscar-winning
Hollywood
actress
Meryl
Streep,
to
the
award
ceremony,
termed
her
as
"one
of
the
greatest
actresses
of
all-time".
Fry
then
quickly
added,
"Only
a
blithering
idiot
would
think
otherwise."
Now
this
was
certainly
in
reference
to
the
President
Trump's
comment
on
the
actress
Meryl
Streep
when
he
called
her
the
most
"overrated
actress" at
the
74th
Golden
Globes
Awards
held
in
the
last
month.