The Hollywood Reporter frets the Tinsel City Resistance received’t get a sequel.
Sunday’s Golden Globes telecast didn’t trash President-Elect Donald Trump. Now, an occasion designed to rally Hollywood’s finest and brightest will go on with only a few names the common American will acknowledge.
Merciless? Possibly. Correct? Sure.
The Live performance for America, a fundraising gala uniting progressive nonprofits, will kick off Jan. 20, AKA Inauguration Day for President-Elect Trump.
A number of the similar suspects gathered in 2017 to equally protest Trump’s D.C. arrival. (even when they didn’t body it that approach). Again then, the gathering attracted some names many know nicely.
Assume Betty Buckley, Bebe Neuwirth, Billy Porter, Ben Vereen, Rosie Perez, Caroline Rhea, Richard Sort and extra. The occasion raised money for teams just like the NAACP, Deliberate Parenthood, Southern Poverty Regulation Middle, Nationwide Immigration Regulation Middle and the Sierra Membership Basis.
Trump is again within the White Home later this month, and we’ll have a brand new Live performance for America to as soon as once more line the coffers of left-leaning teams. It’s one other probability for The Resistance sequel many anticipated after Trump’s Nov. 5 victory.
Besides this time the checklist of stars is stuffed with, “Who’s that?” Deadline.com experiences on the skills on board to help related causes.
Ali Stroker, Anika Larsen, Ann Harada, Arielle Jacobs, Brenda Braxton, Bryce Pinkham, Charlotte d’Amboise, Hennessy Winkler, Jessica Vosk, Judy Gold, Judy Kuhn, Julie Benko, Keala Settle, Kelli O’Hara, Lili Thomas, Lilli Cooper, Liz Callaway, Merle Dandridge, Nina West, Pearl Solar, Piper Perabo, Scarlett Strallen and Shayna Steele.
Perez is again for this 12 months’s occasion, and Perabo is a barely acquainted face on the Hollywood activist circuit. The opposite identify of consequence? Cecily Sturdy, a former “Saturday Evening Stay” participant.
Broadway has been attracting main stars lately, together with Rachel Zegler, Hugh Jackman Lin-Manuel Miranda, Rachel McAdams, Daniel Radcliffe and lots of extra.
They didn’t wish to be a face of the Trump 2.0 resistance, apparently.
The occasion frames itself as apolitical, however a fast have a look at the feedback suggests in any other case.
[Co-producer Seth] Rudetsky: “We will likely be there not solely on Inauguration Day with leisure and calls to motion, however over the subsequent 4 years, too.“
Can’t utter Trump’s identify, after all, within the grand Voldemort custom.
The occasion’s political objective isn’t arduous to suss out. in accordance with Deadline:
Representatives from every of those teams will take part in this system, sharing their tales and letting audiences understand how they may also help with simple calls-to-action to do on the day of the occasion and sooner or later.