Overview
- In a Variety interview, Esposito said “This is time for a revolution” and added that even if “they’d kill 500 or 50 million,” survivors would “live with a new world.”
- He accused “very rich old white men” of fueling violence and declared “We will not be ICE’d out,” directly criticizing federal immigration enforcement.
- Festival attendees including Tatiana Maslany, Natalie Portman, Natasha Lyonne, Olivia Wilde, and Elijah Wood displayed “ICE Out” pins and joined brief protest actions.
- Right-leaning outlets such as Breitbart, the Daily Wire, the Daily Caller, Fox News, and Blaze Media portrayed the comments as endorsing mass death and sharply criticized the actor.
- The reaction followed January shootings during federal operations in Minneapolis that killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment, Fox reported.