Hollywood stars denounce ‘Zone of Interest’ directors controversial Oscars speech

Over 450 Jewish actors, producers, creatives and Hollywood executives have denounced the ‘Zone of Interest’ director's controversial Oscars speech. When the director went up to accept his Academy Award, he delivered an acceptance speech about the Israel-Hamas war. Glazer’s speech was applauded but also met with a private outrage as many disagreed with the contents of it. The Hollywood industry workers released an open letter on Monday, denouncing Glazer’s Oscars acceptance speech. The list of workers contained the names of Jewish actors, producers, creators and executives. Producer of the hit TV series ‘Modern Family’ Ilana Wernick spoke to Variety about Glazer's speech and what led to the open letter. “His words sounded eerily similar to Vanessa Redgrave’s infamous ‘Zionist hoodlum’ speech. Only this time, there was no Paddy Chayefsky to stand up and say the right thing,” she said. “Sadly, Jew-hatred won the day. That’s why so many of us in the industry reached out to each other. It was a very sad, very scary night. Writing the letter wasn’t just cathartic for us. It’s something we had to do.”