Mark Ruffalo commiserated with attendees on the ACLU of Southern California’s Invoice of Rights Awards on Sunday evening, encouraging them to show “despair” into motion following Donald Trump’s decisive election victory final week.
The “Avengers” actor, a progressive activist who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris, informed the gang on the Beverly Hilton: “We got our asses kicked.”
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but sometimes you have to spend a little time in bed before it happens. It was hard to come here, honestly,” he mentioned, in line with a video shared by The Hollywood Reporter.
Ruffalo, who was amongst the honorees on the American Civil Liberties Union occasion, acknowledged “the grief and the fear” that attendees is likely to be feeling, “because I know I am.”
“We suffered a great loss,” he mentioned. “It’s a loss that touches deeply on so much of what we’ve worked for and we’ve hoped for and dreamed of for such a long time now.”
Then, he recommended one thing “a little unorthodox,” inviting everybody to face and hug the individual subsequent to them. “Tell each other you love each other, it’s going to be OK,” he mentioned.
He ended his speech with a name to motion.
Tommaso Boddi by way of Getty Photographs
“I’ve felt demoralization and despair so many times along the road of all of this, and the message I keep getting is if you’re losing hope, you’re not giving enough and you’re not doing enough,” he concluded, in line with The Hollywood Reporter. “Action is the very thing that pushes back despair.”
Different honorees on the occasion included WNBA star Brittney Griner and her spouse Cherelle, actor Will Ferrell, former “Saturday Night Live” author Harper Steele, and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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The awards are supposed to “pay tribute to individuals who, through their joy, activism, and craft, have dared to create a more just and inclusive world,” in line with ACLU SoCal.
