Robert De Niro
Praises Meryl Streep’s Anti-Trump Globes Speech: ‘It Needed to Be Said’
by Jerome Hudson10 Jan 2017
Actor Robert De Niro
loved Meryl Streep’s anti-Donald Trump
speech Sunday at the Golden Globes so much that he wrote an open letter to
the actress to thank her for inspiring others to speak up.
“What you said was great. It needed to be said, and you
said it beautifully,” De Niro wrote to Streep in a letter
published by People. “I have so much respect for you that you did
it while the world was celebrating your achievements. I share your sentiments
about punks and bullies. Enough is enough.”
De Niro thanked Streep for using her “powerful voice,”
which he says “inspires others to speak up as they should so their voices will
be heard too. It is so important that we ALL speak up.”
While accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement
Award, Streep called Hollywood the most “vilified” segment of American society
following Trump’s election, and called on the media to stand up to Trump “to
hold power to account, to call to the carpet for every outrage.”
While they’ve shared the big screen four times throughout
the years, Streep and De Niro also share disdain for the President-elect.
Last June, Streep
donned orange makeup and a fat suit to lampoon then-candidate
Trump at the annual Shakespeare in the Park Public Theater Gala event
in Central Park.
A month before the election, De Niro said
he’d like to “punch” Trump “in the face.”
The Taxi Driver actor is also no
stranger to controversial speeches.
While accepting his own Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2011, De Niro made some off-color jokes about immigration
and deportation.
“I’m sorry more members of the foreign press aren’t with
us tonight, but many were deported right before the show along with most of the
waiters. And Javier Bardem,” De Niro said to the
sound of groans from the audience.
Meryl Streep
Meryl
Streep is an advisory board member for the Edible Schoolyard, Mamie
Gummer’s mother, a trustee at the Vassar
College, and was a co-founder for Mothers
and Others.
Note: Anne M. Tatlock was
a trustee at the Vassar College, a
director at the National September 11
Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Robert De Niro is
a director at the National September 11
Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and a co-founder &
co-chairman for the Tribeca Film
Institute.
Jane L. Rosenthal
is a director at the National September
11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and a co-founder &
co-chairman for
the Tribeca Film Institute.
Scott Rechler is
a director at the National September 11
Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, and a co-chairman for the Tribeca Film Institute.
Norman Pearlstine
is a director at the Tribeca Film
Institute, and was a chief content officer for Bloomberg LP.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the chairman for the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center, the founder
of Bloomberg LP, the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, Emma Bloomberg’s father, was a
benefactor for the Harlem Children's
Zone, a donor for the Robin Hood
Foundation, and an advocate for the ONE
Campaign.
George
Soros was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, the Robin
Hood Foundation, the International
Rescue Committee, and the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
John F. Kennedy
Jr. was a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and the Sexiest Man Alive 1988 in People.
Robin Hood
Foundation was a funder for the Harlem
Village Academies.
Hugh Jackman is a
director at the Harlem Village Academies,
and the Sexiest Man Alive 2008 in People.
Emma Bloomberg
was the chief of staff for the Robin
Hood Foundation, is Michael R.
Bloomberg’s daughter, and a director at the Bloomberg Family Foundation.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City.
Jonathan M. Tisch
is a member, board of adviser’s for the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City, and was a director at the Tribeca Film Institute.
Robert De Niro is
a co-founder & co-chairman for the Tribeca
Film Institute, and a director at the National
September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center.
Ronald O. Perelman
member, board of adviser’s for the Mayor's
Fund to Advance New York City, and a director at the ONE Campaign.
Michelle Obama was
an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
ONE Campaign is
a partner with the International Rescue
Committee.
Liv
Ullmann is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and an honorary chair for the Women's Refugee Commission.
Glenda K.
Burkhart was an overseer & director at the International Rescue Committee, and a co-chair for the Women's Refugee Commission.
Robin Fray Carey
was a co-chair for the International
Rescue Committee, and a co-chair for the Women's Refugee Commission.
Dina
Dublon was an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a chair for the Women's
Refugee Commission.
Kathleen Newland
is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and was a chair for the Women's Refugee Commission.
Catherine O'Neill
was an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, and a founding chair for the Women's Refugee Commission.
Mamie
Gummer is an ambassador for the Women's
Refugee Commission, and Meryl Streep’s daughter.
Meryl
Streep is Mamie Gummer’s mother,
a trustee at the Vassar College, an
advisory board member for the Edible
Schoolyard, and was a co-founder for Mothers
and Others.
Mothers and
Others was a program for the Natural
Resources Defense Council.
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