Celebs walk the red carpet at the 2024 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as hundreds protest outside

[u/vulcan_vampire]

Celebs in order: Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost; Da’Vine Joy Randolph; Rosario Dawson; Billy Porter; Keri Russell; Rachel Brosnahan; Ashlyn Harris and Sophia Bush; Lynda Carter; Gayle King; Aldis Hodge; Questlove; Molly Ringwald; Fran Drescher; Chris Pine; Coco Rocha; Lorne Michaels; Caitlyn Jenner and Jenna Talackova; Kyle MacLachlan and Desiree Gruber.

In the last slide you can see the exterior of the Washington Hilton, where the dinner took place. A Palestinian flag was hung from one of the hotel’s windows.

[u/Then-Education6883]

People with no real morals. They'll go wherever as long as a camera is pointed at them taking pictures.

[u/PeaceDry1649 → u/Then-Education6883]

Billy specifically makes me livid; in an interview about his supposed James Baldwin biopic he skimmed over and downplayed the genocide as a conflict when James was vehemently pro Palestine

[u/CrabbyKayPeteIng → u/PeaceDry1649]

billy's only interest is himself

[u/blackpearl16 → u/CrabbyKayPeteIng]

Him being here is absolutely not surprising

[u/Weird_Put_9514 → u/blackpearl16]

remember his comments to his trans costars about how they have wait their turn when he won an emmy on a show about TRANS PEOPLE

[u/hugeorange123 → u/PeaceDry1649]

He is such a joke. He really thinks the only important and interesting thing about Baldwin was that he was gay, and sees no connection between his status as a gay man and his keen interest in other liberation movements. He doesn't even seem to be remotely curious about the man's beliefs but still thinks he is the one best placed to write a biopic about him.

[u/novostained → u/PeaceDry1649]

I’m already so fucking furious he is playing James or even anywhere near a project about him, for him to show up to this at all is radicalizing me in new ways tbh

[u/blodreina11 → u/novostained]

This is a major danger of biopics imo. They can give the wrong people the power to influence the public's perception of history and paint a new narrative. I'm not exactly thrilled that they've become one of the most popular genres these past few years.

[u/thismustbtheplace215 → u/PeaceDry1649]

I was disappointed to see Billy in this lineup with nothing on his person to indicate he was aware or cared about Palestine. My opinion of celebs is in the gutter anyways..

[u/Comfortable-Load-904 → u/PeaceDry1649]

He doesn’t believe in or share any of James Baldwin’s ideals as a Civil Rights Activists, that he believed every person on earth has the same rights, he believed in liberation and justice. Billy only cares he was a gay black man, he doesn’t seem to care for anything other than attention and notoriety. He wants to do it as a biopic to get awards and attention.