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The Hungarian government reacted after actor George Clooney described Prime Minister Viktor Orban as an example of anger and hatred around the world that could fuel a dystopian future, Reuters reports, citing Agerpres.
Speaking of his latest film, “Midnight Sky,” in which he plays a scientist living in a post-apocalyptic world, George Clooney said: “We are not in the middle of a pandemic when the events of the film occur, but there are still all of them left. the other elements, those elements that speak of how much hatred and anger we all feel at this moment in our history, all over the world, look at Bolsonaro in Brazil or Orban in Hungary ”.
“Look around. There is a lot of anger and hatred. My new movie has an action set in 2049. This is how our reality could look very good if this kind of hatred was allowed to rot,” added the actor.
Viktor Orban, who has been in power in Hungary for more than a decade, has built a self-proclaimed illiberal regime based on a centralized state, a loyal business elite, and a nationalist government ideology.
Criticized for many years by his colleagues in the European Union for eroding the rule of law and civil liberties in Hungary, Viktor Orban and his allies in Poland are fighting new European regulations to strengthen democratic standards, according to Reuters.
Invited by Hungarian state television to comment on George Clooney’s remarks, Budapest government spokesman Ors Farkas said the American actor had taken up the pro-immigration message from Hungarian-born American billionaire George Soros, a corporate promoter open. and a former opponent of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
George Clooney’s words are “stupid,” wrote Hungarian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tamas Menczer in a Facebook post.
“George Clooney is a good actor and therefore deserves respect, but … no one should treat him as a global political oracle. There are people who whisper in his ear what to say,” Tamas Menczer told HirTV Monday night. , a television channel that supports the policies promoted by Viktor Orban.
Until the publication of this information, Reuters did not obtain a point of view from actor George Clooney.
Through his press agent, the American actor sent a statement to the Hungarian news site Telex.hu on Monday night, in which he said that “Orban’s propaganda machine is lying” and that he met with George Soros just once. .
“I would be ashamed if I did not speak out publicly against the kind of authoritarianism practiced by the Orban regime. I was in Hungary in the early 2000s and walked the Danube. At that time, Hungary was a shining example of the success of democracy. I am looking forward to the day when Hungary is back to what it was, “added the American star.
Editing: Monica Bonea
