Actress Sharon Stone doesnât like where the U.S. is heading after choosing President-elect Donald Trump as the next president, stating Americans âare in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.âÂ
Stone, a staunch supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris, spoke at the Torino Film Festival in Italy, per Fox News.
The 66-year-old âBasic Instinctâ star was part of a panel discussion and was asked about the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
She took the opportunity to take a swipe at Trump.
âWe have to stop and think about who we choose for government,â Stone said. âAnd if, in fact, we are actually choosing our government or if the government is choosing itself.â
âYou know, Italy has seen fascism. Italy has seen these things, you guys. And you understand what happens. You have seen this before,â Stone added. âMy country is in the midst of adolescence. Adolescence is very arrogant. Adolescence thinks it knows everything. Adolescence is naive and ignorant and arrogant. And we are in our ignorant, arrogant adolescence.âÂ
Stone, who was awarded the Stella della Mole lifetime achievement award, pointed out how ignorant Americans are.
âSo, Americans who donât travel, who 80% donât have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naĂŻvetĂŠ,â Stone said. âWhat I would say is that the only way that we can help with these issues is to help each other.â
The actress also talked about people helping each other.
âWe must say that good men must help good men, and those good men must be very aware that a lot of their friends are not good men,â she said.
âWe canât continue to pretend that your friends are good men when theyâre not good men. And you must be very clear minded and understand that your friends who are not good men are dangerous, violent men,â Stone added. âAnd you have to keep them away from your daughters, your wives and your girlfriends, because this is the time when we can no longer look away, when bad men are bad.â
Stone wasnât the only American who spoke against their fellow countrymen.
Alec Baldwin spoke at the same festival and called Americans âreally uninformed about reality.â
âTelevision news in the United States is a business. They have to make money,â Baldwin said. âThereâs a hole. Thereâs a vacuum. There is a gap, if you will, in information for Americans.â
âAmericans are very uninformed about reality, whatâs really going on â with climate change, Ukraine, Israel, you name it, all the biggest topics in the world. Americans have an appetite for a little bit of information,â added Baldwin, who also picked up a Stella della Mole lifetime achievement award.
âThat vacuum is filled by the film industry, not just the independent film industry, not just the documentary film industry, which are very important around the world, but by narrative films as well, where the filmmakers and the buyers, the studios and the networks and the streamers are willing to go that way, and theyâre willing to try to make films that are not only entertaining but informative as well,â Baldwin said.
