#PedroAlmodóvar was on the fence about whether he should even come to the United States to accept his Chaplin Award in light of the actions the Trump administration has taken. The filmmaker behind “Talk to Her” and “The Room Next Door” used his victory as a chance to speak out against the sitting U.S. president during the Lincoln Center’s Annual Gala on Monday night. “I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn’t respect human rights,” Almodóvar said during his acceptance speech. “Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, can not convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine. Zelensky is not a dictator, Putin is.” 🔗 link in bio for more on this story.