Angelina Jolie took the stage at the San Sebastián Film Festival over the weekend not just to promote her new project, but to deliver yet another political broadside — this time against her own country.
With tears welling in her eyes, the 50-year-old actress sighed heavily before declaring, “I love my country, but at this time, I don’t recognise my country.” Asked what she feared most as both an artist and an American, Jolie launched into a sweeping lament about supposed threats to free speech, insisting that “anything anywhere that divides or limits personal expressions and freedoms from anyone, I think, is very dangerous.”
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— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 21, 2025
The comments, picked up by The Guardian, quickly made waves. But they also raised eyebrows. This is, after all, the same Hollywood figure who has spent decades promoting internationalist causes, lobbying Congress for left-wing policies, and attacking conservative leaders. Her “worldview,” as she herself put it, is “equal, united and international.” In other words: not rooted in the United States she now claims she no longer recognizes.
The irony is thick. Jolie’s plea for free expression comes just days after Disney — her longtime employer — suspended Jimmy Kimmel for spreading falsehoods about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Kimmel had sneered on air that the “MAGA gang” was desperate to deflect blame for the murder, despite no evidence to back up his claim.
The suspension, ordered by Disney CEO Bob Iger and TV chief Dana Walden, has rattled Hollywood. Fellow Disney stars like Olivia Rodrigo, Pedro Pascal, and Mark Ruffalo have loudly criticized the decision.
Jolie’s lament about “dangerous times” is best understood in this context: it’s another entry in the broader campaign by Hollywood elites to circle the wagons and resist accountability when their own step out of line.
.@NolteNC: “Jimmy Kimmel celebrated President Donald Trump getting blacklisted.
Jimmy Kimmel celebrated Tucker Carlson getting fired at Fox News.
Jimmy Kimmel isn’t laughing anymore.Poor Jimmy Kimmel. He thought it was still September 9.” https://t.co/gQjMq3tgJJ
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 18, 2025
This is hardly Jolie’s first foray into politics. She has previously denounced Donald Trump, claiming his administration made her physically ill. In 2021, she lobbied Congress for the so-called Violence Against Women Act, a far-left measure that advanced both anti-gun provisions and radical gender ideology. And, of course, she has spent decades tied to the United Nations — first as a “Goodwill Ambassador” in 2001, and later as a “special envoy,” all while U.S. taxpayer dollars flowed by the billions into the UN’s sprawling bureaucracy.
