Alec Baldwin says Americans are 'very uninformed about reality'
Actor Alec Baldwin said that Americans face an information "gap" and added that the film industry helps fill it.
"There is a gap, if you will, in information for Americans," Baldwin told reporters at the Torino Film Festival in Turin, Italy, as reported by Mediaite.
"Americans are very uninformed about reality, what’s really going on — 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," he later added at the event, where he received an award and his film, "The Hunt for Red October," was shown.
Baldwin also suggested that the gap can be filled by the film industry, adding that this current point in history is a significant one for helping to inform people in that way.
"That 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 they’re willing to try to make films that are not only entertaining but informative as well," he said.
"Now is probably one of the most important times in our history for us to make films that will teach people about what reality is around the world," Baldwin added.
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