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Hollywood activist Cromwell takes lead
Mark Naglazas, The West Australian
Updated June 4, 2013
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It's also one of the rare times in his career that Cromwell has not played a villainous institutional figure, like Jack Bauer's father in 24, but a character that matches his own curmudgeonly anti- establishment self.
Inspired by his father John, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his left-wing sympathies, Cromwell has spent his adult life involved in progressive causes, beginning with his membership of a committee to defend the Black Panther Party (an era covered by the recent Robert Redford film The Company You Keep).
An ethical vegan and a member of PETA, Cromwell was arrested in February this year for interrupting a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting while showing a graphic photo of a cat to protest against the alleged mistreatment of animals on campus.
"All my adult life I've been a rebel and a radical so, yes, I do have a spiritual kinship with Craig, who took a stand for what he believed in, even though he was of an age that you would have expected him to be in an old folks' home," Cromwell says.
"What I like about Craig is that he made his point in his own quiet way and without resorting to what usually happens here in America, which is violence.
"When faced with those kinds of predicaments our response is to strike out.
"The Canadian response is 'Eh, I'm going to do it anyway'.
"I love that. He had the same feelings for questioning authority and resisting it but he didn't turn it into me-versus-them.
"He just went on with his life."
Indeed, Cromwell believes that the reach-for-the-gun attitude that has reached "crisis proportions" in America is fostered by the very industry which has provided him with a nice living for decades.
This is one of the contradictions of left-leaning Hollywood since Cromwell's father was accused by Howard Hughes of being a communist.
"We are a wartime culture. We are like Israel. We have been at war for so long we don't even know what peace is," says Cromwell, who played the US president in the adaptation of the Tom Clancy nuclear-strike thriller The Sum of All Fears. "Every conflict is resolved by somebody taking out a gun and shooting someone. "Look at the young man who was involved in the Boston Marathon bombing.
"They tracked him down and shot him. That doesn't happen in Europe or Canada or Australia."
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Hollywood activist Cromwell takes lead - The West Australian
Mark Naglazas, The West Australian
Updated June 4, 2013
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It's also one of the rare times in his career that Cromwell has not played a villainous institutional figure, like Jack Bauer's father in 24, but a character that matches his own curmudgeonly anti- establishment self.
Inspired by his father John, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his left-wing sympathies, Cromwell has spent his adult life involved in progressive causes, beginning with his membership of a committee to defend the Black Panther Party (an era covered by the recent Robert Redford film The Company You Keep).
An ethical vegan and a member of PETA, Cromwell was arrested in February this year for interrupting a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting while showing a graphic photo of a cat to protest against the alleged mistreatment of animals on campus.
"All my adult life I've been a rebel and a radical so, yes, I do have a spiritual kinship with Craig, who took a stand for what he believed in, even though he was of an age that you would have expected him to be in an old folks' home," Cromwell says.
"What I like about Craig is that he made his point in his own quiet way and without resorting to what usually happens here in America, which is violence.
"When faced with those kinds of predicaments our response is to strike out.
"The Canadian response is 'Eh, I'm going to do it anyway'.
"I love that. He had the same feelings for questioning authority and resisting it but he didn't turn it into me-versus-them.
"He just went on with his life."
Indeed, Cromwell believes that the reach-for-the-gun attitude that has reached "crisis proportions" in America is fostered by the very industry which has provided him with a nice living for decades.
This is one of the contradictions of left-leaning Hollywood since Cromwell's father was accused by Howard Hughes of being a communist.
"We are a wartime culture. We are like Israel. We have been at war for so long we don't even know what peace is," says Cromwell, who played the US president in the adaptation of the Tom Clancy nuclear-strike thriller The Sum of All Fears. "Every conflict is resolved by somebody taking out a gun and shooting someone. "Look at the young man who was involved in the Boston Marathon bombing.
"They tracked him down and shot him. That doesn't happen in Europe or Canada or Australia."
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Hollywood activist Cromwell takes lead - The West Australian