Hollywood execs may blacklist Cruz, Bardem for accusing Israel of 'genocide'

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52. The article reports on the reaction of "Hollywood execs"

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which was first reported on at length in the "Hollywood reporter" (linked in the RT article). After this was taken up by some blogs (and discussed briefly here in GD), the London paper The Independent published the story on Sunday.

What you are trying to dismiss as "RT's" "anonymous sources" are actually those of the Hollywood Reporter, they explicitly state that many executives are mulling over what they should do but won't go public with their thoughts, except one: Relativity Media chief executive Ryan Kavanaugh, who wrote in an open letter that Cruz and Bardem (among others) are "either ignorant and shouldn't be commenting or is truly anti-Semitic". He added that he "received more than 500 calls, emails, and texts in approval of his comments in the 24 hours after his comments were published. He said that support included top Hollywood executives."

The Hollywood Reporter goes on to discuss whether it will affect Cruz' and Bardem's career over 7 paragraphs (out of 8) and cites some statements by unnamed executives which could be read as a threat (like Kavanaugh's). "I think the thing any executive or producer will try to calculate before working with Penelope Cruz or Javier Bardem in the near future is what their value is in the all-important international marketplace. And what territories they might have alienated people in by what they said."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stars-face-hollywood-backlash-war-723613

The Independent added: "One producer who has previously worked with Ms Cruz, told the magazine that he privately vowed never to work with the actress again."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/cruz-and-bardem-face-fury-of-hollywood-following-genocide-letter-condemning-israel-9659707.html

The term "blacklist" was brought up by Jon Voight who warned "Don't try to create a blacklist".

So, while everyone who talked to HR and others apparently agree that the letter signed by Cruz and Bardem was an outrage and "anti-Semitic", and ponder if they themselves would ever work with them, a direct and open threat to blacklist and boycott them was not made.

Still, the underlying feelings were made very clear, so concrete actions may depend on the future good behavior of the perpetrators and whether it will be "worth" it to make that concession.

Thus the somewhat sensational, but still careful RT headline "may blacklist".