And the Screen Actors Guild held its annual awards ceremony on Sunday night, with “Hidden Figures” winning for best film ensemble and Denzel Washington winning a best actor award for his role in “Fences.” The ceremony was dominated by statements of defiance against President Trump’s ban on immigrants from majority-Muslim countries. This is Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who won an award for her role in HBO’s “Veep.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “I want you all to know that I am the daughter of an immigrant. My father fled religious persecution in Nazi-occupied France. And I’m an American patriot, and I love this country. And because I love this country, I am horrified by its blemishes. And this immigrant ban is a blemish, and it is un-American.”