Monday evening, the award-winning actor-director Diego Luna became the first Mexican to organize a talk show at the end of the evening in English.
Filling for the holder “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Host, who was on vacation, Luna took over as a special animator of the comedy show at the end of the evening and took the opportunity to speak for the community of immigrants.
The star of the successful television series “Andor”, which made its international breakthrough in 2002 with the film nominated at the Oscars of Alfonso Cuarón “Y Tu Mamá También”, Luna thanked the people who helped him to feel less “at home” as 20 years trying to do it in Hollywood.
“The people who held me were mainly people who had left their country to find a new life, or the sons and daughters of immigrants who had come here to work and build a healthy, pleasant and dignified life, far from their place of origin,” said Luna. “A movement of this scale is not natural, not unless something is very, very pain where you come from.”
Luna alluded to the current raids targeting undocumented immigrants in the Grand Los Angeles region, where federal agents were sent by the Ministry of Internal Security. When Angelenos took has The streets in protestPresident Trump wrote that he deployed the National Guard “Temporarily protect ice and other members of the US government staff who perform federal functions.” This decision was criticized by the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, who said that “would only increase tensions.”
During her monologue, Luna cited the demonstrations in Los Angeles as a “powerful example” of what a city looks like when he puts “empathy first”.
“Earlier this year, when burned – immigrant workers risked their lives to stop the flames,” said Luna. “They are the ones who build this country, they nourish it, they nourish and teach their children, they care about the elderly, they work in construction and hospitality, they direct kitchens.”
“All the people I met shared a tacit gratitude to this country, a country that opened its doors to them. And the most beautiful thing of all is that all these immigrants brought their stories with them, they brought their loyalty, their love and their traditions, always with the opening to adopt new ones, to grow and complement each other in this vast cultural exchange. ”
The Luna segment was followed with invited appearances of her co-star “Andor” Adria Arjona, the actress Patton Oswalt, as well as the singer of Los Angeles, who interpreted her original song, “Classy”.
Before the closure, Luna encouraged viewers to donate to organizations like Counsel Public, a pro-Bono law firm offering resources to immigrant communities, and children who need defense, who was founded by Angelina Jolie and Microsoft to support unaccompanied migrant children.
