Hollywood A-Listers To Protest Guns At The Oscars: ‘I’m Wearing The Victim Of Gun Violence

Hollywood A-Listers To Protest Guns At The Oscars: ‘I’m Wearing The Victim Of Gun Violence’

MARLOW STERN02.28.1610:38 AM ET


Brady Campaign President Dan Gross on why several Oscar nominees will be wearing a bracelet to bring awareness to gun violence at tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony.
“What are you wearing?” It’s the question awards nominees dread the most on the red carpet, forcing them to feign interest in whatever fashion house hooked them up with free designers duds. But this year, several Academy Award nominees will give a very unique answer to Ryan Seacrest’s favorite query: I’m wearing the victim of gun violence.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence has decided to join forces with Hollywood for the movie industry’s biggest event in order to shed light on the 33,000 Americans killed every year by gun violence. Best Director nominee Adam McKay (The Big Short), Best Actor nominee Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Oscar winner Patricia Arquette, Steve Carell, and others will be donning black and gold bracelets as part of Brady’s #ENOUGH campaign—an effort to bring awareness to scourge of gun violence in America, and the importance of strict background checks in order to prevent firearms from falling into the wrong hands.

“We developed the concept first and started reaching out once we got the concept, and the reaction was overwhelmingly positive,” Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign, told The Daily Beast. “It seemed like a natural fit with the Oscars and awards season, because one of the most common questions you hear is, ‘What are you wearing?’ and we felt it would be a powerful statement to say, ‘I’m wearing the victim of gun violence.’”


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/hollywood-a-listers-to-protest-guns-at-the-oscars-i-m-wearing-the-victim-of-gun-violence.html

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