Thor: Ragnarok-regisseur Taika Waititi heeft gereageerd op de schietpartijen in twee Nieuw-Zeelandse moskeeën waarbij 49 mensen om het leven kwamen.

“Mijn hart is gebroken,” tweette de Nieuw-Zeelander, “en ik huil met de rest van het land mee. Ik ga sterven in de wetenschap dat zo’n haat hier kan bestaan.”

Waititi betuigde zijn steun aan de nabestaanden van de slachtoffers en de moslimgemeenschap en voegde eraan toe: “Geef niet toe aan criminelen. In de woorden van Bob Marley: ‘The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness. One Love.’”

De regisseur retweette tevens een oproep van de Nieuw-Zeelandse auteur Khaled Beydoun om de live gestreamde beelden van de terreurdaad niet te delen. Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows-acteur Jemaine Clement is van dezelfde mening.

Ten slotte uitten ook de Nieuw-Zeelandse acteurs Sam Neill en Russell Crowe hun verdriet.

My heart is broken. My country is weeping and so am I. I am dying knowing that this kind of hatred can happen in my homeland. All my love goes out to Christchurch, the victims, the families, the Muslim community, and all who have chosen our islands as their home. This is not us.

— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) March 15, 2019

Do not allow those criminals the satisfaction. Go to Mosque, Church, Synagogue, Marae, Maunga. Sink into community and love. In the words of Bob, "The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness." ❤️ One Love. https://t.co/V6CZVD3LxT

— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) March 15, 2019

https://twitter.com/KhaledBeydoun/status/1106445618120146944

#Christchurch.This beyond grotesque horrific white supremacist terrorist crime in OUR, YOUR little country. With love and heartbreak to the Muslim community of Aotearoa, we are with you. You are us. We are all NewZealanders. #TheyAreUs Kia kaha. We weep together.

— Sam Neill (@TwoPaddocks) March 15, 2019

40 dead in NZ.
Senseless, pointless, cruel deaths.
My heart breaks for all the families involved, and for the beautiful people of New Zealand to whose hearts this pain will attach, for a long time.
Kia Kaha.

— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) March 15, 2019

Bron: IndieWire