Overt anti-Trump resistance 'failed to show up’ at glitzy 2025 Sundance Film Festival: Report

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival appears to beryllium avoiding the overtly anti-Trump governmental demonstrations that person go synonymous with the festival successful caller years, according to a study published by Variety connected Tuesday.

After President Donald Trump was inaugurated for his archetypal word successful 2017, the festival was big to countless anti-Trump demonstrations and speeches. Chelsea Handler led a Women's March connected Main Street Park City with implicit 8,000 people, and artists specified arsenic Mary J. Blige utilized their movie premieres arsenic an accidental to denounce the caller president.

As noted by Variety, determination has been a stark opposition betwixt this year's Sundance Film Festival, and years prior.

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Chelsea Handler leads the Women's March connected Main Street Park City connected Jan. 21, 2017, successful Park City, Utah.  (Mat Hayward/GC Images)

"Fast-forward 8 years, and it’s a precise antithetic picture. Trump is backmost successful power, but the absorption question helium sparked failed to amusement up successful Park City," according to Variety.

The media outlet claimed that the deficiency of governmental theatre astatine this year's festival is partially by design, with publicists asking journalists to debar asking their clients governmental questions.

"Publicists implored journalists to debar asking their clients governmental questions, portion celebrities who antecedently came retired swinging against the MAGA question were little anxious to dependable off," Variety said. 

Although determination person been "no large demonstrations against the caller administration," truthful acold this year, according to Variety, galore of the films that premiered astatine the festival "had unmistakable governmental undertones, highlighting communities nether onslaught by Trump and his followers oregon offering alternate visions of the world."

Christian Toto, big of The Hollywood successful Toto Podcast and creator of the amusement website Hollywood successful Toto, weighed successful connected wherefore helium thinks this year's Sundance has been lacking its accustomed governmental stunts.

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Toto told Fox News Digital that helium believes determination are galore factors astatine play.

"Blame respective factors for the anemic Resistance sequel. The manufacture is successful occupation acknowledgment to the pandemic's fallout, the dueling 2023 manufacture strikes and, astir recently, the devastating LA fires. Actors recognize getting overtly governmental doesn't assistance their bottommost enactment astatine specified a challenging time," Toto said.

Hollywood whitethorn beryllium starting to recognize that their power implicit the nationalist has been greatly diminished implicit the past 4 years, with the 2024 predetermination giving this mentation immoderate legs.

Toto pointed retired that celebrities "did each they could to resistance Kamala Harris crossed the decorativeness enactment and it failed. They admit their power is waning and MAGA is connected the rise."

Some of the world's biggest artists, specified arsenic Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland, pictured here, were incapable to successfully person voters to elite Vice President Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Although irrational fears of retribution from the Trump medication against celebrities captious of the president whitethorn besides beryllium playing a portion successful their decisions to laic disconnected authorities astatine this year's festival, according to Toto.

"A fewer stars, and publicists, person an irrational fearfulness that they'll beryllium punished for being captious of each things Trump. That's much projection than thing else. Late-night hosts person been pummeling Trump for astir a decennary and nary 1 is sitting successful his gulag," said Toto.

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