Ian Somerhalder, Louisiana native and 'Lost' and 'The Vampire Diaries' star Ian Somerhalder is upset about BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But he's especially miffed at Hollywood's weak support for the catastrophe.
"Coming from the entertainment world, I'm really shaken by how quiet Hollywood is," Somerhalder, 31, tells E! Online. "And I say that out of respect for my peers and colleagues, but I'm really bummed that no one is really coming up to help the situation. This is ground zero right now. This place is going to need money, that is the bottom line."
Somerhalder recently told the LA Times, "I never talk about politics, but right now is a time to be angry and sad."
Somerhalder, who hails from Covington, Louisiana, is doing his part assisting at the animal shelter St. Tammany's Humane Society where pelicans harmed by the oil slick are being treated. He recently filmed a public service announcement in his hometown.
""There's so many people here working around the clock to try and tame this beast," he says of the situation. "If you look at all these beaches right here. It's a June afternoon -- this beach would be littered with families, kids playing, dads on the pier with their buddies fishing. None of that's here ... The things you remember, the times you spent with your parents or your grandparents, brothers, sisters, fishing and learning about the ecology here is ... it's your base, it's your root and you'll do anything, you will fight tooth and nail to protect it."
I was wondering the same dang thing!! Why isn't this disaster as much of a 'crisis' as Katrina, Haiti or even the huge, Save the Music campaigns! After all, aren't they always berating us with their opinions on how the environment is being destroyed?? Where are they now??
ReplyDeleteYou are so right. Amazing isn't it?
ReplyDeleteGood for you Ian. But what he doesn't understand is that the entire mess fits right in with Hollywood's liberal agenda...I'm sure they were all screaming with glee the other night when the Celebudent started harping on "green energy." What they don't understand AT ALL is that the EPA was formed by a democrat, and through many presidents, Rep and Dem alike, they have done NOTHING to promote or excelerate non-fossil fuel sources. Sure we got the "energy star" ratings on appliances, but even that is full of fraud. We cannot suddenly switch off our dependence on oil...had it started 30 years ago we would be much closer, but it didn't because our government ignored it. Like all politicians, the Celebudent we have now likes to talk a big talk, increase taxes on already burdened people, and try and do everything RIGHT NOW. Small steps people...do away with the EPA and give private industry all that moola to develop some VIABLE and AFFORDABLE alternatives. Good luck getting H-Wood involved Ian...you are fighting an uphill battle.
ReplyDeleteRichard Nixon, a Republican, signed the EPA into law. Along with the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Marine Mammals Protection Act. For all the bad things Nixon was guilty of, he was are most environmental aware President in decades.
ReplyDeleteAnd Ian - you rock! I've loved you for you acting; now I love you for your stand on this terrible environmental event.
HOLLYWOOD LIKES TO GIVE AID TO "OTHER" COUNTRIES, SEEMS MORE EXOTIC TO THE CELEB SET. JUST WAIT UNTIL AN OFF SHORE WELL CRACKS AND BLACKENS THE SHORES OF MALIBU, THEN WE WILL HEAR FROM OUR CRAZY WAY OVERPAID "STARS".
ReplyDeleteI've wondered the same thing myself, Ian. They put on benefits for every place in the world but here.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why it's always the entertainment people who have to give their time and money to raise money for these disasters. They are always the fund raisers. How about our polititians pulling some of their own personal money out of their pockets. Not the peoples money, polititians personal cash.
ReplyDeleteLet's see them pay for fund raisers, and give their own time and challenge their contemporaries to give their time and money. They get good publicity, the entertainment people get a break, and funds go to the disaster. Seems like a win win.
Write the white house, all the congressmen, senetors, etc. Let your voice be heard.
This proves that the moonbats didn't go to LA to help the people deal with Katrina. They went to attack Bush. Hollywood is full of desolute miserable misfits.
ReplyDeleteThe only practical reliable alternative is nuclear, and the moonbats won't allow it. Hydro can work in certain areas, but that too is hampered by environmentalists. Remember the Tocks Island Dam project? It would have helped provide energy to the NY area but the environazis but the kebosh on it because they thought it might interfere with the mating habits of the snail darter.
ReplyDeletewhy would anyone expect anything more from hollywood????? They are the whole reason the state of CA is in so much debt! They DONT PAY THEIR TAXES! Example.....Pam Anderson is the latest celeb who owes the the state more than a half million dollars, and the list goes on, and on! Screw hollywood, the only time they want to donate anything is if it benefits their write-offs on their taxes! Other than that, you wont see a dime!
ReplyDeleteProbably because BP should pay every last penny they have to clean up and support all those families who will lose everything. I will donate anyway. Hollywood or not.
ReplyDeleteGreat question indeed!! Where are all the Hollylibbers that think this poor planet is doomed by mankind at??? All those that Pledged to "The One" to make this planet GREENER???
ReplyDeleteThe only person I have seen really put ANY skin in this game is Kevin Cosner. He has put his money into a technology to help in recovery... James Cameron just spend billions on a movie...
Well concepts may be nice... but that doesn't get the job done, eh?
Has anyone ever heard anything about Haiti's neighbor. Dominican Republic? What. if anything. have they done to help their neighbor? Forget Hollywood. That place is full of creeps.
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