The Indian origin Hollywood actor Dev Patel who has been recently nominated for the Oscars for “Lion” is worried about the political climate in America.
The “Slumdog Millionaire” star has opened his heart out and spoke about US President Donald Trump's travel ban. He said that flying into the US was like entering 'a nightmare'.
In an interview with the Press Association Dev said, “I've decided not to be quiet about how I'm feeling. I live here now. I have a home here. When I arrived back from India I felt like I was entering into a nightmare."
"I'm really grateful to the people out there marching and standing outside airports and all the protesters”, he added.
Dev, who got his first break in UK TV series Skins, said the political climate had changed since his hit film Slumdog Millionaire, and he wanted to speak out about the changes.
"When Slumdog first premiered it was the time people were passing around badges that read Hope, and (Barack) Obama was about to step up and there was a beautiful loving atmosphere in the air, and the film spoke to that," he said in the interview.
"Now we are in a very different stage, we socially, politically, feel more tender. People are worried. As an actor I am having conversations about how relevant it is to promote a film when the fabric of society is fraying."
"But I snuck into the end of a screening to watch the last seven minutes and was quite moved by the message it is putting out of unification and love that transcends continents. It makes me happy."
In “Lion”, the Oscar nominated actor plays a young man who was separated from his family as a child in India and was adopted by a family in Australia and uses Google Earth to find his way home.
