Xavi Gordo for Variety As Javier Bardem was preparing to present at this year’s Oscars, one very famous incident loomed large in his mind. “Vanessa Redgrave, back in the ’70s,” he recalls recently. When the British actress won a supporting actress Oscar for “Julia” in 1978, she referred to critics of her producing a documentary about Palestine as “Zionist hoodlums.” Watching the clip now, the scattered boos from the crowd are striking. Later in the ceremony, the screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, there as a presenter, condemned Redgrave from the stage. Bardem was prepared for similar opprobrium. And he didn’t mind. “I was ready,” he says, miming a lusty sort of disapproval, “for the ‘Boo!’”
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