Kingsley to appear in Pakistan earthquake documentary
The documentary by director
Kingsley, who spent five days in the Pakistan-controlled portion of Kashmir, told reporters in Islamabad on Wednesday that he would like to eliminate the phrase, “We must respect our differences,” from the “lazy vocabulary of political rhetoric.”
“We must embrace our similarities. We are far more similar as human beings than we are different,” the 62-year-old British actor said.
“When you see a woman crying because she can’t find her child under 4 million tons of rubble, that’s humanity,” he said, referring to the total mass of rubble estimated to have been created by the quake.
“We all have moms, dads, brothers, sisters and grandparents who we’d miss terribly if they disappeared in 26 seconds,” he added, referring to the duration of the magnitude-7.6 disaster.
Kingsley, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002, is popular in South Asia for his Oscar-winning performance as the Indian resistance leader Mahatma Gandhi in
One reporter in the predominantly Pakistani media crowd asked Kingsley if he had been in any movies since Gandhi.
Kingsley good-naturedly replied that he has made 40 films and has been nominated for four Oscars since Gandhi.
“But at least you saw one of my films, so I’m delighted about that,” he added.
Source: USA Today
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