Cannes: Selena Gomez believes that social media has been terrible for her generation.
The 26-year-old actress was speaking at the Cannes Film Festival where she is promoting Jim Jarmusch's new movie 'The Dead Don't Die'.
"I understand that it's amazing to use your platform but it does scare me when you see how exposed these young girls and young boys are and they're not really aware of the news or anything going on. It's a very, it's just, I don't want to say selfish cause that feels rude but I think it's dangerous for sure. I don't think people are getting the right information sometimes."
The darkly comic movie sees the dead returning to life due to environment imbalance caused by polar fracking and veteran director Jarmusch was quick to point out that he doesn't think of climate change as an entirely political issue.
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"It gets me a little annoyed when even in response to our film some people say that because our film does make reference to the humans interfering and the sixth mass extinction that we're in now, defining this as a political issue is very confusing and perplexing to me."
"Politics doesn't seem to save anything. Politics is a kind of distraction. And now the politics is controlled on the planet by, it's corporate politics, so this for me is the problem."
Other stars appearing at the press conference were Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Chloe Sevigny.
Murray joked that the Cannes festival can be as scary as a zombie-infected area and said his choice of roles reflect his personal concerns about the state of the world.
"I'm a better person when I'm working on a film. The two are close for me. The state of my work in a film is pretty much the high point of the week, of the month, of the year of my state in life and my concern for the planet is mirrored in, is explained and demonstrated in my concern for our film and the people that I work with on a film."
Elsewhere, Swinton answered a question about the lack of female directors in the festival by saying the films are there, but they're not very visible because the industry and the public choose to focus on male filmmakers instead.
"Women have been making films for 11 decades now. There are countless films by women out there and the question is why do we not necessarily know about them? You have a great master like Kira Muratova who died recently. Her obituary was that size in most national newspapers whereas we know the great male masters that we know and appreciate when they pass on we have whole issues dedicated to them."
'The Dead Don't Die', which also stars Adam Driver, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Iggy Pop, Rosie Perez, RZA and more, is showing in competition at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
With inputs form APTN
