Best known as an actor in films such as The Princess Bride and My Dinner With Andre, Wallace Shawn is also a playwright and a political Marxist, having written a number of socialist essays and the left-wing play The Fever, which was later adapted into a film. Shawn is also a longtime supporter of the Palestinian people and an anti-Zionist Jew, sitting on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace. In 2023 as Israel carried out a genocidal campaign in Gaza, Shawn was one of many who spoke at a protest in front of the White House organized by JVP and IfNotNow, calling on President Joe Biden to demand a ceasefire.
"A naked woman leans over a fence. A man buys a magazine and stares at her picture. The destinies of these two are linked. The man has paid the woman to take off her clothes, to lean over the fence. The photograph contains its history—the moment the woman unbuttoned her shirt, how she felt, what the photographer said. The price of the magazine is a code that describes the relationships between all these people—the woman, the man, the publisher, the photographer—who commanded, who obeyed. The cup of coffee contains the history of the peasants who picked the beans, how some of them fainted in the heat of the sun, some were beaten, some were kicked."
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LOML WHO IS ALSO MY OP!!! 😍🫶🏻🎂🎉
OFC SHAWN’S BDAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF LEO SEASON DUH
-so here’s some of my favs from my ‘shawnathan’ pinterest board:
may we never meet bc it’s on sight pookie 💕
(jk I love him sm he actually means the world to me, he's the whole reason I love wrestling in the first place and always come back to it no matter how long its been. ❤️)