Norwegian Actress Liv Ullmann Shares Thoughts on Donald Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize Gift at European Film Awards
Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann has expressed doubt that U.S. President Donald Trump will retain the Nobel Peace Prize recently awarded to him by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Ullmann shared her thoughts during the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday, where she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Juliette Binoche.
“I’m so proud that I was part of entertainment, of films, specifically now today, when the world is strange and scary and difficult to solve… what is happening now is out of understanding, really,” she said.
Reflecting on the significance of the Nobel Prize, Ullmann said, “I’m Norwegian; we give a Nobel Prize to somebody who deserved it, and suddenly that Nobel Prize is going to somebody else. It’s so strange, so strange, and that’s why I’m happy specifically now that we have laws that say that if you misuse the Nobel Prize, we take it away from you. Somebody in power in the United States may be disappointed. He will lose it… I am happy.”
Ullmann, celebrated as one of Europe’s foremost actresses, gained international acclaim through her roles in Ingmar Bergman’s pivotal films, including Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes From A Marriage (1974), and Autumn Sonata (1978).
Her remarks follow Machado’s presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump during a recent meeting at the White House.
The Nobel Peace Center responded to the award by emphasizing that the prize “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred.”
