Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann has suggested U.S. President Donald Trump is unlikely to remain in possession of the Nobel Peace Prize gifted to him this past week by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.
The actress, director and screenwriter and late Ingmar Bergman muse voiced her surprise at the move at the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday, after being presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by 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.
“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.”
Hailed as one of Europe’s greatest living actresses, Ullmann first achieved international fame for appearances in Bergman’s films including Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes From A Marriage (1974), and Autumn Sonata (1978).
Ullmann’s comments came just days after Machado presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize during a meeting with the U.S. president at the White House.
The Nobel Peace Center has made it clear it is not happy with the move saying in statement that the prize “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred”.
