Celebrities react to Trump's 'un-American' immigration ban with outrage
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus speaking at the SAG Awards.
As protests were held at airports and major US landmarks all over the country, Hollywood was throwing two of its biggest awards events of the year: the Sundance Film Festival awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Many celebrities used those platforms and the protests to voice their opposition to Trump's ban.
The immigration ban - which is being challenged as unconstitutional and called racist and a "Muslim ban" by critics - temporarily blocks travelers from entering the US from seven predominately Muslim countries and bans all refugees from entering for the next 120 days.
The impact on Hollywood was immediately felt when Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film "The Salesman" is nominated for a best foreign film Oscar, said the ban would stop him from being able to attend the awards ceremony on February 26.
While some entertainment stars certainly support Trump and his executive order, the vocal majority has made its objections to his presidency clear.
Over the weekend, Seth Rogen, Taraji P. Henson, Ashton Kutcher, and Sarah Paulson, among many other stars, expressed their disapproval of the immigration ban.
Here's what they had to say:
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