索菲亚·布什不属于那些打算不再在政治领域发声的演艺人士。“我能怎么做？让自己沉默？放弃我最重要的权利之一，只为了让我不认识的人觉得我更讨喜或更愿意雇用我？那不是我感兴趣的事，”布什近日接受ITK采访时说。当时她被问及，2008年为时任民主党总统候选人、参议员巴拉克·奥巴马（伊利诺伊州）助选时，决定是否涉足政治对她而言是否是一个艰难的选择。
Don't count Sophia Bush among the performers who plan on stepping back from making their voices heard in the political world. "What would I do? Silence myself? Take away one of my most important rights to be more palatable or more hirable to people I don't know? That's not something that I'm interested in," Bush said in a recent interview with ITK, when asked if it was a tough choice to decide whether to get involved in politics back in 2008 when she campaigned for then-Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).
“如果说有什么影响，我认为正是因为我能够拥有这些经历、能够走上竞选之路、能够在所有邻居身上看到自己——无论他们身处得克萨斯州的小镇、佛蒙特州北部，还是洛杉矶市中心——这才让我成为更好的倡导者，也让我成为更好的演员，”这位44岁的《进行中的工作》播客主持人说。“我能以非常真实的方式与人建立联系，并且觉得自己能够讲述他们的故事，无论他们来自哪里。而我做到这一点的唯一方式，就是真正出现在某个地方为他们发声，然后倾听他们，倾听他们的故事，倾听他们的经历，理解他们的痛点，理解他们从这个国家需要什么、却没有得到、而他们显然理应得到的东西，”她说。
"If anything, I think that my ability to have had these experiences, to be out on the campaign trail, to see myself in all of my neighbors — whether they're in small town Texas or northern Vermont or the center of Los Angeles — is something that makes me a better advocate, but it also makes me a better actor," the 44-year-old "Work in Progress" podcast host said. "I connect with people in a very real way and feel like I can tell their stories no matter where they're from. And the only way I can do that is actually by showing up somewhere to advocate and then listening to them, listening to their stories, listening to their experiences, understanding what their pain points are, what they need from this country that they're not getting and that they clearly deserve," she said.
这位曾主演《篮球兄弟》和《芝加哥警署》的明星在一场内容广泛的对话中，围绕她的新书《而我将告诉你我的故事》，畅谈了身处娱乐界和政治聚光灯下的生活。“你有一些终于准备好讲述的故事，而对我来说，在多年为他人、为社区发声之后，把这种耐心的关注转向内心，真正决定分享一些关于我个人生活的事情，感觉非常特别，”布什谈到自己首次涉足文学创作时说。
The former "One Tree Hill" and "Chicago P.D." star opened up about life in both the entertainment and political spotlight in a wide-ranging conversation about her new book, "And I Will Tell You Mine." "You have stories you're finally ready to tell, and I think for me, after years of advocating for other people and for community, it felt really special to turn that patient attention inward and actually decide to share some things about my own personal individual life," Bush said of her first foray into literature.
这本书详述了她在洛杉矶的成长经历，以及她在南加州大学求学期间如何勉强爱上了表演，从新闻学院转入戏剧系。正如表演一样，她在书中写道，行动主义“真正感觉像是一种召唤”。《我将告诉你我的故事》一书中的一章《最后的舞会》描写了布什在奥巴马第二任期的2017年，为赶上白宫最后一场星光熠熠的告别派对而疯狂奔波的经历。
The book details her upbringing in Los Angeles and how she begrudgingly fell in love with acting while a student at the University of Southern California, switching from its journalism school to its theater program. Much like acting, she writes in the book, activism "truly felt like a calling." One chapter in "And I Will Tell You Mine," titled "The Last Dance Party," describes Bush's mad dash to get to a final, star-studded bash during President Obama's second term in the White House in 2017.
布什说，她错过了一封关于在宾夕法尼亚大道1600号举行“某种最后的欢呼”的邮件，随后接到奥巴马政府一位朋友的电话，得知当晚将举行告别宴会。“我最终改签了航班赶到华盛顿，穿着运动裤落地，不得不想办法临时凑出一套适合白宫的着装，”布什回忆道。这位艺人疯狂地冲进一家萨克斯第五大道精品百货店奥特莱斯：“他们那儿总会有东西，而且会打折。双赢，”她写道。
Bush said she had missed an email about a "sort of last hurrah" at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, before receiving a call from one of her friends in the Obama administration about the farewell fête that night. "I wound up rerouting my flight and getting to D.C. and landing in sweatpants and having to figure out how to scramble a White House appropriate outfit," Bush recalled. The entertainer made a frantic stop at a Saks Off 5th outlet store: "They're have something, and it would be on sale. Win-win," she wrote.
虽然这一章聚焦于布什所谓的“最美好、最难忘的夜晚之一”，但也对特朗普总统采取了批评基调。“尽管推出了迄今为止最合格的总统人选，厌女症在2016年底还是占了上风，”布什谈到特朗普在白宫竞选中击败希拉里·克林顿时说道。在不点名总统的情况下，布什说特朗普“靠吹嘘和极其粗俗的倾向获胜”。“我认为，一个选择体现并助长人性最恶劣倾向的人，不配让人提及其名字，”布什说。
While the chapter focuses on what Bush called "one of the most beautiful, memorable evenings," it also strikes a critical tone about President Trump. "Despite running the most qualified person for president to date, misogyny had prevailed at the end of 2016," Bush said of Trump's win in the White House race against Hillary Clinton. Without mentioning the president by name, Bush said Trump had "won on bluster and wildly crass tendencies." "I think someone who chooses to exemplify and bolster the very worst of human tendency doesn't really deserve to have their name spoken," Bush said.
“这和我认为念出在校园枪击案中遇难学童的名字、而不提校园枪手的名字极其重要是同一个道理。当你在给一个社区制造恐怖时，我认为你不配成为明星，”她说。
"It's the same reason that I think it's incredibly important to speak the names of school children that are lost in school shootings, and not the name of the school shooter. When you are wreaking terror on a community, I don't think you deserve to be a star," she said.
布什对 ITK 表示：“特朗普在过去 10 年里让女性的处境变得糟糕得多。我知道我们已经忍无可忍，也知道很多男性同样忍无可忍。是时候夺回国家，选出那些或许不会在推文里攻击他人，却能切实把事办成的领导人了。”
Saying Trump "has made things so much worse for women in the last 10 years," Bush told ITK, "I know we're fed up, and I know plenty of men are fed up, too. And it's about time that we take the nation back and choose to elect leaders that might not own people in a tweet but get the job done."
“由于那个人的领导，我们的国家、经济和文化正在发生的一切绝对令人憎恶，所以不，我对提他的名字没有丝毫兴趣。但我将成为那些持续揭露他恶劣行径的声音之一，直到他光荣地离任，因为我热爱我的国家。”
"It's absolutely abhorrent what's happening in our country, in our economy, and in our culture right now because of that man's leadership, so no, I'm not particularly interested in saying his name. But I'll be one of the voices that continues to call out his bad actions until he's out of office proudly, because I love my country."
被问及 2028 年白宫竞选时，布什表示她全神贯注于中期选举，并对民主党候选人在全国的前景表示乐观。“我认为中期选举真的是我们倾尽全力、希望能夺回一些我们伟大的共和国本应运作并向世界彰显的民主的机会。”
Asked about the 2028 White House race, Bush said she's laser focused on the midterm elections, expressing optimism about Democratic candidates' chances across the country. "I think the midterms are really an opportunity for us to leave it all on the field and hopefully claw back some of the democracy that our great republic is meant to operate with and signify in the world."
布什说：“我认为如果仅看数字、美国民意以及冲击如此多民众的现实，我们看到的不应只是蓝色浪潮——而应是蓝色山崩地裂般的大胜。”
"I think if we're just going on the numbers, on American sentiment and on the reality that's hit so many people, we should see greater than a blue wave — we should see a blue landslide," Bush said.
虽然一些表演者在副总统哈里斯 2024 年总统大选失利后，开始质疑自己是否还要继续就政治发声——“饥饿游戏”演员珍妮弗·劳伦斯在接受《纽约时报》采访时曾公开思考，她发表观点是否在“给撕裂国家的大火添柴”——但布什表示，她无意噤声。
While some performers have questioned whether they want to continue speaking out about politics — following former Vice President Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential election loss, "Hunger Games" actor Jennifer Lawrence wondered aloud in an interview with The New York Times whether she was adding "fuel to a fire that's ripping the country apart" by sharing her opinion — Bush indicated that she has no intention of silencing herself.
“告诉任何公民只管做好本职工作、别管爱国的事，我认为这太荒谬了，”她说。
"I think it's wild to tell any citizen that they should just stick to their job rather than love their country," she said.
“生活在这个国家的每一个人，都和其他人一样，拥有同等的权利为这个国家挺身而出，”布什说，并补充道，她不想拿自己与业内其他人作比较，也不想评判他们做出的个人选择，以及她的同行们“对这些事情非常正当的感受”。
"Every single person who lives in this country has as much a right to stand up for it as anyone else," Bush said, adding that she didn't want to compare herself to or judge other people in the industry for their personal choices and her peers' "very valid feelings around those things."
“对我来说，我不认为名人行动主义有什么意义。我甚至不喜欢‘名人’这个词，”布什继续说道。“但我确实认为，当你认识的某个人足够在乎某件事，愿意跟你谈一谈，这能推动事态发展。而我关心这些事。”
"For me, I don't think celebrity activism matters. I don't even like the word celebrity," Bush continued. "But what I do think is that when someone you know cares enough about something to have a conversation with you, it can move the needle.
“我出来发声倡导，并不是因为这可能对我的工作有好处，”布什说。“如果有什么不同的话，做一个没人能给贴上观点标签的‘安静谜团’，可能反而更利于我的演员事业——但这只是不是我选择的生活方式。”
And I care about this stuff." "I don't show up to advocate because it might be good for my job," Bush said. "If anything, being a quiet mystery who nobody can identify with an opinion might be better for my job as an actor — but it's just not the way I choose to live life."
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