Brothers and Sisters Stars Choose Peace
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Calista Flockhart, one of the actors on the successful ABC series, Brothers & Sisters, hosted the Humanitarian Awards in Los Angeles for Peace Over Violence, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and educating people about how to prevent all types of violence, including domestic and sexual. Calista's co-stars, Dave Annable, Emily VanCamp and Matthew Rhys come out in support of the cause and tell Young Hollywood about what is going on with their characters on the show and how they feel Brothers & Sisters handles the topic of violence, both at home and abroad. Calista also tells Young Hollywood about how an organization like Peace Over Violence empowers people to get involved and prevent violence in and out of the home.
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Welcome to Younghollywood. com. Tonight, we're at the Peace Over Violence Humanitarian Awards, catching up with host Calista Flockhart and the stars of Brothers and Sisters.
Calista, what advice would you give to Young Hollywood viewers to get involved with this cause and help prevent violence both in and outside of the home?
You can do something as simple as spreading the word. A lot of it is about education. We have this new program called Be Strong, which is all about empowering young girls.
Well, what we're we're trying to do here is just uh educate and promote awareness. I I mean that's what it is. It's sort of word of mouth to uh to help prevent this.
Also in the show, you've been dealing with the controversial topic also of war violence. What has been the viewer response to that?
Uh you know, we've we've gotten a lot of positive feedback from vets and and families of vets and you know, it's obviously something we're dealing with right now. Often their their story is forgotten and uh you know, I think uh that we're putting it into sort of prime time television and you know, it's uh we're doing what we can. It touches a lot of people's hearts in a lot of ways. Domestic violence and sexual abuse is completely unacceptable.
Now, let's talk a little bit about the show.
Well, I think we have such brilliant writers and they approach it in such a non-biased way. You're really seeing both sides of everything and exploring both sides of of every issue that we we talk about. The the best thing to do is to contact Piece of violence. They web site is so diverse in what it can deal with in uh every sort of aspect.
Do you feel responsibility to the gay community in terms of, you know, portraying that character and how has the response been?
I think there's an element of responsibility and that you want to avoid cliché more than anything else and I think we have done.
Hello, I'm Matthew and you're watching Young Hollywood.
Hey, I'm Dave Annable and uh you're watching Young Hollywood. It's all I got.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Calista Flockhart
Hosted the Humanitarian Awards, discussed Peace Over Violence and the show
- Dave Annable
Co-star on "Brothers & Sisters", supported the cause
- Emily VanCamp
Co-star on "Brothers & Sisters", supported the cause
- Matthew Rhys
Co-star on "Brothers & Sisters", discussed the show and supported the cause
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