The London Film Competition premiere of Pharrell Williams’s engrossing documentary Piece by Piece was disrupted by animal rights protesters on Sunday evening.
Earlier than the film started, protesters with People for the Moral Treatment of Animals (PETA) unfurled a banner internal the auditorium at London’s Royal Competition Corridor which learn, “Pharrell: Stop Supporting Killing Animals for Fashion.”
In step with Selection, one demonstrator told the Louis Vuitton menswear inventive director, “Shame on you, Pharrell. Animals are skinned alive and tortured.”
The Chuffed singer, who’s scuffling with laryngitis, replied, “God bless you. The change we want to see won’t happen overnight.”
In step with a representative for the British Film Institute (BFI), security guards asked the protesters to paddle away after which escorted them out of the corridor.
“We feel it was managed well and any attempt to remove them earlier would have exacerbated the problem,” the procure added.
This is no longer Williams’s first attain upon with a PETA campaigner on the Piece by Piece press tour. Right thru its premiere at the Toronto Global Film Competition in September, one rushed the stage and yelled, “Pharrell’s collection is made from their blood! Pharrell stop torturing animals!”
Addressing the allegations at the time, he insisted to the viewers that his team “are actually working on that”.
“Rome wasn’t made in a day. And sometimes, when you have plans to change things and situations, you have to get in a situation of power and of influence where you can change people’s minds and help progression,” he persisted.
Piece by Piece, which tells his life tale in the create of LEGO, served as the closing evening gala of the London Film Competition on Sunday.