At the Venice Film Festival, Susan Sarandon — an Oscar-winning actor with decades of celebrated work — stated plainly that her vocal support for Palestinian rights has continued to cost her film roles, even as American public opinion on the Gaza conflict has measurably shifted. Her words, spoken not in bitterness but in careful observation, place a quiet but pointed question before an industry that presents itself as progressive: does Hollywood's tolerance for dissent extend to this particular cause? The gap between what the culture is beginning to say and what the industry is willing to emplo