David Arquette: SOLD
Christopher Buck: It’s truly amazing, when you look at the numbers of how many people are trafficked or held in slavery around the world, especially when you’re thinking–and the many facets of it. And you’re thinking, in today’s day and age, how is this even possible? But, it truly is one of the uglier facets of humanity.
David Arquette: It sure is, and it’s really insane how it’s possible. I had a friend, who’s like a regular person that lives in Los Angeles, that’s a grown person she grew, that somehow got involved with these wrong people that kind of–they started trying to pimp her out, and she didn’t know what to do. And it’s this bullying mentality. It’s this sort of way of, like, you know–just, you know, intimidating someone to a point of, like, fear. And then they start to get wrapped up in this world that they’d never thought they could be a part of. And luckily she got away. But, it really was like this moment of, like, you know, just feeling hopeless and fearing for your life and doing things out of fear but also for self-preservation. But, you know, it happens all the time, and it’s going on, you know, throughout the world. And people who are, these evil people, they know how to spot a victim and someone they can take advantage of. And they have this set of rules in how to intimidate people. O one thing I learned about intimidation is the first thing you say to them is, “Are you trying to intimidate me?” And that question alone defuses intimidation. It’s a really great tactic in just, like, confronting someone who’s being a bully.
Christopher Buck: That’s a very good point. Now, you’ve been involved in many other projects that have helped raise awareness and done good work. Would you like to share any of those projects?
David Arquette: Well, there was a film called The Grey Zone that was really it was about the Holocaust, but it showed the sort of conflict that, some of the soldiers that were Jewish that sort of helped people into the gas chamber, their sort of inner conflict, which was a crucial film that I was a part of. Another one would be Dream with the Fishes, which deals with depression, suicide, and sort of, you know, dealing with an incurable disease. So, those are two of them. I also did a film called Johns that dealt with, you know, male prostitution and just the street life of kids that are trying to survive out there.
