PS: It would’ve been better had Couric framed the question differently. She could’ve said, “People from most fields comment on political issues and nobody questions them for their activism. But when people that are highly successful in the arts or in sports or any field that gets lots of media attention come forward…

Marlon Brando said e x a c t l y the same thing (in as many words) as Denzel Washington when pressed on his own passionate activism. Brando was a civil rights and indigenous rights activist who famously sent Sacheen Littlefeather, an indigenous rights activist with Native ancestry, to decline his Best Actor Oscar for…