Director Kenneth Lonergan is defending Mark Ruffalo after the actor was accused of being antisemitic. “Mark Ruffalo has been talking about Israel since long before the Gaza war,” Lonergan, 63, wrote in a letter to The Hollywood Reporter published on Monday, August 31. “Apart from some routine social media ping-ponging, nobody serious I know of had accused him of antisemitism. Now Paramount has done just that, in the face of his sustained attacks on David Ellison and the upcoming Paramount merger.” On Friday, August 21, Ruffalo, 58, took to Instagram to criticize the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger while tying...