Ashton Kutcher Gives Emotional Testimony At Hearing To End Modern Slavery – WBNews

Ashton Kutcher testified at a hearing at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday in the hopes of ending modern slavery and human trafficking.At the start of the hearing, Senator John McCain made a remark on Kutcher’s appearance, telling the actor that he looked better “in the movies.” Kutcher responded to the comment by blowing McCain a kiss. .@SenJohnMcCain: “Ashton, you were better looking in the movies.” pic.twitter.com/Mn1iZM1kMa— CSPAN (@cspan) February 15, 2017 After that comedic exchange ended, the actor, seated next to Human Rights First President and CEO Elisa Massimino, made a passionate speech. © Leigh Vogel via Getty Images He opened with the following: I’m here today to defend the right to pursue happiness. It’s a simple notion. It’s bestowed upon all of us by our Constitution. Every citizen in this country has the right to pursue it and I believe that is incumbent upon us as citizens of this nation, as Americans, to bestow that right upon others. Upon each other and upon the rest of the world. But the right to pursue happiness, for so many, is stripped away. It’s raped. It’s abused. It’s taken by force, fraud, or coercion. It is sold for the momentary happiness of another. Kutcher acknowledged that internet trolls frequently tell him to “stick to his day job,” so the actor defended his position by explaining what those “day jobs” are. Outside of fame, Kutcher is a chairman and co-founder of Thorn, a company that builds software to…more detail