I see there are a couple of other recent stories about celebrities bemoaning current trends or tastes. Along with that Kevin Feig story posted last week:
Sean Penn on a recent Bill Maher podcast:
I was realizing the contradiction in what was happening outside with the protestors and a few inside, and when I came out, I think the first thing I said, which I think was a fair observation, ‘Were that film[ed] today, I couldn’t play that part,’ and the same people who two minutes before were applauding ‘Milk’ were thinking ‘f**k him’ about me too. Suddenly, we’re hardwired into acceptance.
If you look at the industry right now… there are movies that feel incestuous, they’re just masturbatory… It’s just Hollywood talking to themselves[…] And then there are movies where they’re saying: the audience is dumb so we’re going to take all the soul out and we’re just going to do it by numbers […] These are signs of complete dysfunction.”
I see there are a couple of other recent stories about celebrities bemoaning current trends or tastes. Along with that Kevin Feig story posted last week: Sean Penn on a recent Bill Maher podcast:
M. Night Shyamalan interviewed by ..."AFP news agency?"