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In a fictional polarized universe, almost everyone is the bad guy, even if they dont realize it.
you could only make the movie that you want to make.
You cant plan for people to assume the wrong thing about it.
You wouldnt get anything done.
So, no is the answer.
I didnt think that it was going to do this.
This is amazing![Laughs.]
So, I was a little behind the curve on kind of understanding when we had crossed some threshold.
I hesitate to say the wordamusingbecause it wasnt very fun.
No one had seen it.
Were you frustrated that you couldnt really speak up about it?
Thats the point of making a movie.
That was happeningtothe movie and it was a lineinsideof the movie.
How were you hoping people would engage with this movie?I made the movie just to be fun.
I actually felt like this is a balance of that.
It made the movie into, like, steamed cauliflower something that it wasnt.
The movie was cake!
I thought that well, I was seeking to equal-opportunity offend.
Thats something I wanted to ask you about specifically because there are these cauliflower aspects toThe Hunt.
I remember conversations between me and Nick and Damon kind of about exactly what you just said.
And the question becomes,Do you still want to tell that story?
No, I agree with that.
The Huntwas not your first experience with having a movie greeted by controversy.
With this film, no one had seen the movie.
No one had even talked about the movie.
If youre mad, let me answer your questions.
And people wanted to hear that, you know?
In a way it actually felt kind of antithetical to what I was trying to say with the movie.
Im not 100 percent sure what that will be, but I am willing to engage in it.
I was not willing to engage with it when nobody had seen it.
I think the best thing to do if youre going to talk about a movie is watch it first.
