Rupert Everett hates ‘Hacks’ but can’t stop watching the show

I don’t know what Deborah Vance would say about it.

The actor and the juror of the Taormina Film Festival, Rupert Everett, shared his reflections on the film and television industry at the annual film festival in Italy, where he also talked about his romantic relationship with the HBO comedy acclaimed Hacks.

“I like to look at things that I really don’t like,” said the British actor at the festival, in maturity. “For example, I watched this series called Hacks Recently, and I really hate each episode. Each episode I hate more than the last, but I can’t stop watching. “”

He added: “So I like it.”

By Paul W. Downs, Lucia Anielo and Jen Stattsky, the Emmy Winning Hacks Focusing on the dark mentoring between the legend of comics and the end of evening host Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and the young actress Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder).

Elsewhere in Taormina, Everett deplored the “cinematographic wokery” in what he called a climate of “puritan” entertainment.

“I think that, for me, it is not a very good time because I preferred the world of entertainment when it was a little less puritanized,” he told him the state of the industry. “I think that now we have entered a world where everyone is so easily offended by everything that anyone does the result is that everything is completely predictable, and consequently really boring.”

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The actor said there were “good” shows there “, but I don’t think, for me, there is personality behind a lot. There is just this horrible political movement so as to cinematographic wokery, which I really don’t like. I think it is as bad as the 4th century Christians in the Roman Empire; they destroy everything.”

Everett is known for his roles Another country, the marriage of my best friend, the importance of being serious, the happy princeAnd The next best thing.

His assertion that cinema has become “too awake” was regurgited by filmmakers and actors very recently, in particular, including Joker Director Todd Phillips, who said he had gone from the kind of comedy to a darker material because “the awakened culture” made more difficult to work on comedies. Quentin Tarantino also deplored the “politically correct” in the cinema trade.