The film director Wes Anderson (56) does not take the announcement of US President Donald Trump, to prove films produced abroad with high tariffs, according to his own statements. “My hope is that Trump simply forgets things quickly and concentrates on other things. It wouldn’t be the first time,” says Anderson (“Grand Budapest Hotel”) in a “Tagesspiegel” interview.
“I think Trump is a film fan, and I can’t imagine that he really only wants to see films that were made in America,” says the 56-year-old. “He can’t want James Bond to only be in America in the future.” Trump will certainly make exceptions.
“You just can’t reinforce Trump”
“The truth is: nobody has the slightest idea how this customs idea will go on. A 100 percent customs is absurd,” says Anderson (“The Royal Tenenbaums”, “The French Dispatch”). Therefore, he pleads to wait and not to panic. “Lives your life, make your films.” Of course, you will be queasy if you like to turn abroad. “But I think the best strategy is to keep a cool head and only move when you are really confronted with the problem. Until then, of course, the following applies: Trump should not be reinforced.”
AI and President Trump have something in common for Anderson
Also artificial intelligence is not worried about the film industry, says the director, born in Texas in 1969 in Texas in the “Tagesspiegel”. “With AI it is like Trump: I don’t get afraid until something really happens. And that shouldn’t sound trivializing now. But I just can’t help it with this customs topic because it is so absurd.” With goods you can still say: “You have to pay, or we don’t let anything go into the country”. However, films traveled in other ways.
Wes Anderson, with its unmistakable style of strong colors and stage design -like sets, is one of the most famous filmmakers in the present.
His twelfth feature film “The Phoenician Master Cancer” (May 29 May) recently had a premiere at the Cannes Festival. He was largely shot in the Babelsberg film studios in Potsdam. Anderson emphasizes that he likes to turn in Germany because he has had “many good experiences” here, know many people and Babelsberg is such a beautiful old studio site with plenty of space.
