James Cameron Rips Trump’s America, Fox News: ‘I Kinda Don’t Give a S— Anymore’
TCA 2018: “Avatar” director sees an awful lot of “1984” and “Fahrenheit 451” in this “fake news” era
Tony Maglio | January 13, 2018 @ 5:28 PM
Last Updated: January 22, 2018 @ 11:01 AM
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“Terminator” director James Cameron saw this future coming — that doesn’t mean he likes it.
The man behind “Titanic” and “Avatar” trashed Trump’s America and the Tweeter-in-Chief’s favorite cable news channel Saturday at the Television Critics Association press tour. Citing old sci-fi works like George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451,” Cameron warned we didn’t need an “overt totalitarian state” to reach some of the darker plot points from those mid-1900’s novels.
“If you look at where we are, people are talking about a post-truth age… and fake news and all that stuff — these stories are as timely as they ever were,” he told a room full of reporters. “It’s happening right now.”
“There’s 20 or 30 percent of the country that actually believes what they see on Fox News,” he added. “I certainly hope I’m not offending anybody, but I kinda don’t give a s— anymore.”
Also during the afternoon panel, Cameron thoughtfully responded to actress Eliza Dushku’s accusation of sexual assault on the set of his 1994 movie “True Lies.” Read what Cameron said about that here.
“AMC Visionaries: James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction” premieres Monday, April 30 at 10 p.m. on AMC.
Golden Globes: Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Ceremony (Photos)
Just as not every actor, TV series and movie could take home a trophy from Sunday night's Golden Globes awards, not every moment at this year's ceremony could be a winner.
With the 75th Golden Globes ceremony behind us, TheWrap presents the stunners and the clunkers -- and some truly stunning clunkers -- from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual trophy-dispensing event.
BEST:Seth Meyers' opening monologue. While Meyers was expected to address the sexual-misconduct scandal and subsequent backlash during the opener to this year's ceremony, he was especially cutting with his zingers, welcoming the audience with, "Good evening, ladies and remaining gentlemen" and declaring, "Time to address the elephant not in the room: Harvey Weinstein isn’t in the room … he’ll be back in 20 years when he’s the first person booed in the in memoriam.”
WORST: Winona Ryder's head-scratching L'Oreal commercial. While not officially part of the ceremony, Ryder's ad -- which started out as empowering message before morphing into a commercial about how anything can be salvaged, including bad hair -- worked many viewers into a lather, judging by the reaction on social media.
BEST: Carol Burnett's turn as a presenter. Appearing onstage to a standing ovation with Jennifer Aniston, comedy legend Burnett proved that she still has her chops, telling Aniston that she's "happy that you're coming back to television, because 'Will and Grace' was one of my favorite shows" and chiding Aniston as "kinky" for wanting to pull Burnett's ear -- a signature move of Burnett's on her classic sketch-comedy show.
WORST: Kelly Clarkson and Keith Urban dueting the line, "And the Golden Globe goes to ..." while presenting for Best Original Song struck a bum note for some viewers, not least of all in TheWrap newsroom.
BEST: James Franco inviting "The Room" filmmaker Tommy Wiseau onstage while accepting his award for "The Disaster Artist," which is based on Wiseau's cult curiosity.
WORST: Franco not letting Wiseau speak onstage, even though Wiseau made a grab for Franco's microphone and everything.
BEST: The marathon tribute to Oprah Winfrey, who received the Cecil B. DeMille Award -- at least if you needed a bathroom break halfway through the show and haven't been particularly regular lately.
BEST: While also lengthy, Winfrey's acceptance speech put the "O" in "standing O."
WORST: Alexander Skarsgard, who won Best Supporting Actor -- TV Award, and neglected to address the abuse epidemic in Hollywood during his acceptance speech, despite playing an abuser on "Big Little Lies."
BEST: Natalie Portman's sassy call-out of gender inequality in the entertainment industry. Presenting for Best Director along with Ron Howard, Portman announced, "And here are the all-male nominees." (Runner-up: The award's winner, Guillermo del Toro, who said that he was "hoping to wipe my nose with this" after pulling out his acceptance speech, and refused to be played off, saying, "Lower the music ... it's taken me 25 years, give me a minute.")
BEST: Frances McDormand slipping one past the censors with her description of her "shite" baseball-throwing skills, then seeming to throw them into a bout of unnecessary button-hitting with the phrases "tectonic shift" and "Fox Searchlight."
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From Winona Ryder’s WTF L’Oreal commercial to three tons of Oprah worship and Frances McDormand confusing the censors, the stunners and the clunkers of this year’s ceremony
Just as not every actor, TV series and movie could take home a trophy from Sunday night's Golden Globes awards, not every moment at this year's ceremony could be a winner.
With the 75th Golden Globes ceremony behind us, TheWrap presents the stunners and the clunkers -- and some truly stunning clunkers -- from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual trophy-dispensing event.
