Acclaimed auteur also spoke about the strike while at the Venice Film Festival to promote his Dahl adaptation The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
During the film’s Venice press conference, Anderson was asked by yours truly about his feelings toward the decision by U.K. publisher Penguinto hire “sensitivity readers” to remove colorful passages from Dahl’s deliciously dark canon, which often crossed lines of so-called “political correctness.”
“You know, I’m probably the worst person to ask about this because if you ask me, ‘Should Renoir be allowed to touch up one of his pictures and modify it?’ I would say, ‘No. It’s done. Somebody bought it. It’s in a museum.’ I don’t even want the artist to modify their work,” Anderson explained. “I understand the motivation for it, but I’m from the school where when the piece of work is done, and we participate in it — the audienceit — and so I think when it’s done, it’s done.
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