Terry Gilliam says Trump’s return allows people to laugh again without fear

The experienced filmmaker and “Monty Python” Alaun Terry Gilliam believes that the president is this president Donald TrumpThe re -election made it possible for people to laugh again.

In an interview with the Hollywood reporter published on Tuesday, the 84-year-old director spoke about his career, the condition of the comedy and the future of his latest film project in the middle of the changing cultural landscape. When asked whether he still had the feeling that humorless activists suffocated the comedy, Gilliam explained that Trump had it the environment shaken.

“I think Trump has changed things considerably. He turned the world upside down,” Gilliam said. “I don’t know if people will laugh more, but they are probably less scared.”

Gilliam accused activists with a “narrow, self -righteous point of view” that they have given the comedians afraid in recent years.

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“This was scared, and so many people were very shy about telling jokes and making fun of things, because when they tell a joke, these people say that they have someone down. No, they find humor in humanity!” he said.

Gilliam described how Trump’s return to the power had the unintentional consequence of having his upcoming derail comedy“The carnival at the end of the days”, a satire about Satan, which tries to prevent God from wiping mankind that woke up culture.

The film originally wore the subtitle: “Great fun for everyone who likes to be offended.”

“Well, he is f – in the latest film that I worked on. Because it was a satire over the past few years when things ran like this. He turned it upside down. So he killed my film,” said Gilliam.

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“So I approached it. I think Trump destroyed satire. I mean, how can you be satirical, what is going on in the way he does the world?” he said.

He joked that between 2020 and 2024 he included a disclaimer in the film, which brings him into the so -called “Trump Lost Years”.

The film’s script is now mocking self-righteous Woke activists, he has explained the deadline.

“And the other problem is that the script is in a way outdated because it was a satire of the world two years ago and Donald Trump came along and he was the carnival. He turned the world upside down – everything. We have to revise some of the story about history because parts of it were very specific. The socket Tuesday.

Gilliam complained to get the film going in an increasingly cautious entertainment industry. We lived in “a very nervous world”, he said. “They were not allowed to insult anyone, and all managers lived in fear, so I started looking elsewhere.”

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Despite his recent comments on Trump, Gilliam is not a fan of the President and calls him a “Conman” and “Idiot” in an interview with 2018 France press agency.

Gilliam has long spoken against political correctness and canceled the loss of culture.

In an interview in 2020 with The Independent, Gilliam said that he was everything for diversity, but it is fed up with “white men for everything that is wrong in the world”.

“It was so simplified, is what I don’t like. If I announce that I am a black lesbian in the transition, people take it out. Why?” He joked.

In 2023 he repeated these feelings Euronewssaid people to lose their sense of humor.

“(Activists) are very self-righteous, and if you do not agree, you are a transport, a homophobic … no! I am a phobic phob! I hate it! He said at the time.

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