After “Conclave” screenwriter Peter Straughan earned the Golden Globe for greatest screenplay on Sunday night, he took a second to deal with Megyn Kelly’s viral rant in regards to the movie.
“Simply made the large mistake of watching the much-celebrated ‘Conclave’ and it’s the most disgusting anti-Catholic movie I’ve seen in a very long time,” Kelly wrote to her 3.4 million X followers. “Disgrace on Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci & John Lithgow for starring in it & disgrace on director Edward Berger (amongst others).”
Kelly took offense to the movie’s twist ending, by which the newly elected pope, Vincent Cardinal Benitez (Carlos Diehz), reveals he’s intersex. Fiennes’ character agrees to maintain the information a secret as his election is made public.
“They make THE POPE INTERSEX! That is the large thrilling twist on the finish. I want I had recognized so I wouldn’t have watched it,” Kelly wrote in her publish. “There are nearly no redeeming characters within the film – each cardinal is morally bankrupt/repulsive. The one exception after all is the intersex pope (who – shock! – has feminine reproductive components) & the cardinal who retains her secret – bc after all that type of Catholic secret-keeping should be lionized. I’m disgusted. What a factor to launch to streaming simply in time for Christmas. They’d by no means do that to Muslims, however Christians/Catholics are at all times honest recreation to mock/belittle/smear.”
Whereas Straughan hadn’t immediately heard Kelly’s feedback, he rejected the declare that the movie is “anti-Catholic,” telling Selection within the Golden Globes press room, “I don’t suppose the movie is anti-Catholic. I used to be introduced up Catholic. I used to be an altar boy.”
“I believe the core message of ‘Conclave’ is in regards to the church at all times having to re-find its non secular core, as a result of it offers a lot with energy. That’s at all times been a cautious, troublesome steadiness,” Straughan continued. “To me, that was a really central Catholic excellent that I used to be introduced up with. I stand by it.”
Straughan tailored “Conclave” from the ebook of the identical identify by Robert Harris.
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