Overview
- The Succession actor, in an interview published Friday by The Times, said he will "say what I want" as he nears 80.
- He said he declined the Pirates of the Caribbean governor role to avoid working with Johnny Depp, calling Depp "so overblown, so overrated."
- He leveled fresh barbs at peers, calling Edward Norton "a pain in the arse," Kevin Spacey "a stupid, stupid man," and Quentin Tarantino "meretricious," while dismissing Gary Oldman’s Churchill turn as "cobblers."
- He revisited his dispute over Method acting, saying Jeremy Strong asked him to stop talking about it and adding he has not reached out to Daniel Day-Lewis.
- He broadened the critique to politics, saying President Donald Trump "doesn’t give a s*** about the people" and arguing the American patriarchy is "invasive" and "insidious."