“Nazis weren’t cool when I wrote it,” joked Jojo Rabbit filmmaker Taika Waititi about making and releasing his Adolf Hitler comedy in the current divided political climate, one wh…
which found themselves months later with awards season’s top prize.at it TIFF world premiere was rapturous. Word of mouth will be this pic’s best friend when it opens limited from Fox Searchlight on October 18.organically wags a finger at the current climate, “That happens quite a lot, I find, where films come out and they weirdly reflect or are like a mirror to what’s actually going on in the real world. Which is why, for me, film is such an important medium.
When it comes to playing Hitler, Waititi says, “I didn’t feel that uncomfortable, other than having to see myself in a mirror. But apart from that, I don’t want to say that I enjoyed it.”Jojo Rabbit
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