Throughout his press convention, the star regarded exhausted as he held the microphone in a single hand whereas his different was pressed towards his face.
He advised reporters: “The Academy have exercised actually extraordinary cowardice relating to being a part of the larger world of expression, and in reality, have largely been a part of limiting the creativeness and really limiting of various cultural expressions.
“So I do not… get very enthusiastic about what we’ll name the Academy Awards (aside from) when a movie like The Florida Mission, or I am Nonetheless Right here, or, you already know, Emilia Perez, of the issues which might be prone to occur this yr.”
The Mystic River star then set his sights on backlash surrounding Ali Abbasi’s Trump biopic starring Sebastian Stan because the president-elect and Jeremy Sturdy as his lawyer Roy Cohn.