Neil Blomkamp has an awkward interview
Still not exactly sure what happened here. I’m not a “my interview went off the rails!” person because I find it kinda embarrassing, but let’s just say I wish this interview with Neill Blomkamp had “turned out differently.” (And I liked Gran Turismo.) https://t.co/heNocDDsP2
- Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) August 22, 2023
- Neil Blomkamp cut his interview with Uproxxx short after the journalist interviewing him asked too many District Nine questions
- He's promoting Gran Turismo but when the questions turned to District Nine things got increasingly awkward with Blomkamp turning monosyllabic after the writer offered up this Sam Mendes quote "“When it’s not successful, people still review your first picture when you make your second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth.” I’m just wondering if you feel that way."
- Blomkamp tried to redirect the conversation towards Gran Turismo but the publicist quickly cut the interview short
- The interviewer is now annoyed about it
Okay I’m starting to get annoyed again a bit. To be clear: you don’t want to talk about a prior movie? And a movie that didn’t happen? Fair enough! But once he asked me to talk *more* about Gran Turismo, then I obliged and he blew me off, that’s when I had enough pic.twitter.com/FDuo7PRndf
- Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) August 22, 2023
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IDK I'm kind of team Blomkamp on this one, it seemed like the interviewer didn't pick up on how awkward things were getting.