Adam McKay Reveals He Got ‘Vice’ Wrong By Not Blaming Democrats: “Critics Were Fair, I F***ed Up”
deadline.comAdam McKay may be on a roll with his latest movie Don’t Look Up gunning for Oscar glory on Sunday evening, and his TV show Succession topping everyone’s list for the year’s must-watch, but it seems even he can admit to a mistake.“I f***ed up Vice,” he told the UK’s Sunday Times, referring to his 2018 Oscar-nominated biopic of Dick Cheney, which saw Christian Bale winning a Golden Globe for his transformation into George W Bush’s controversial vice president.
McKay told the broadsheet, “I regret not giving more blame to the Democrats, who went along with the war in Iraq.”He revealed, “I had a heart attack in postproduction.
I made mistakes, read the reviews and went, ‘Yes, fair.’”McKay seemed less philosophical about critics who piled in on Don’t Look Up.
He said, “No comedy is for everyone. I was still surprised by the anger from critics.“Critics are split. But, whatever. It was made for a global audience to call out a system ignoring the greatest threat to human life in history — climate crisis.”While the world waits for the fourth season of Succession – of which McKay will only reveal that showrunner Jesse Armstrong has shared with him the plot and, “It’s a humdinger” – the director has turned his attention to another pantheon of ambition, ruthlessness and pursuit of glory, the NBA.
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