Paul Feig Recalls 'Ghostbusters' Backlash & Thinks It Was Tied To An Anti-Hillary Clinton Movement
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justjared.comPaul Feig is opening up about the backlash he and his movie, Ghostbusters, recieved following the casting of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones.
Speaking to Julia Cunningham on The Jess Cagle Show on SiriusXM, the director remembers the negativity that surrounded the film. “Some really brilliant author or researcher or sociologist needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined [our film was] with Hillary [Clinton] and the anti-Hillary movement,” Paul shared. “It was just this year where everyone went to a boiling point.
I don’t know if it was [having] an African-American president for eight years [that] teed them up or something, but they were just ready to explode…By the time, in 2014 or 2015, when I
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