Paul Feig believes the reaction to Hillary Clinton’s bid for U.S. presidency harmed his female-fronted Ghostbusters movie. The 57-year-old director and the stars of the 2016 Ghostbusters – Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones – came under fire from fans of the original movies for their reboot, and the film ultimately under-performed at the box office.
During an interview on Jess Cagle’s SiriusXM show, Feig insisted that the “anti-Hillary movement” played a big role in the hate against his movie. “I think that some really brilliant author or researcher or sociologist needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined we were with Hillary and the anti-Hillary movement, it was just this year where, I don’t know,
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