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Knowing Christian, hes probably still asleep, McKay said with a laugh.
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I cant imagine he would get up.
Maybe his agent has woken him by now.
And most importantly, for our big crew of incredibly talented people.
Everyone went the extra mile for this movie.
Despite the Oscar love, the critical reception toVicehas been more mixed and kickstarted some passionate political responses.
(Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushnerreportedly walked out of a screening in December.)
I knew our movie would be divisive, McKay said.
I knew the times we lived in, but I was like, wow!
There are people who love love it, and there are people who hate hate it.
This is what this was supposed to do.
It was supposed to generate these kinds of hot and cold responses.
I think the big challenge and the story that dwarfs all other stories is global warming, McKay explained.
Its really chilling, and every piece of data I see about it just gets worse and worse.
We really are in state of emergency.
Were in an atmospheric catastrophe right now.
So the trick is, how do you do that as a movie?
Thats what Im trying to figure out right now.
I have literally like four ideas Im kicking around, he continued.
One is starting to get more interesting than the rest, but well see.
I have months to kind of plan and work on it.
Like, You gotta do it, Christian!
Hes gotta have girth and weight andgravitas.
