There was a 2013 tweet, “Kathryn Bigelow would be considered a mildly interesting filmmaker if she was a man but since she’s a very hot woman she’s really overrated,” which inspired such furor he issued a formal apology in The Daily Beast. He’s complained about liberals who think he’s a Trump apologist, then defended Kanye West’s conservative sympathies. He was called racist after he claimed “Black Panther” was a sop to Hollywood’s “diversity push.” “Black Twitter is hard-core,” he said. In some ways, Ellis himself certainly has. While he was writing “American Psycho,” Ellis recalled, “all the guys on Wall Street were reading ‘The Art of the Deal,’ and Trump bothered me enough that I decided to make him Patrick Bateman’s father figure.”

Source: New York Times March 31, 2019 09:00 UTC