Ridley Scott, the director of Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator and The Martian, has taken aim at Donald Trump and Boris Johnson over their leadership during the coronavirus pandemic.
Looking more widely, Scott suggested that half the world’s leaders were “idiots” and the other half “despots”.
Scott also said the disparity in the quality of coronavirus coverage across the US news networks was “insane”.
Speaking to Variety from his home in Los Angeles, Scott, 82, said he thought “this orange-headed fellow that’s running us” is “a nutcase, isn’t he”?