Spike Lee has spoken out about the postponement of the Cannes Film Festival due to the coronavirus pandemic, and criticised the behaviour of US president Donald Trump.
“The president of the United States needs to stop calling this the Chinese virus,” the Do the Right Thing filmmaker told Variety.
“People are dying and France’s president has said, several times — I’m paraphrasing — ‘We are at war.’
Lee had been selected as the Jury President for Cannes 2020; in the same interview, he also spoke about the decision to cancel the festival.