“I think Oprah Winfrey would make an absolutely brilliant president,” the Oscar-winning director told the Guardian on Thursday.
Spielberg, in London to promote his new movie The Post, said: “If she declares, I will back her.”
Asked if his endorsement was serious, Spielberg said it was and that he’d “like the next president to be a president of the people.”
The undeclared but burgeoning campaign to elect Oprah Winfrey the next President of the United States has received another boost, with the full-throated backing of one of Hollywood’s biggest figures: Steven Spielberg.