This story discusses plot particulars from the 2024 movie “Conclave.”
“Conclave” screenwriter Peter Straughan is pushing again towards Megyn Kelly’s headline-grabbing criticisms of the movie.
Talking to Selection after successful a Golden Globe for the film Sunday, Straughan dismissed Kelly’s declare that “Conclave” is “anti-Catholic.”
“I don’t think the film is anti-Catholic,” he advised the outlet. “I think the core message of ‘Conclave’ is about the church always having to re-find its spiritual core, because it deals so much with power. That’s always been a careful, difficult balance.”
Noting that he’d been an altar boy in his youth, he added: “To me, that was a very central Catholic ideal that I was brought up with. I stand by it.”
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Tailored from Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, “Conclave” follows Cardinal Dean Thomas Lawrence (performed by Ralph Fiennes), who’s tasked with overseeing the Vatican’s seek for a brand new pope. 4 candidates quickly emerge, every with their very own set of secrets and techniques or scandals.
With a supporting forged that features John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, “Conclave” has acquired glowing opinions and emerged as an awards season front-runner, notably within the wake of Straughan’s Golden Globe win within the class of Greatest Screenplay — Movement Image.
Kelly, nevertheless, was amongst these not impressed by the film, deeming it the “most disgusting anti-Catholic film I have seen in a long time.”
The previous Fox Information host took notably goal on the film’s conclusion ― by which one of many characters is revealed to be intersex ― in a prolonged rant on X, previously Twitter.
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“There are almost no redeeming characters in the movie – every cardinal is morally bankrupt/repulsive,” she wrote within the now-viral publish. “What a thing to release to streaming just in time for Christmas. They would never do this to Muslims, but Christians/Catholics are always fair game to mock/belittle/smear.”
Although Fiennes has not but publicly responded to Kelly’s remarks, he preemptively defended “Conclave” towards such criticisms in an Entertainment Weekly interview revealed in November.
“It was neither a cynical takedown or satire on the Vatican, nor was it preaching and overly religious,” he mentioned. “The big question is: Who is worthy? Who is the right person to become Pope? Who will have the spiritual foundation and integrity to hold that position?”
