The “worst thing” anyone in the film industry can do is panic about US president Donald Trump‘s warning about a 100 per cent tariff on non-US films, award-winning producer David Puttnam has said.
“I think the problem is we’re giving an extraordinary amount of credibility to an entirely ignorant tweet,” he told RTÉ radio’s Today with Claire Byrne show. Mr Puttnam said that in “four out of five, five out of six of the big policy statements he’s made, he’s retreated from. “The biggest issue was the uncertainty caused by president Trump’s comments.
Mr Puttnam said the president’s threat as “incredibly ignorant because it’s a very, very, very complicated…