As any entertainment journalist who has interviewed James Gunn will tell you, the director of comic book adaptations “Guardians of the Galaxy” and the upcoming “The Suicide Squad” is never shy about answering questions honestly and unreservedly.
It’s a rare quality in such a public and successful figure in the entertainment industry, especially when so many interviewees today carefully mitigate and sanitize their answers to avoid all chance of possible controversy.Like, for example, what happened on Wednesday when veteran entertainment journalist Josh Horowitz released an excerpt from his podcast interview with Gunn.
In the clip, Horowitz asks Gunn what it’s like to always be the one defending superhero movies from people like Martin Scorsese, who infamously said in October 2019, while promoting his film “The Irishman,” that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is “not cinema,” comparing superhero movies to theme parks.Gunn could have demurred by politely noting that
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