Actor and comedian John Cleese has announced a lawsuit over the "deception, disingenuousness and tone" of an interview he gave to BBC World Asia in which he was asked about "Cancel Culture" (the term refers to withdrawing support for a public figure who has expressed offensive attitudes).
As he clarified on the Twitter social network, the journalist did not stick to the agreed topics and tried to present him as "old-fashioned, disinterested and generally harmful".
“I just did an interview with BBC World Asia. The occasion was my show, which I shoot in Singapore and Bangkok. Instead, a journalist whose name, I think, is Karishma, started asking me about the 'cancellation of culture'. I responded politely and explained that if parents are overprotective, it will not prepare their child for the real world. She then asked me several unrelated questions, with the intention of portraying me as old-fashioned, disinterested and generally harmful,” he wrote.
The star of "Monty Python" claims that his answers were ignored, and that the journalist started asking him about the pandemic and his American colleague Dave Chappelle, who had commented negatively on the LGBT+ community for Netflix.
"I took off my headphones, saying it was not an interview I agreed to. That's why I will make an official complaint to the BBC," he wrote.
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