Francis Ford Coppola said in an interview published Sunday that he didn’t want his new movie “Megalopolis” to be woke, so went all out in mitigating this risk.

Coppola is arguably one of the most iconic directors in cinematic history, thanks to his works like “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” and he’s making a big statement with his latest flick “Megalopolis,” according to Rolling Stone. Coppola told the outlet he was so set on avoiding the woke mafia, that he hired “canceled” actors and big-time Republican Jon Voight.

“What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers. The cast features people who were canceled at one point or another,” Coppola told the outlet when asked about casting Voight, who apparently bares a “strong resemblance to [former President] Donald Trump,” so says Rolling Stone, “There were people who are archconservatives and others who are extremely politically progressive. But we were all working on one film........

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