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In fact, when he discovered that two prominent members ofDonald Trump‘s administration, the president’s daughterIvanka Trumpand son-in-law,Jared Kushner, walked out early from their screening last month, he laughed.
On the latest episode ofEntertainment Weekly’s The Awardist podcast, the Oscar winner, 50, said that the news of their exit,which PEOPLE first reported last week, was “one of the least surprising things I’ve ever heard.”
“It felt like a scene we would actually shoot forVice, where you would show the audience at one point and see Jared and Ivanka get up and walk out,” McKay continued. “We actually at one point toyed with showing shots of the actual audience, and that would have been something we would have done. Yeah, that’s pretty remarkable.”
Last month, Kushner and Ivanka, both 37, stepped out of her father’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, where they spent part of the holidays, to catch a screening ofVice— which has attracted awards attention, polarized reviews andcriticism from the Cheney family.
A witness told PEOPLEthat the senior White House aides went to a West Palm Beach theater for a showing of McKay’s acidic retelling of the life and rise of Cheney, a former vice president and tremendously consequential figure in the political party that Ivanka’s father now leads.
Partway through the showing, she and Kushner and their Secret Service detail got up and left, the witness said.
It remains unclear what prompted the exit, though the witness described it as abrupt.
Christian Bale (right) as Dick Cheney inVice.Annapurna Pictures; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
In his acceptance speech, Bale, 44, thanked “Satan for giving me inspiration” for his performance.
“Satan probably inspired him to do this, too,” Liz wrote in her tweet.
source: people.com
