Camerimage Festival Director Shares Statement About Adam Driver’s Viral Expletive Response During ‘Ferrari’ Audience Q&A

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Adam Driver’s lowkey visit to Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival turned into a viral internet meme over the weekend after the actor gave an expletive response to a question during an audience Q&A following a screening of Ferrari.

Marek Zydowicz, the festival’s director and founder, has now shared a statement in response to the viral clip, which has been the center of much discussion on the ground here in Torun.  “As is the case with any film festival featuring open conversations with invited artists, both sensible and completely trivial questions and comments.

In my opinion, the question raised during the Q&A with Adam Driver belonged to the second category,” Zydowicz’s statement read. “It was an assessment, lacking deeper reasoning, which is against the spirit of our festival and the work we are aiming to achieve.”  Zydowicz continued to say that the goal of Camerimage is to “celebrate, honor, and recognize the art of moving pictures as well as the great artists and collaborators of films.”  “We look forward to audiences seeing Michael Mann’s Ferrari, and the deeply authentic excellent work he and his filmmaking team, including Adam Driver, have accomplished,” the statement concluded.

Read the statement in full below. During the Q&A in question, the audience member asked Driver about crash scenes in Ferrari, which they described as “pretty harsh” and “cheesy.” In response, Driver said: “F**k you, I don’t know.