Grimes says she was fired from working on promoting ‘Dune’ as an “influencer”
nme.comGrimes has claimed that she was fired from promoting Dune for Warner Bros as an “influencer”.Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi books came out last year and starred Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya.Speaking to Vanity Fair for a new cover story, Grimes shared her love for Herbert’s books, and revealed that she had dreams of directing her own Dune adaptation.She then went on to say that she was initially hired by Warner to promote the film via her social media following. “I was basically an influencer,” she explained.The Canadian singer and producer – real name Claire Boucher – then said that she was unexpectedly removed from the project, and says it was due to an infamous Instagram post of her posing while reading The Communist Manifesto.“There are things that are deeply not woke in the ‘Dune’ universe,” she added.paparazzi followed me 2 a shoot so I tried 2 think what I could do that would yield the most onion-ish possible headline and it worked haha pic.twitter.com/9w8pPwIFAq—.
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