Wes Anderson Talks Strikes & Controversial Roald Dahl Book Edits: “I Don’t Even Want The Artist To Modify Their Work” — Venice
deadline.comWes Anderson arrived on the Lido this morning with The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, his second film of the year and his latest Roald Dahl adaptation following 2009’s Fantastic Mr.
Fox. The 40-minute feature debuts this evening at Venice out of competition, and at the official press conference this morning, Anderson was asked about his opinion on recent efforts from Roald Dahl’s publishers to edit now-offensive material out of his work. “I’m probably the worst person to ask about this because if you ask me if Renoir should be allowed to touch up one of his pictures, I would say no.
It’s done,” Anderson said. “I don’t even want the artist to modify their work. I understand the motivation for it, but I’m in the school where when the piece of work is done we participate in it.
We know it. So I think when it’s done, it’s done.” Anderson added: “And certainly no one who is not an author should be modifying somebody’s book.
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