Shōgun scooped Finest Worldwide collection on the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday — and showrunner Justin Marks appeared to reference Donald Trump‘s tariff plan in his acceptance speech.
Amassing the prize on stage on the Royal Pageant Corridor in London, Marks made express reference to the worldwide nature of his FX and Disney+ collection Shōgun.
“You may have a bunch of Individuals who obtained along with a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of Japanese and made a present in Canada, and now we’re standing right here on stage in England,” he mentioned.
“That we’re on stage is really a testomony to the spirit of grand worldwide collaboration that our crew of three,000 folks espoused. It’s a spirit that’s sadly disappearing from the world proper now.” Marks added: “Thanks, BAFTA… for honoring this concept that good tv is really a borderless nation.”
Trump’s deliberate movie tariff has been a matter of debate on the BAFTAs. On the purple carpet, The Crown star Jonathan Pryce joked that he worries about being barred from America for voicing his full views on Donald Trump‘s imaginative and prescient to slap tariffs on overseas movies.
Pryce mentioned he was planning to go to New York within the coming weeks and didn’t want to say “an excessive amount of” about tariffs. “I wish to get in simply, I don’t wish to be despatched again,” he laughed. Pryce continued: “The irritating factor concerning the tariffs is he [Trump] declares it, panics everyone by not telling them the main points. So that you’ve obtained folks in Cannes now attempting to do offers and it’s going to be not possible till he says precisely what it’s and the way he’s going to police it.”
