Werner Herzog vs Piers Morgan | On Putin, Hollywood Cancel Culture And More

Piers Morgan Uncensored welcomes filmmaker, author, poet, philosopher and living legend Werner Herzog for an in-depth interview on his incredible life and career.

Speaking to Piers Morgan, the writer and director discusses everything from playing the villain, to woke culture in Hollywood, to hypnotising chickens!

00:00 - Introduction
03:00 - Accessibility
03:21 - Playing the villain
06:15 - What's the greatest film ever made?
07:20 - Cancel culture in cinema
11:57 - Woke culture in Hollywood - "The pendulum will swing back"
12:50 - Human behaviour and intimacy onscreen
14:45 - “Do you consider yourself to be a Hollywood Director?"
17:00 - On comic book movies taking over
18:00 - Herzog’s biography and family history
20:30 - Collapse of institutions, the Congo and Germany
22:54 - Israel-Hamas war and the surge of antisemitism
23:00 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladmir Putin and Russia-Ukraine war
24:40 - Lessons of history and demonising political leaders
29:00 - “You ate your shoe, is that true?”
30:40 “ Did you stab your brother over a pet hamster?”
32:10 - Hypnotising chickens as a hobby
34:30 - Not owning a cellphone
35:00 - Volunteering with Elon Musk and distortion in the media
36:45 - “Do you feel lucky to be alive?”
39:40 - Barbie vs Oppenheimer

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