[yesthatjallen]

They're using this to drum up free publicity for the film.

They will succeed.

Everyone will be talking about this.

This is an old hollywood ploy. You see it all the time when, just before a film comes out, one of the actors (who happens to have a new film coming out) makes a public comment which makes 'news'.

This is how hollywood PR firms "generate buzz".

[JMS]

I don’t know, he kind of reminds me of Buttgig