Well, I daresay she’s held such views for a long time and was shrewd enough to keep them under wraps while she was cultivating her celebrity status. If I were Spielberg, I might tend to think I was played, even if it was well in the past. The fact remains that she’s got a higher profile now from which to spew her nonsense, thanks in large part to the success of his film.
She was a Pulitzer Prize winner already. The popularity of her novel is what drew SS to it. That’s not a good film btw which doesn’t get much play today.