Shōgun scooped Best International series at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday — and showrunner Justin Marks appeared to reference Donald Trump‘s tariff plan in his acceptance speech.
Collecting the prize on stage at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Marks made explicit reference to the global nature of his FX and Disney+ series Shōgun.
“You have a bunch of Americans who got together with a bunch of Europeans and a bunch of Japanese and made a show in Canada, and now we are standing here on stage in England,” he said.
“That we are on stage is truly a testament to the spirit of grand international collaboration that our crew of 3,000 people espoused. It’s a spirit that is sadly disappearing from the world right now.” Marks added: “Thank you, BAFTA… for honoring this idea that good television is truly a borderless nation.”
Trump’s planned film tariff has been a matter of debate at the BAFTAs. On the red carpet, The Crown star Jonathan Pryce joked that he worries about being barred from America for voicing his full views on Donald Trump‘s vision to slap tariffs on foreign films.
Pryce said he was planning to visit New York in the coming weeks and did not wish to say “too much” about tariffs. “I want to get in easily, I don’t want to be sent back,” he laughed. Pryce continued: “The frustrating thing about the tariffs is he [Trump] announces it, panics everybody by not telling them the details. So you’ve got people in Cannes now trying to do deals and it’s going to be impossible until he says exactly what it is and how he is going to police it.”
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