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Steven Spielberg's fear of Covid drove him to make new film

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Steven Spielberg says the Covid pandemic pushed him to make his new film as he thought it could be an “extinction-level event”.
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The 76-year old filmmaker took home the prize for Best Director – Motion Picture for his coming-of-age drama 'The Fabelmans’ beating James Cameron ('Avatar: The Way of Water'), Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan ('Everything Everywhere All at Once'), Baz Luhrmann ('Elvis') and Martin McDonagh ('The Banshees of Inisherin') to the accolade. Spielberg was ecstatic with his triumph as the semi-autobiographical tale is inspired by his own childhood. He said: “I’m really, really happy about this. "I’ve been hiding from this story since I was 17 years old. I put a lot of things in my way of this story. “I told this story in parts and parcels all through my career. ‘E.T.’ has a lot to do with this story. ‘Close Encounters...’ has a lot to do with this story. But I never had the courage to hit this story head-on until Tony Kushner [and I] were working on ‘Munich’ a long time ago, [and he] started telling me about all these stories about [his] life. "And we started a conversation. And the conversation lasted all through ‘Munich,’ all through ‘Lincoln’ and ‘West Side Story.’ And my wife Kate was always saying, ‘You have to tell this.'"

Steven Spielberg's fear of Covid drove him to make new film

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