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Oscars 2020: Facundo, Mexican driver “speaks Korean” in front of Bong Joon-ho, the director of “Parasite” and the networks explode against him | Oscars | Oscar | Aztec TV | Mexico Hollywood

Updated on 02/10/2020 at 12:27

It was only a few seconds but they are already charging bills on social networks: Facundo, the envoy of Aztec TV to cover the red carpet of the awards Oscar, headed to Bong Joon-ho, director of “Parasite”, To do an interview in which he began by saying that they could speak to him in Korean if he wanted to and when the director said yes, the Mexican driver wanted to imitate the sounds of the language and in the end he released a“ hello ”in Korean.

Although the director was not angry about it, Twitter users considered a disrespectful and even somewhat racist way of approaching the filmmaker, who won the Sunday night Oscar for Best Direction and Screenplay for “Parasite

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Seconds later, Facundo He kept joking about what the director said in Korean without waiting for the translator to explain.

“He said something about monsters!” Facundo exclaimed, while the translator clarified what the director said: “I had a very particular childhood, we watched family television, I had very normal relationships. But I became obsessed with cinema, ”he said.

“We owe an apology to South Korea and mainly to the director Bong Joon-ho for having run into the most stupid character on Mexican television. Facundo, ”one of the people outraged by the TV host’s deal with the filmmaker said on Twitter.

Minutes before his meeting with Bong Joon, ho, Facundo said through his Instagram account: “When I saw the movie”Parasite”I thought the director was a crazy maniac out of series, a freak. Is he”.

Others emphasized that in general, his driving was dismal, his jokes without joke and that he was not the best person to be in an event as important as this.

Source: With information from GDA / El Universal de México

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