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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Mike Figgis: that LAX "shoot a pilot" thing was bogus

Jonathan Mitchell from Public Radio International tells BoingBoing,

Regarding the Mike Figgis LAX story, it's not true.
We were thinking of reporting this story on a radio show I work on, so we did a little fact checking. We contacted Figgis' publicist, and got this email from Mike Figgis himself:
the story is a complete exageration of something I said in an interview, namely...I was being questioned in toronto airport by the US immigration officer who said "purpose of your visit?" and I was about to reply "I'm here to shoot a pilot" when I thought better of it and said
"I'm here to film the 1st episode of a potential series for Fox/Sony"
This was exactly as I said it to the journalist and the next I knew of it was phone calls wishing me deepest sympathies etc and the venue had moved to LAX and I had been arrested etc etc.
I've had distortion before in interviews but never fiction. If it had been true it would have been a good story - sorry to dissappoint All the best - mike figgis

The fake news broke on either Moviefone / AOL or Cinematical, I'm not sure. But someone has some 'splainin' to do.

Previously:

TSA detains director Mike Figgis for threatening to "shoot a pilot"

posted by Xeni Jardin at 08:55:21 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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