When promoting his game A Way Out last year at The Game Awards, Josef Fares went on a rant about the Oscars. So when he visited IGN recently, we had the filmmaker-turned-game-developer watch the rant and got his thoughts on his speech that went viral.
“This is the thing with me, I never plan anything, I don’t write scripts,” Fares said after watching his “f*** the Oscars” statements on the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered. “The problem is that sometimes in my head I have all these things to say, but they come out weirdly,” he explained.
“So with the ‘f*** the Oscars’ thing, it’s because I heard earlier… people talking about, ‘Yeah, this is like the games’ Oscars,’ and I’m like, ‘F*** that, man. This is great. F*** the Oscars,'” Fares added. “It’s not like I particularly have something against the Oscars…. I’m a filmmaker!”