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“I’d not return there on vacation, however the structure goes from medieval proper via to renaissance, and when it’s good, it’s spectacular,” he stated.
His jibe angered politicians on the sun-kissed Mediterranean island, which funneled a document €47 million in money rebates to the producers of “Gladiator 2.”
Valletta Cultural Agency Chairman Jason Micallef known as Scott a “bully,” whereas Maltese opposition MP Adrian Delia stated the director hadn’t proven “respect … in direction of those that welcomed you warmly, shared and lent their historical past and tradition and showered you with tens of millions to credit score to your tax invoice.”
“You suggested the world to not go to us as vacationers. Well, enable me to advise you to not go to in any respect,” Delia wrote on social media. “Not to display your films, to not plunder our hard-earned tax coffers and positively to not spit disrespect in our faces.”
National Heritage Minister Owen Bonnici downplayed Scott’s criticism, calling trip locations a “private and subjective alternative.”
Scott despatched a press release to Maltese media on Monday strolling again his feedback, saying they had been “an try at humour that sadly bought misplaced.”
