Cult gay filmmaker John Waters embraces a shift from outlaw to insider
American filmmaker John Waters is well known for pushing boundaries with exuberantly provocative works exploring taboos around themes such as pornography and LGBTQ+ relationships. But now the cult director, known as the “Pope of Trash”, says he is happy to come in from the cold, as his storytelling finds new audiences. “Everybody now wants to be an outsider,” Waters, 76, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from his office in the northeastern US city of Baltimore. “Both (former U.S. presidents Barack) Obama and (Donald) Trump would call themselves outsiders,…
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