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Brian May, guitarrista de Queen, se retracta de sus palabras y pide disculpas a sus seguidores después de defender públicamente al director de Bohemian Rhapsody, Bryan Singer, acusado por varios menores de abuso sexual.
La polémica arrancó cuando un fan sugirió a May que dejara de seguir al realizador de X-Men: Apocalipsis tras las numerosas denuncias a las que se enfrenta, entre las que se incluye una presunta violación a un menor de 17 años. Ante la petición, el guitarrista respondió: "Métete en tus asuntos y deja de decirme qué debo hacer. Necesitas aprender a respetar el hecho de que un hombre o una mujer es inocente hasta que se demuestre lo contrario".
La respuesta del también astrofísico despertó una ola de indignación entre los fans que hizo reflexionar al artista, quien finalmente se retractó de lo dicho y pidió perdón a la internauta. "Siento mucho haber respondido a tu publicación de forma tan rápida y desconsiderada", comienza la disculpa, "ahora me doy cuenta de que estaba completamente equivocado en pensar que me estabas ordenando qué hacer".
"Solo tratabas de protegerme, te lo agradezco", continua May, quien asegura que no tenía "ninguna intención" de "defender" al director. "Tampoco se me había ocurrido que seguir a una persona en Instagram podría ser interpretado como una aprobación hacia esa persona". El músico, finalmente, optó por seguir el consejo del fan y dejó de seguir a Singer.
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Dear Folks - I was shocked and saddened to realise what I had done by my hasty and inconsiderate IG reply to this lady yesterday. I’ve posted an apology to her in the ‘reply’ box, but it seems to have disappeared - so I’m going to try to repeat it here, to be clear. ———- Dear Sue, I’m so sorry that I responded to your post so snappily and inconsiderately. My response was a result of my perception that someone was telling me what to do. I now realise that I was completely wrong in thinking that. You were actually just trying to protect me, for which I thank you. I am mortified to discover the effect my words produced. I had no idea that saying someone was innocent until proven guilty could be interpreted as “defending“ Bryan Singer. I had absolutely no intention of doing that. I guess I must be naive, because also it had never occurred to me that ‘following’ a person on Instagram could be interpreted as approving of that person. The only reason I followed Bryan Singer was that we were working with him on a project. That situation came to an end when Mr Singer was removed during the shooting of the film, but I suppose unfollowing him never occurred to me as a necessity. Now, because of this misunderstanding, I have unfollowed. I’m so sorry. This must have caused you a lot of upset. I wish I could take the comment back, but all I can do is apologise, and hope that my apology will begin to make amends. Sadly, this is all very public, but since I snapped at you in public, it’s only fitting that I should apologise in public. I’m going to try to follow you so we can communicate privately if you want. With love - Bri. —— I should add that this is also a sincere apology to anyone else out there that I inadvertently offended. No such offence was intended and I will be more careful in future. Bri
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El mismo día que un informe detallaba cuatro nuevas denuncias contra Singer, Bohemian Rhapsody era nominada por la Academia a cinco premios Oscar, incluyendo mejor película y mejor actor para su protagonista Rami Malek.
Singer fue despedido pocas semanas antes de finalizar el rodaje del biopic de Freddie Mercury, cuya filmación continuó bajo la batuta de Dexter Fletcher (Eddie el Águila, Amanece en Edimburgo). La rescisión del contrato se justificó por las constantes ausencias del cineasta en el rodaje.
