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‘Conclave’ Screenwriter Defends Film Amid Megyn Kelly’s Claims It’s ‘Anti-Catholic’: ‘I Stand By It’


After "Conclave" screenwriter Peter Straughan earned the Golden Globe for best screenplay, he addressed Megyn Kelly's viral rant about the film.

After “ Conclave ” screenwriter Peter Straughanearned the Golden Globe for best screenplay on Sunday evening, he took a moment to address Megyn Kelly’s viral rant about the film. “Just made the huge mistake of watching the much-celebrated ‘Conclave’ and it is the most disgusting anti-Catholic film I have seen in a long time,” Kelly wrote to her 3.4 million X followers. Kelly took offense to the film’s twist ending, in which the newly elected pope, Vincent Cardinal Benitez (Carlos Diehz), reveals he is intersex.

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