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'I wouldn't advise going to Malta on holiday,' Ridley Scott said after his movie got €47 million from Maltese taxpayers

'I wouldn't advise going there on holiday,' Ridley Scott told fans after his movie got a record €47 million from Maltese taxpayers

I wouldn't advise going there on holiday," he tells Nolan, before turning half-jokingly to the audience to make sure there were no Maltese people present. But the full, 23-minute, unedited interview was uploaded on Paramount Pictures' YouTube channel and has, at the time of writing, over 80,000 views. The government committed to giving the money as part of a generous cash-back scheme that promises production houses up to 40 per cent rebate if they film in Malta.

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