Actor Mads Mikkelsen and manufacturer Nikolaj Arcel fired back at an unnamed reporter on the Venice Movie Competition on Friday over a query referring to forged variety of their unused movie, “The Promised Land.”

The film is about in 1750’s Denmark. Mikkelsen, 57, stars as a military captain suffering to lift his social situation and preserve his values in an more and more adversarial atmosphere. 

“This is a cast and Danish production that’s entirely Nordic, and, therefore, has some lack of diversity, you would say,” the reporter identified all the way through a Q&A consultation.

“There’s also new rules implied in Hollywood,” the scribe persevered, inflicting an unamused, Mikkelsen to break, asking the person: “What are you on to?”

The reporter used to be alluding to an Academy decree that motion pictures hoping to be nominated for the Perfect Image award at Oscar past must now meet strict diversity and inclusion guidelines.

“It’s not because of artistic reasons, it’s because of a lack of diversity, are you worried about it?” the person requested.

“Are you?” Mikkelsen shot again. “You’re putting us on the spot so you answer the question.”

Arcel intervened to signify that the film does come with an ethnically numerous persona who used to be a sufferer of racism.

“We do have a big plot line about a girl of color who is being subjected to racism … she was probably at the time the only [person of color] in the entire country of Denmark,” he defined.

“It wasn’t a thought in our mind, I think it would be a little weird — it’s just historical — how it was in the 1750s,” Arcel reasoned as Mikkelsen sipped a cup of H2O.

The Put up has contacted reps for Mikkelsen and Arcel for remark.

Somewhere else on the eightieth annual competition, Woody Allen called cancel culture “silly” next being dogged via decades-old sex abuse allegations from his followed daughter, Dylan Farrow.