John Waters, the so-called Pope of Trash, talks about bad sex, his new novel, 'Liarmouth,' the 50th anniversary of 'Pink Flamingos, and more.
s protagonist, Marsha Sprinkle, gets off on lying. What does your book say about the truth?
It was nothing different; I just want to make people laugh at things they are surprised to laugh at. And in a novel I got to go deeper in describing characters’ feelings. I’m always just trying to make myself laugh first, and then my friends, and then my readers. I think, “Am I going to get away with this one?”
You mentioned that Marsha practices “random acts of meanness.” What does your book say about the world? I can’t think of one. What’s an exploitation film anymore? It’s amazing there isn’t a Covid movie out. There would have been a Covid exploitation movie in two minutes in the Sixties.Fake violence in a movie, I have a great time with, but I don’t like to see real violence ever. If it’s a snuff movie, I’m not interested, because there’s no creativity in it.Maybe because they think, “Well, at least that didn’t happen to me today. I had a bad day, but I didn’t get shoved in front of a subway.
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