Charles says in conversation with The Daily Beast.
“He surrounded himself more with traditional showbiz people and received advice from them, but in my opinion that was not the right advice for the kind of rebellious sensitivity that Sacha had had until then,” says Charles. “That is why, in addition to a number of other reasons, the contact began to drop and fall apart.”
Charles found The Dictator From 2012, about a tyrant (Cohen) who does not want democracy in his country at all costs, ultimately not a bad film. “He is good, he is funny. There are many funny things in it, but it just didn’t make it the potential in it.”
According to the director, it had to do with “the input of people from outside” and a lack of “focus” of his protagonist that the mutual atmosphere became less and eventually lost contact.
“I tried to let himself trust himself and let him go on his instinct,” says Charles. “But instead, he trusted so many other people with such conflicting thoughts that there were problems that would never have been otherwise.”