Brett Ratner, the director of a new documentary about Melania Trump, said Thursday he understood why crew members reportedly asked that their names not be on the film.
After Rolling Stone reported that the majority of the “Melania” New York crew requested that they not be formally credited, Ratner was asked about it at the Kennedy Center premiere.
“I understand if a liberal is working on the movie and they don’t want to be credited, but they want to feed their family. I don’t blame anybody for that,” he said.
Ratner hinted that at least some of the reluctant workers were “day players” on his filming locations in New York, D.C. and Florida.
One production person who does have their name on the project told the outlet they regretted doing so because of Trump’s second term. “I’m much more alarmed now than I was a year ago,” the person said.
“I feel a little bit uncomfortable with the propaganda element of this,” another said in Rolling Stone. “But Brett Ratner was the worst part of working on this project.”
In fact, Rolling Stone wrote, several complained about Ratner while praising Melania Trump as “friendly and very engaged.”