Ralph Fiennes had many questions for Pope Leo XIV about his thoughts on the 2024 film Conclave. The actor told Entertainment Weekly while promoting his upcoming horror film, 28 Years Later, that he was “delighted” the pope watched the Academy Award winning movie before the real papal conclave met. “Did he enjoy it? Did he just shrug his shoulders and say halfway through, ‘This is rubbish’? Or did he get something from it? I’d like to know what he thought,” he said. Fiennes admitted that the movie’s power politics were most likely “amped up for entertainment purposes,” but that he hoped the pope “saw something of value in it.” “I guess if the next pope watched Conclave, of course, at a simplistic level, I’m delighted. But I mean, I want him to like it. If he didn’t like it, what can I do? I’ve done it!” he said. Leo’s brother, John Prevost, revealed in May that he had asked Leo prior to the actual conclave if he had watched the movie, “so you know how to behave,” alleging that the future pope “had just finished watching” it. A handful of the 133 cardinals at the conclave also allegedly watched Conclave to prepare for the real thing, a cleric involved telling Politico that the movie was surprisingly accurate.
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