Werner Herzog vs Piers Morgan | On Putin, Hollywood Cancel Culture And More

Piers Morgan Uncensored welcomes filmmaker, author, poet, philosopher and living legend Werner Herzog for an in-depth interview on his incredible life and career. Speaking to Piers Morgan, the writer and director discusses everything from playing the villain, to woke culture in Hollywood, to hypnotising chickens! 00:00 - Introduction 03:00 - Accessibility 03:21 - Playing the villain 06:15 - What’s the greatest film ever made? 07:20 - Cancel culture in cinema 11:57 - Woke culture in Hollywood - “The pendulum will swing back“ 12:50 - Human behaviour and intimacy onscreen 14:45 - “Do you consider yourself to be a Hollywood Director?“ 17:00 - On comic book movies taking over 18:00 - Herzog’s biography and family history 20:30 - Collapse of institutions, the Congo and Germany 22:54 - Israel-Hamas war and the surge of antisemitism 23:00 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladmir Putin and Russia-Ukraine war 24:40 - Lessons of history and demonising poli