“Cuties” director Maïmouna Doucouré says she received death threats after an American poster released by Netflix for her film sexualized young girls, even though the poster wrongly characterized the actual content of the movie.
Doucouré told Deadline in an interview Thursday that she only saw the American poster for the movie after it had already made the rounds on social media. Netflix apologized publicly for the controversy last month, but Doucouré said she received a call from Ted Sarandos apologizing to her directly.
“I received numerous attacks on my character from people who had not seen the film, who thought I was actually making a film that was apologetic about hypersexualization of children,” she said, adding that she received “numerous” death threats.