Why Hollywood director Adam McKay is offering himself up for arrest

The Hollywood director blames the media for failing to report on the severity of the climate crisis , writes Donnachadh McCarthy

If you say McKay, we need you to get arrested, I am at your service. It is high time someone put the cuffs on me, says the director (Reuters)

As we tackle the west’s addiction to fossil fuels, provoked by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the dire warnings from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Hollywood director Adam Mckay (Don’t Look Up!) made an extraordinary offer last week. Speaking at an event jointly hosted by Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Just Stop Oil (JSO), he offered himself up for arrest.

“If you say ‘McKay, we need you to get arrested [for climate activism]’, I am at your service. It is high time someone put the cuffs on me.”

JSO is planning a series of major climate protection actions to disrupt the UK’s oil and gas supplies this spring, in an effort to force the government to stop all new fossil fuel investments. Extinction Rebellion is planning another of their spectacular, peaceful direct action rebellions in London from 9 April.