Joe Russo Talks About the Backlash He Faced After Posting Funny Dog Video Poking Fun at Martin Scorsese

A couple of weeks ago, we reported about the joke that director Joe Russo made at the expense of Martin Scorsese and his dog. It was innocent fun, and really quite a light jab, but it made the internet go wild in defense of Scorsese, and now the Russo brothers are chatting about the debacle. In a recent sit down with Kevin Smith, Joe Russo discussed the backlash his video received. When Smith declared that everybody loves Scorsese, Russo agreed, saying:

"Yes, everybody does. He's one of the reasons, one of the biggest reasons that we're sitting up here, right, it's the influence of his movies. You know, it's interesting because my daughter runs my social media account the way his daughter runs his social media account, and we saw this cute video he did with his dog, and we happen to have an identical dog, they're both Schnauzers, and I thought, 'This is hilarious, this could be really cute.' His video is talking to his dog, he's coaching it through, you know, like he's training his dog like it's going to do a part for him. His dog's name is Oscar."

He continued:

"My daughter was like, 'That's funny, what if our dog's name was Box Office?' And I went, 'Oh, that's funny. That's cute.' And then we posted it on TikTok. We do a bunch of TikTok videos together, it's like how I stay connected to my daughter. She has all these funny ideas and we're trying all this shit all the time. And we posted it and then people discovered it like a week after we posted it. I think people conflated the timing of when they discovered it with his movie, which was not the intention. This was just like a broad appeal joke."

Russo went on to call it a "shit storm" and joked that he got "internet-ed." You can watch the video below:

via: Comic Book