Green Book writer deletes Twitter after resurfacing of anti-Muslim tweet
Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortenson’s newly minted Golden Globe winner Green Book is not, in an objective sense, a very good movie; its approach to the facile ways the racial divide in America can be healed with lazy “common sense” activities is positively Crash-esque, and it’s drawn heavy criticism from the family of Ali’s character, acclaimed pianist Donald Shirley, who say its story of an unlikely interracial friendship between its two leads is mostly bullshit. The film’s co-writer, Nick Vallelonga—also, not coincidentally, the son of Mortenson’s affable racist, Tony—might have been able to offer a defense of his movie on social media tonight, except he can’t, because he deleted his Twitter account after people found an anti-Muslim tweet he made back in 2015.