Ron Howard and Elon Musk
(Picture: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images / ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)DIRECTOR Ron Howard has explained why he chose to keep “high-profile distraction” Elon Musk out of his film about the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue. Musk, right, tried to help in the effort to save a football team trapped in a cave but baselessly called one of the rescue divers “pedo guy” in a tweet.
Speaking at the premiere of film Thirteen Lives last night, Howard, far right, told us Musk “never really was a central part of the conversation”. Actor Joel Edgerton told us the Musk issue was a “silly distraction” from “a positive effort to rescue these kids”. British diver Rick Stanton said the rescue showed the importance of expertise. “If you don’t know anything about a subject, trust the experts,” he said, suggesting the pandemic was a case in point.
