Newly Emancipated Guy Ritchie Free To Admit Kabbalah Is A Load Of Horseshite

Ah, what a difference a divorce makes. To see Guy Ritchie’s jubilant face on the occasion of his 40th birthday on September 10—just weeks after Madonna had embarked on her Men Are All Sickening, Selfish Pigs Tour—is to look into the toothy grin of freedom itself. Sure, he got perhaps one more African orphan out of the bargain than he had hoped for, but there was really no point in looking backwards now, was there? He was 40 (still relatively young), his career was right back on track, and he would never again be faced with daily surveys of the, “So which do you think—the embroidered python jodhpurs or the deconstructed parachute pants?”-variety.

Compare that, then, with this interview, taken a few weeks earlier at TIFF, in which Extra cornered the director to ask him about his Untitled Kabbalah Project I Have No Intention of Completing Once I Get What’s-Her-Face Out of My Life. When asked if Madonna was contributing to the project, Ritchie’s lolly-headed animus barely conceals contempt for his insufferable wife and her Purim-centric belief system.

[Photo credit: Splash News via Crazy Days and Nights]

• TIFF Interview with Guy Ritchie [Extra]