This amounted to a stunning rebuke of the president-elect, who had enthusiastically endorsed the legislation and threatened to unseat any Republicans who opposed it.

He had endorsed the proposal ahead of the vote in a post to Truth Social.

In this case, he added, "the scale, the size, the scope and the funding, and the fact that it's being endorsed at such a high level with both prime ministers - that's never been done before".

Dylan himself has endorsed the film, although he had not actually seen it at the time he posted about it last week on X.

After a year in Hollywood's doghouse, the industry broadly endorsed the reforms and stars returned to the event in 2023.