Via Twitter, the director Guillermo del Toro announced that he had joined Instagram. It's worth noting that this filmmaker already had a verified account.
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“I'm on Instagram under “@gdtreal”, trying to learn how to use it. https://instagram.com/gdtreal/ "Just 1 photo. Follow me if you want/can," Guillermo del Toro tweeted.
In a later tweet, Del Toro revealed that he is trying to recover his original profile. It was in response to the announcer's question Gonzalo Lira Galván that the filmmaker shared what happened: “Someone hijacked that account”, wrote.
In the producer's new account, there is only one photograph in which a reference to Bleak House 1, that is, a room with books and other monsters, among which a large head of Frankenstein.
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A few hours after the announcement of the probable change of profile, Guillermo del Toro has already gathered more than 19 thousand followers on the new account, on the other hand, only follows some profiles, among which are actors Adam Sandler, Reese Witherspoon, Leonardo Dicaprio, Salma Hayek, Anne Hathaway, Johnny Depp, Jack Black and Emma Watson.
He also follows producers, directors and critics like Hideo Kojima, Eric Kohn, James Gunn and Edgar Wright.
A post shared by Guillermo Del Toro (@gdtreal)
Guillermo del Toro mentioned that he's doing his best to get back to his verified account, which already had more than 500,000 followers and 200,000 likes on his single post. "Trying to get my original Instagram back, stay tuned," wrote in English in his second tweet of the day.
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Although it has not been confirmed what type of vulnerability the beloved Mexican filmmaker suffered with his original profile, the people who follow him expressed their concern: “If you can lose your account, we are all lost”, “That's it, teacher!” and “Don’t let the hackers get to you! Write to good old Mark (Zuckerberg).”, were some of the messages of support that could be read on Twitter.
Among the comments on her first post on the second profile, several of her colleagues welcomed her, while her followers were distressed and returned to the verified profile to warn others: “That’s right, this account has been hacked according to GDT’s tweet, please check it carefully.”, commented one Internet user.
In his original profile description, Guillermo del Toro had written “One day I was thin, I swear.” Although for the moment the director of films like The Shape of Water (2017) has not made any update on the status of his first Instagram, the truth is that the account does not seem to have more publications or radical, suspicious or directly harmful changes.
This is the Guillermo del Toro account that was allegedly hijacked:
A post shared by Guillermo del Toro (@realgdt)
After Elon Musk bought Twitter, many people dissatisfied with their new decisions are migrating to other social networks such as Mastodon, so there were those who assured that, in case Guillermo del Toro managed to recover access to his original account, they would only follow him there and would stop or reduce the use of the platform. birdie.
Regarding his professional life, recently the director of Pinocchio (2022) made an important announcement to honor the life of his mother, who He died on October 14, one day before the world premiere of this film.
Through Twitter, Del Toro promised continue for ten more years with the ANIMEXICO scholarship: A scholarship program aimed at Mexican students interested in studying a Master of Arts in Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking.
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