Technician Editor-in-Chief Ty Johnson sat down with Tucker Max shortly after the showing of his film, “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell,” in Witherspoon to discuss protesters, accusations and how successful he felt the tour stop in Raleigh was.

For an interview with actress Keri Lynn Pratt, click here.

For a story on student reactions, click here.

For Tucker Max’s blog post response, click here.

Technician: Did the protest help pump up the movie or hurt it?

Tucker Max: How could it hurt the movie? Especially because the assertions they’re trying to make about the movie and the book are just not true. There’s nothing else to say. It’s like if I called the sky green. It’s just wrong, that’s just all there is to it.

Technician:What about the calls that you’re a misogynist, you’re a sexist, you’re a rapist?

Tucker Max: A misogynist is someone who hates women. I love women. If I didn’t love women I wouldn’t get up in the morning. I wouldn’t do all the things I do–everything I do is to impress women.

And every other claim is either preposterous or just untrue. It’s like if someone called you a Nazi, what would you say? You’d look at them weird. It’s kind of the same thing for me. It doesn’t even apply.

I feel like these people, they have an agenda they want to push and whatever furthers their agenda or they perceive will further their agenda, they’re going to push on whether it aligns with the facts or not.

Technician: What about making the stop in Raleigh?

Tucker Max: It was great. I mean we sold out weeks ago, the crowd loved the movie. We got tons of media attention.

We did a great Q&A and hundreds of people stayed after to get pictures and to get stuff signed.

The point of the premiere tour was to get attention for the movie and to show the movie to the fans, and we did both so it was a huge success.