{"id":95474,"date":"2026-01-10T02:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/95474\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T02:14:06","slug":"zohran-mamdani-and-steven-spielberg-privately-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/95474\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani and Steven Spielberg Privately Met"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNew York City mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> and Steven Spielberg<\/a> had a private meeting on Monday at the director\u2019s Central Park West apartment, per The New York Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Times reported on the pair\u2019s pre-dinner meeting on Thursday, which was confirmed by City Hall and Terry Press, Spielberg\u2019s spokeswoman. Press additionally told the outlet Mamdani and Spielberg agreed to keep their meeting private, while Dora Pekec, a spokeswoman for the mayor, declined to comment, aside from sharing that he returned to work after the events.<\/p>\n

\n\tKnowledgable sources tell The Hollywood Reporter the meeting was not initiated by Mamdani or Spielberg but by a third party who wanted the mayor and director to meet with Spielberg now being a full-time New York City resident. (The Times reported that the Jaws director became an official resident of New York on Mamdani\u2019s inauguration day.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSpielberg\u2019s wife, Kate Capshaw, and their son Theo, plus his wife, were present at the meeting, as was Morris Katz, a Mamdani advisor, the the Times additionally outlined. The meeting took place on the first day of Mamdani\u2019s first full week being NYC\u2019s mayor.<\/p>\n

\n\tMamdani was inaugurated on New Year\u2019s Day<\/a>, where he promised a \u201cnew era\u201d during his speech.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously,\u201d he said. \u201cWe may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSpielberg is a well-known Democratic party donor, though the Times noted there are no records of him financially supporting Mamdani\u2019s campaign. The Academy Award-winning director was an avid supporter<\/a> of former President Joe Biden. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Democratic Socialist\u2019s mother, Mira Nair<\/a>, is also a Hollywood filmmaker. She has one Oscar nomination, stemming from 1988\u2019s Salaam Bombay!, which also won the Camera d\u2019Or at Cannes. In a 2025 profile with Nair, THR wrote that her Golden Globe-nominated film Monsoon Wedding is when she \u201cbecame an indie darling.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tNair\u2019s additional credits include The Namesake (2006); The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013); and Queen of Katwe (2016), among others. The director was previously approached to helm Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, though she has said her son, Mamdani, talked her out of directing the project, telling<\/a> her that \u201canyone can direct\u00a0Harry Potter; only you can direct\u00a0The Namesake.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani and Steven Spielberg had a private meeting on Monday at the director\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64,87,44561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-95474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-steven-spielberg","15":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}