This is all about a director who isn't very well known and wants to promote his latest movie.
He bought two seats, so he cannot complain when Southwest objects to him occupying one seat. If his reasoning was sound when he decided to buy two seats, how can it suddenly become unsound when Southwest also decides that he needs two seats?
The safety concerns that arise with obese passengers are entirely legitimate. There are problems with mobility and potential evacuations, not to mention that obese passengers make the aircraft heavier than it is calculated to be (because airlines these days don't actually weigh passengers and instead depend on an "average" weight for reasons of political correctness), and a too-heavy airplane is dangerous. Requiring two seats reduces the mobility issue, and if the passenger is counted as two people for weight and balance purposes, the W&B calculations (upon which safety depends) are more accurate.
I'd rather be alive than be politically correct or pander to a celebrity, so safety always wins, and so does any airline that gives safety priority.
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