Louis Theroux has brutal response for Andrew Tate after he refuses to be in new documentary

Documentarian Louis Theroux's latest work has hit the air, and it's all about exploring what's known online as the 'manosphere'.

Fittingly titled Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere, the British American journalist speaks to several social media figures known for their influence on boys and adolescents to get a better understanding of their beliefs and views on society.

Having spoken to religious extremists and neo-Nazis in the past, Theroux is now looking to understand what many believe to be the inspiration behind hit TV series' such as Adolescence.

Speaking to Tudum, he said: “The manosphere describes a group of almost exclusively male influencers who provide content about fitness, business, and self-improvement.”

Theroux adds that the influencers he spoke to were 'relatively mainstream', saying: "Many of them are relatively mainstream, but at the edge is a community of figures whose views are much more extreme, and that’s the focus of the documentary."

But one man is missing from the documentary altogether - Andrew Tate.

The BAFTA-winning filmmaker acknowledged this, and spoke about trying to get both him and his brother, Tristan, to appear in the documentary.

Theroux spoke of the former professional kickboxer on The Romesh Ranganathan Show, explaining: "Obviously, the biggest guy in that whole manosphere community is Andrew Tate and over the year of filming I was messaging Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate quite a lot back and forth."

He claimed that the former would only appear on camera if he was getting paid, to which Theroux said he wouldn't.

"He said, well, why would I talk to you? You're not relevant anymore," the journalist recounted.

Theroux then revealed: "Then he sent me a Google graph, and they show how much you've been Googled over four or five years. He goes like 'I'm blue you're red' - I was barely registering."

Hilariously though, the 55-year-old revealed: "At the very end, I don't know if he had some weird glitch, my line went above his. So I screenshotted and circled that and I said, I''m literally more relevant than you are.' I felt pretty gangster."

Speaking about the doc, Theroux says that manosphere content eventually 'turns misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic, and racist', explaining: "Anyone who’s got kids, and especially boys, will know that they are making inroads into the culture. Their influence is being felt in schools, in the workplace, and all across the internet."

In an interview with Tudum, Theroux said that the success of the industry is partly down to 'a lot of lonely men out there', as podcasts about the subject often speak about the masculinity crisis.

Theroux spoke to influencers such as HStikkytokky in the documentary (Netflix)

"I think a lot of boys and men are lost, and when they see easy answers, when they see a muscular guy who seems to be very rich, telling them it’s not their fault and here’s who’s to blame," he claimed.

When asked about the effects of unprocessed trauma for some of the men he interviewed, whether it be abuse or absent fathers, he explained: "What they’re doing is evangelizing an outlook they’ve created as a survival strategy for themselves.

"If you’ve grown up in something horrific and have created a suit of armor or a set of tools to cope, then when you come out the other side you’ll value that."

He attributed that 'warrior ethos' to factors like that, acknowledging: "I’ve been the beneficiary of a happy, loving upbringing, and I’m going to blandly announce that it’s not you against the world - rather, we’re all in it together.

"That sort of mindset of 'no-one’s going to help you, and you can’t trust anyone', is not really reflective of the world that most of us live in, nor would want to live in."

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere is out now on Netflix.