Ugh. Gross.
18.01.2022 - 04:35 / perezhilton.com
Well, there’s breaking your silence and then there’s breaking your silence. Wow.
Joss Whedon has been accused of abusive, bullying behavior by various cast members across multiple projects over the past year or so, and throughout it all it seemed the usually wordy writer was keen to keep his head down and avoid any press on the situation.
But it turns out he was just biding his time and waiting to hit back if his new profile in New York magazine is anything to go on. Over the course of the bombshell interview, the Avengers director responds to almost every allegation, and it isn’t to apologize one-by-one.
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The accusations that opened the floodgates were made by Ray Fisher, the actor who played Cyborg in the Justice League movie.
Whedon was hired to take over after director Zack Snyder‘s family tragedy caused him to have to leave the project. (At least, that was the public story — more recently Snyder has implied the film was taken away from him due to studio worries, which makes sense considering they had one of the architects of the Marvel Cinematic Universe come in and reshoot a ton of it.)
Three years after the movie came out, Fisher took back all the positive words he had said at the time about Whedon’s direction and took to Twitter to accuse him of “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” behavior. He also blasted the higher-ups at Warner Bros.
While Whedon said none of Fisher’s claims were “either true or merited discussing” he did specifically respond to the implication that he was racist in having lightened the skin tone of Fisher and other actors of color, calling that accusation “false and unjust.” The filmmaker
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel, had previously claimed Whedon called her “fat” when she was four months pregnant.Speaking about Carpenter in an interview with Vulture, Whedon said: “Most of my experiences with Charisma were delightful and charming. She struggled sometimes with her lines, but nobody could hit a punch line harder than her.
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Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticBy the time New York Magazine published its thorough and extremely damning new piece on how Joss Whedon and his entertainment empire fell apart, I couldn’t summon much more than an exhausted sigh. After years of loving his work, followed by years of reconsidering everything I knew about it within the context of the serious allegations against him, Whedon’s downfall in my own world was so swift and complete that I couldn’t stomach the idea of reopening that door at all.Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is the reason I first started thinking critically about television.
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Joss Whedon has responded to claims of poor behavior lobbied against him by several "Justice League" stars. The filmmaker took over production of the 2017 superhero flick when director Zack Snyder had to step away for a family emergency. In the summer of 2020, Ray Fisher, who played the superhero Cyborg in the film, claimed that Whedon was "abusive" and "unprofessional" while working on the film.
Joss Whedon’s response to allegations of sexual misconduct and verbal abuse on the set of both the famed 90s sci-fi show and the 2017 DC comics blockbuster in an interview with New York Magazine. Whedon addressed claims of mistreatment by Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg in “Justice League” but who saw his role in Whedon’s version severely reduced.
told New York Magazine of his reasoning as to why negative descriptions of his behavior on the sets of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff “Angel” weren’t fully factual and his intentions not malicious.“I don’t believe that,” he added, shaking his head, in response to a costume designer’s accusation that he’d grabbed her arm. “I know I would get angry, but I was never physical with people.”He also denied an allegation from a “high-level member of the ‘Buffy’ production team” that he reportedly once made out with an actress on the floor of an office.“That seems false.
The “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” creator gave his unfiltered thoughts in a bombshell profile in New York Magazine.Whedon, 57, claimed in the interview that people used “every weaponizable word of the modern era to make it seem like I was an abusive monster.”“I think I’m one of the nicer showrunners that’s ever been,” he added.Gadot, 36, who played Wonder Woman in “Justice League,” alleged in October that Whedon “threatened” her career during the DC flick’s 40-day reshoots.However, the “Avengers” director denied the accusations in the recent article. “I don’t threaten people.