The longtime MCU star, who played Hulk since 2012, did not outright call for a boycott, but called out the company’s potentially disastrous financial hit in a Threads message regarding their 7% drop in stocks following the ABC suspension news.
“It’s going to go down a lot further if they cancel his show. Disney does not want to be the ones that broke America,” he wrote on Threads. (Notably, the share prices have begun climbing back up.)
The Emmy-winning Andor writer called out Disney by writing a guest column in Deadline.
“We spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week,” he wrote.
“Disney now stands at a crossroads: terminate Kimmel’s contract and become pavement for the road to a brave new Trumpian world; or stand for the First Amendment and take the onslaught. There’s not much at stake, just free speech, the oxygen that sustains life in this town.”
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