{"id":431045,"date":"2026-05-16T20:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:37:15","slug":"mark-ruffalo-thinks-hes-on-a-list-of-paramounts-banned-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431045\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ruffalo Thinks He’s ‘On a List’ of Paramount’s Banned Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMark Ruffalo<\/a> said during a recent appearance on the \u201cI\u2019ve Had It<\/a>\u201d podcast that he thinks he\u2019s \u201calready on a list\u201d of Paramount<\/a>-Skydance\u2019s banned stars because he\u2019s been so vocally opposed to the studio\u2019s acquisition of Warner Bros.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m doing this because I know we have to,\u201d Ruffalo said. \u201cAnd I know no matter what, if I don\u2019t speak out, it\u2019s the same outcome. I\u2019m already on a list. I\u2019m already not a friend of these people. And so you\u2019re either going to fight, or you\u2019re going to lie down. But the same outcome will be if you don\u2019t [fight], if you lay down. That\u2019s the way it is with every bully in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking about his open letter condemning the Paramount-Warner Bros.<\/a> merger, Ruffalo said that \u201ca lot of people, off the bat, were afraid to sign it.\u201d He added, \u201cThey\u2019re afraid because, to quote one prominent agent whose name I won\u2019t divulge here, these are some vindictive motherfuckers, the Ellisons.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough there was an initial hesitation, Ruffalo explained that more Hollywood players \u201chave already started to change and come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat we know is that courage is contagious, and there\u2019s safety in numbers,\u201d Ruffalo said. \u201cA lot of the people on this letter are people who either can afford to be there, like myself, or people who can\u2019t afford to not be there. They\u2019re fighting for their lives. The stakes are very, very high. They understand what happens when these mergers happen. The last one was Fox-Disney, and we lost so many jobs, we lost so many shows, we so many films that were in production or in pre-production or being developed, and we know the writing\u2019s on the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRuffalo released his open letter in April, and then in May, he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times<\/a>, rallying people to fight against Paramount-Skydance\u2019s pursuit of Warner Bros. In the op-ed, he also noted that actors and filmmakers were afraid that Paramount-Skydance would retaliate if they took a stand against them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe most revealing thing about that letter wasn\u2019t the people who signed. It was the people who didn\u2019t. Not because they disagreed \u2014 because they were afraid,\u201d Ruffalo wrote. \u201cThere are many reasons to block this deal, but we now believe the most fundamental one is what we encountered when asking artists to use their voices: fear. A deep, ugly and pervasive fear of speaking out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Ruffalo said during a recent appearance on the \u201cI\u2019ve Had It\u201d podcast that he thinks he\u2019s \u201calready…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,5691,111,139,69,421,5942],"class_list":["post-431045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-mark-ruffalo","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-paramount","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}