‘Justice League’: Joss Whedon threatened to damage Gal Gadot’s career during ‘reshoots’

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  • The director pressured the actress to record dialogue that she did not like and disparaged Patty Jenkins, director of ‘Wonder Woman

The name of Joss Whedon, director of The Avengers and creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has been making negative headlines for some time. Specifically, the portrait of the director has become that of an abusive person who created toxic work environments during the filming of his projects. All of this became known after Ray Fisher, the actor who played Victor Stone / Cyborg in Justice League, accused Whedon of ” abusive, unprofessional and completely unacceptable” behavior.

The actor and director coincided during the ‘reshoots’ of Justice League, a film in which Whedon was placed behind the cameras after the departure of Zack Snyder from the film. Fisher has shared new details about what happened to the THR medium. The medium has also revealed other events that occurred during filming. For example, Whedon threatened the career of Gal Gadot, the one in charge of giving life to Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, because the actress was not comfortable with some phrases that the director asked her to record.

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Always according to THR, Whedon clashed with the entire Justice League cast. Also with Jeremy Irons, who played Alfred Pennyworth. The aforementioned outlet notes that Gadot was unhappy with Whedon’s deal and complained to then- Warner Bros. president Kevin Tsujihara. The interpreter was concerned with the rewriting carried out by the director, including “problems about his character being more aggressive than his character in Wonder Woman”. In particular,” she wanted the character to flow from one movie to the next. ”

When Whedon pressured the actress to record lines she disagreed with, THR notes that “[he] threatened to damage Gadot’s career and disparaged Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins .” A source has told the outlet that “he told her that he was the writer and for her to shut up and say the lines and that he could make her look incredibly stupid in this movie. ” This ended with Gadot and Jenkins talking to Tsujihara. Gadot, for his part, said in a statement the following: “I had my problems with [Whedon] and Warner Bros. handled it in a timely manner.

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RAY FISHER AND HIS PROBLEMS WITH JOSS WHEDON.

As for what Fisher has told in THR about Whedon’s behavior. One of the conflicts between the actor and the director was the fact that Whedon reduced the role of Cyborg in the story. In addition, as the interpreter points out, when the ‘reshoots’ began, Fisher had to “explain some of the most basic points of what would be offensive to the black community” to Whedon. Also that he tried to provide “notes to avoid problems in terms of the representation of the character.”

Apparently, Fisher “hadn’t even started to speak when the director cut him off,” saying, “It seems like I’m taking notes right now, and I don’t like taking notes from anyone. Not even Robert Downey Jr. ”. Other sources on the project say Whedon was equally dismissive of Gadot and Jason Momoa, Arthur Curry / Aquaman in the film when they questioned their characters’ new lines.

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Fisher took his complaints to Geoff Johns – DC Films’ president and creative director at the time – but was told that they “couldn’t piss off Joss. ” Johns also said it was “problematic that Cyborg smiled only twice in the movie” because senior executives felt they “couldn’t have an angry black man at the center of the movie.”

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These statements and revelations are in addition to those made by Charisma Carpenter, actress of Buffy the Vampire Slayer who also denounced Whedon’s treatment during the filming of the series on social networks. Recently, the director has been removed from the promotion of The Nevers, the HBO fiction of which he is the creator. However, these accusations have made Whedon’s name cease to be linked to this project, which opens on April 12 on the streaming platform.

 

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