While Gal Gadot has described her experience with director Joss Whedon in the past, she has never gone into the details about what transpired on the set of the 2017 superhero movie.
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Joss Whedon kind of threatened my career, says Gal Gadot
By PTI
LOS ANGELES: “Wonder Woman 194” star Gal Gadot has detailed her experience of working with filmmaker Joss Whedon on the DC movie “Justice League”, saying the director threatened to make her “career miserable”.The Israeli actor, who essays the role of superhero Wonder Woman in the Warner Bros/DC movies, said Whedon told her to “just be pretty” and say her lines.
“He kind of threatened my career and said if I did something, he would make my career miserable, and I just took care of it instead,” Gadot told Israeli news outlet N12.
The clash reportedly happened when the 36-year-old actor pushed back on some new dialogue Whedon had written.
During the exchange, he also allegedly disparaged “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins.
Whedon took over the reins of “Justice League” after director Zack Snyder left the project in the wake of a family tragedy.
In an interview with The Los Angeles Times last year, Gadot had hinted at her troubling experience with Whedon, saying it was resolved privately.
“I had my own experience with (him), which wasn’t the best one, but I took care of it there and when it happened. I took it to the higher-ups and they took care of it. But I’m happy for Ray to go up and say his truth,” she had said.
Whedon’s alleged toxic behaviour towards the cast of TV shows “Angel” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and the film “Justice League” first came to light last year.
Actor Ray Fisher, who played the role of Cyborg in the superhero ensemble film, had claimed in a tweet that Whedon was “abusive” and “unprofessional” on the sets of their 2017 DC movie.
WarnerMedia, the parent company behind the DC movie projects, launched an investigation into the claims made by Fisher.
In December, the company issued a statement saying that it had completed the investigation and taken “remedial action” in the matter.
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Charisma Carpenter accuses Joss Whedon of unprofessional behaviour
By Express News Service
Buffy the Vampire Slayer-fame Charisma Carpenter has tweeted out against Joss Whedon, in support of Ray Fisher. In a two-part tweet posted through her official handle on Wednesday, Carpenter, who worked with Whedon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff series Angel, accused the director of creating “hostile and toxic work environments since his early career,” recalling her own experiences on set with Whedon.She claimed to have gone through the toxicity Whedon spreads during the shoots and accused him of “abusing his power on numerous occasions.” She then went on to list some examples of the alleged abuse, which included “passive-aggressive threats” to fire her, being “mean and disparaging” about others, and “pitting people” against one another.
The actor captioned the tweets “#IStandWithRayFisher,” to show her support for the True Detective actor who has been fighting Whedon in a months-long investigation after he complained that the filmmaker was abusive on the set of the Justice League reshoots.
In her message, Carpenter directly addressed Fisher and claimed to have been part of the investigation against Whedon. “Recently, I participated in WarnerMedia’s Justice League investigation because I believe Ray to be a person of integrity who is telling the truth,” she wrote. “His firing as Cyborg in The Flash was the last straw for me. Although I am not shocked, I am deeply pained by it. It troubles and saddens me that in 2021 professionals STILL have to choose between whistleblowing in the workplace and job security.”