{"id":1222121,"date":"2022-01-18T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222121"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:53:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:53:13","slug":"director-joss-whedon-breaks-silence-about-film-set-abuse-allegations-waves-them-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/director-joss-whedon-breaks-silence-about-film-set-abuse-allegations-waves-them-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Joss Whedon Breaks Silence About Film Set Abuse Allegations, Waves Them Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdirector-joss-whedon-breaks-silence-about-film-set-abuse-allegations-waves-them-off%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222121&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Embattled Hollywood producer-director Joss Whedon has finally spoken out about multiple allegations that he mistreats cast and crew members on film sets, only to wave the accusations off as misunderstandings.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wonder Woman<\/i> star Gal Gadot, for instance, claimed that during the filing of <i>Justice League<\/i>, Whedon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/05\/10\/actress-gal-gadot-says-director-joss-whedon-threatened-her-career-on-justice-league-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened<\/a> to destroy her career if she didn\u2019t do what he wanted her to do on set. But in a long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/joss-whedon-allegations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a> published by <i>New York<\/i> magazine, Whedon insisted that it was all just a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEnglish is not her first language, and I tend to be annoyingly flowery in my speech,\u201d Whedon told the magazine about Gadot\u2019s accusations. He continued saying that he had made a joke to Gadot saying that she would have to tie him to a train track to get hm to cut a scene she wanted removed from the film. \u201cThen I was told that I had said something about her dead body and tying her to the railroad track,\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Gadot disputes this interpretation of their exchange. \u201cI understood perfectly,\u201d she said of Whedon\u2019s words.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19534770\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MCDJULE_EC036.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19534770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/MCDJULE_EC036.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1027\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Gal Gadot in Justice League\/Warner Bros.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <em>Wonder Woman<\/em> star is not the only actor to accusing Whedon of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>A host of big names in sci-fi and superhero movies and TV have come forward accusing Whedon of fostering a hostile and unprofessional workplace, and for being an abusive boss. Cast members from 2017\u2019s <i>Justice League<\/i>, including Gadot, Jason Mamoa, and Ray Fisher, are only the latest to accuse Whedon of abuse. The stars of Whedon\u2019s hit TV series, <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>, and its spin-off <em>Angel<\/em>, have also spent years making similar allegations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19534898\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP17203762712053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19534898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP17203762712053.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1208\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Jason Momoa, right, speaks as Ray Fisher reacts at the Warner Bros. \u201cJustice League\u201d panel on day three of Comic-Con International on Saturday, July 22, 2017, in San Diego. (Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whedon, though, has remained quiet about the many accusations since Ray Fisher began his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/10\/30\/justice-league-star-ray-fisher-warner-bros-executives-engaged-in-blatantly-racist-conversations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push<\/a> nearly two years ago to have Whedon\u2019s actions investigated by Warners.<\/p>\n<p>Whedon is speaking up about Fisher, too, calling him a terrible actor and a \u201cmalevolent force.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about a malevolent force,\u201d Whedon said of the Cyborg star. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a bad actor in both senses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whedon said he cut much of Ray Fisher\u2019s part from <em>Justice League<\/em> because it \u201clogically made no sense\u201d to leave it in. He also claimed that he spent hours explaining the cuts to Fisher and their discussions were cordial at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Whedon did make a half-hearted apology to the casts of his TV shows <i>Buffy<\/i> and <i>Angel<\/i>, saying, \u201cI was young,\u201d and \u201cI yelled, and sometimes you had to yell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this is a serious fall from grace after his self-appointed status as a progressive Hollywood powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Avengers&nbsp;<\/em>director&nbsp;spent years doling out social media posts attacking Republicans; he openly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2018\/04\/04\/joss-whedon-wishes-trumps-death-relief-hate-sadness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wished<\/a> for Donald Trump\u2019s death, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2017\/08\/21\/feminist-icon-joss-whedon-ex-wife-calls-out-hypocrisy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> himself a strong \u201cfeminist.\u201d His manufactured leftist reputation began taking a major hit after his wife accused him of abuse in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It was one thing to have an ex-wife accuse you of abuse \u2014 some have waved that off as sour grapes \u2014 but his ex-wife Kai Cole\u2019s accusations took on more weight when a long list of actors began coming out and detailing their personal experiences with Whedon as an abusive boss.<\/p>\n<p>Since the stars of his most popular productions have come out with their charges of abuse, Whedon has been a pariah in the business, but until now he has remained studiously quiet about it all. Whedon said in his <i>New York<\/i> magazine profile that he has spent the last two years in silence because he is in \u201ctherapy\u201d for \u201cpost-traumatic stress disorder\u201d due to a damaging childhood. Only time will tell if this explanation will satisfy his critics.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Hollywood producer-director Joss Whedon has finally spoken out about multiple allegations that he mistreats cast and crew members on film sets, only to wave the accusations off as misunderstandings. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}