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James Gunn berättar om hur det var att få kicken av Disney

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Vi vet ju alla vad som hände när James Gunns gamla Twitter-inlägg grävdes fram under 2018: Gunns gamla skämt, som ansågs vara kränkande, fick filmskaparen sparkad av Disney och förlorade därmed gigget till Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3. Disney förlät dock honom till slut och gav honom jobbet tillbaka, men inte utan viss ångest. Gunn trodde nämligen att hans karriär var över i en intervju med New York Times:

"It was conveyed to me by Kevin Feige [the Marvel Studios president]. I called Kevin the morning it was going on, and I said, 'Is this a big deal?' And he goes, 'I don't know.' That was a moment. I was like, 'You don't know?' I was surprised. Later he called me — he himself was in shock — and told me what the powers that be had decided. It was unbelievable. And for a day, it seemed like everything was gone. Everything was gone. I was going to have to sell my house. I was never going to be able to work again. That's what it felt like."

Han reflekterade också över vad han har lärt sig om sig själv:

"I'm more considerate of people's feelings today. I had talked about this a lot before those tweets were [resurfaced]. They are awful things, that's what my sense of humor was back then. But before this ever happened, I realized that I had closed myself off to things I thought were schmaltzy because I didn't want to be vulnerable. This attitude — I can make a joke about anything, look how great I am — that's just not the fullness of me as a human being. And I learned that long before I got called out for the tweets."

Han var dock inte helt emot cancelkulturen som råder idag, då det kan drabba personer som Harvey Weinstein:

"I understand people's preoccupation with that term. But it's such a bigger issue than that. Because cancel culture also is people like Harvey Weinstein, who should be canceled. People who have gotten canceled and then remain canceled — most of those people deserved that. The paparazzi are not just the people on the streets — they're the people combing Twitter for any past sins. All of that sucks. It's painful. But some of it is accountability. And that part of it is good. It's just about finding that balance."

Guardians of the Galaxy återvänder den femte maj 2023. Hur ser din syn ut på cancelkultur och det som hände Gunn?

James Gunn berättar om hur det var att få kicken av Disney
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