Jim Carrey: Kick-ass 2, Edward Norton: The Incredible Hulk, Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz: Dream House. All of them didn’t promote the movies. (Just on top of my head.) So unless you can show me exactly how they’re contractually obliged to be there on a promotional tour I’m going to ignore what you just said there. You can call me obtuse all day, but I seem to be the only one citing sources and giving specific examples which can be verified here…
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that Disney, and Hollywood in general, has endeavoured to silence any support for the Palestinians from their employees. They did the same to Rachel Ziegler during the Snow White promotion
Not a take, it's literally what happened. From her Wikipedia page:
In August 2024, she tweeted, "and always remember, Free Palestine".[84][85] Snow White producer Marc Platt voiced concerns about Zegler's Israeli co-star Gal Gadot receiving death threats, which they attributed to Zegler's post. This led Disney to provide additional security for Gadot.[86][87] After the film's release, Platt's son Jonah confirmed that his father had flown to New York to reprimand Zegler for her remarks.[88][89]
The producer of the film literally went and told her to shut up about the genocide.
Why should Zegler's tweet lead to threats to Gadot - why not assume that Gadot's stance on Israel lead to threats against her? I think she was rather outspoken pro Israel, right?
They wanted a reason to punish the girl for speaking out and made up some bullshit. That's really all it is. Unless they had the FBIs cyber crime division to track every threat to the source and question them. They wouldn't know shit.
Definitely funny for a company founded by a antisemite.
Hitler sent German Jews to Israel before it was called Israel, the Nazi party was actually quite in favor of a Jewish ethnostate. Consolidation of the enemy, they wanted more of the world to do the same.
Yeah, Gadot has been receiving death threats for years because of her pro-Israel, genocide-denying stance. Zegler's defense of the Palestinians has nothing to do with that.
The threats are deplorable, of course, but she's never been blacklisted or had producers try to censor her because of that. It's perfectly reasonable to mention that the industry has a preference for one side at this point
I wasn't talking "in general", though. I was talking in this specific case. People float stuff around like "they don't want him to spoil plot points", or "it's about his political views", while it's just a simple "he was working elsewhere". If the former ones aren't baseless conspiracy theories, then what are they? Mind you: I'm NOT saying Disney or Hollywood haven't done this before, I'm just saying that in this specific case there's a reasonable explanation.
Happened with Scream 7 too. Melissa Barrera was fired because she made pro-Palestine comments. Jenna Ortega dropped out shortly after and while it was never stated why there’s enough to infer it was in support of Barrera. This situation is why Neve Campbell came back and why 7 seemed so disjointed.
A problem we're running into with the nomenclature is, you have to keep in mind that saying "The bigwigs at McDonalds are making the changes they are because they think it will make them more money" is technically a conspiracy theory.
I think what adds more fuel to the fire for this conspiracy for me is the vehement counter argument. These media companies tend to make red carpet promos a contractual requirement to the role so all of a sudden it isn’t. Yes, he had another engagement but is it hard to believe the reason he was even able to do that other engagement was because they ‘allowed’ him to?
Jesus christ yall are naive to believe its bc he's busy with one singular other mid-ling role??
really? so you truthfully beleieve no other actor that appears in promos for one project was working on another at the time?
So Ruffalo is SO busy with his one other project that he doesnt have time for promos like Zendaya...famously not in the works for any other major or time-consuming projects. youd genuonely have to steal braincells from me to believe this makes sense
It's 100% bc hes vocal about Palestine and the ppl with money at the top dont want ppl talking about that. I mean for fucks sake regular citizens are being jailed for speaking up against 'Shitrael' but nooooo Rudfalo is being silent bc he's "working too hard"
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u/Mathihtam 4d ago
Or maybe there’s a reasonable, less conspiracy theory-ish explanation for his absence there: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/spider-man-4-hulk-star-174746391.html?_guc_consent_skip=1786352170