An MCU star recently took to social media to slam Disney over the recent waves of layoffs that affected Marvel employees.
What MCU star has slammed Disney over Marvel’s layoffs?
In a recent post on Instagram, Evangeline Lilly, who played Hope van Dyne/Wasp in the MCU, criticized the company for what she called “disgusting” moves. Earlier this year, layoffs at Disney saw 1,000 employees let go from the company at large. Among the 1,000 were several Marvel visual effect employees, including the surprising layoff of Andy Park, Marvel’s director of visual development. Speaking on Park, Lilly said she couldn’t believe that the people who helped “brought the Marvel Universe to life” were fired.
“I reached out to my good friend Andy Park, who was the genius behind creating the original Wasp super-suit and concept drawings, and I said, ‘Is this true? Is this really what’s happening?’” Lilly said in her video. “He said, ‘Yeah, it’s true, I’ve been let go.’ I can’t quite believe that…that Disney has let go of the artists who brought the Marvel Universe to life through their genius and that the people who invented these characters and who designed them are being replaced by AI. AI that will take their designs and take what they created and use it to create iterations of that. I am so sorry, Andy. I am so sorry to every one of the artists who were let go.
“If you’re a huge fan of Marvel, just take a moment today to think about them, to send up a prayer for them, to honor them, to honor the people who created the world that you fell in love with,” she said. “That was a human invention. These were human creations. And they shouldn’t be stolen by tech giants so that their robots can replicate them.”
In the caption for her video, Lilly took things a step further, and slammed Disney for laying people off to pivot to AI, demanding where laws were to prevent AI from stealing the human’s brilliance.
“Where are the laws that REMOVE all human art from the AI bank?!?” she asked. “Why do they get to steal our brilliance and use it to make executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots go hungry?? Disgusting. California lawmakers…where are you?!?!?”
Lilly also blasted the idea of letting go of tons of staffers for
