From Luke of light a Buffy For Marvel in DC, fans of Joss Whedon’s entire generation of film and television work have struggled in recent months to dodge media reports about the alleged indiscretions of the creator / director’s set. Starting with the creation of Whedon Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its television derivation Angel in the 1990s, and went as far as Warner Bros. ‘ Justice League in 2017, both male and female actors have issued a series of public criticisms highlighting their anecdotal accounts of Whedon’s alleged improprieties.
Although neither Whedon nor his management have so far commented on the allegations made against him, a new report a Variety aims to examine Whedon’s controversy from the point of view of various actors and crew members who have worked with him on recent projects and in the past. The resulting report, which again does not cite Whedon as a direct source, suggests a “pattern of inappropriate, imperious, and contemptuous behavior toward those who worked for him,” including a break with Buffy the star Sarah Michelle Gellar, which originates in the early days of small screen of the iconic series.
Gellar was among the 40 actors and crew members known to Whedon who did not want to comment directly. Varietyreport of. But a couple of sources “familiar with the [Buffy] the production says that quite early in the show, Gellar maintained a broken relationship with Whedon, to the point that he didn’t want his name to be talked about around him. “
Buffy premiered on the now-defunct The WB network in 1997, more than 20 years before Cyborg actor Ray Fisher presented the summer of 2020 with strong convictions of what Fisher perceived as “brutal, abusive, little Whedon ‘s “professional, and utterly unacceptable” treatment of the actors on the set Justice League. These observations would end up supporting Fisher by peers Justice League actors, with Jason Momoa giving the most vocal support. But they were also preceded by additional allegations against Whedon of actors he had worked with in Whedon Buffy i Angel days – including recent claims of inadequacy by Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase in both series), as well as Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy‘s Dawn Summers).
Trachtenberg recently posted on Instagram a statement that “There was a rule” in the Buffy established that Whedon “was not allowed in a single room with Michelle [Trachtenberg] again. “And Carpenter went public earlier this month with a couple from Twitter publications claiming that Whedon “abused his power on numerous occasions while working together in the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer i Angel. ”Carpenter accused Whedon of convincing actors to compete for his attention and to make derogatory comments about his own pregnancy at the time, including how it could negatively affect his future on the series.
”The person who worked closely with Carpenter while performing Buffy i Angel recalls that the actor frequently described Whedon as “grumpy” and “verbally abusive” towards her, “he reports. Variety“Making it clear to her that she had favorites – and she wasn’t one of them.” That was her game, “the source told the dam.
Specifications related to any alleged Whedon-Gellar interaction that may have led to your notification Buffy the fracture is not mentioned in VarietyThe report, although Gellar’s recent observations on social media suggest that she is sympathetic to other actors and her complaints focused on Whedon. “While I’m proud to associate my name with Buffy Summers, I don’t want it to be associated forever with the name Joss Whedon,” Gellar said recently in an Instagram post, reacting to Carpenter’s allegations.
Sources of VarietyThe report suggested that Buffy’s low-budget filming environment, far removed from daily studio oversight and populated by many relatively inexperienced young actors, may have provided the kind of environment that helped foster social dynamics. unprofessional, “secondary.” between his talented cast and his creative protagonist.
According to reports, it would operate “similarly to an indie film,” the Buffy it allegedly functioned “like high school, with Whedon making everyone aware of who was there and who was out,” according to Variety. The same sources, all speaking anonymously, described the culture of both Buffy i Angel as “a cult of personality” centered around Whedon: “Those inside Whedon’s circle took attention, praise, and friendship; outsiders had the opposite: contempt, mockery and insensitivity, ”the report states.
Whedon’s creative resume is the subject of film and television legend, which includes small-screened treasures of revered perennial science fiction, such as Luke of light, Buffy, i Angel. On the big screen, Whedon helped build Marvel’s MCU as a box office director The Avengers (2012) i Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), before entering a late management role at Warner Bros. ‘ Justice League after director Zack Snyder left the project due to a family tragedy.
More recently, Whedon embarked and later departed Els Nevers, a supernatural science fiction drama in which Whedon and HBO collaborated. Announced in 2018, Els Nevers he originally positioned Whedon’s creative talents as a writer, director, executive producer and showrunner. In November last year, however, HBO revealed that Whedon had abandoned the project. Els Nevers is still on its way to debuting on April 11 on HBO, with Philippa Goslett replacing Whedon as showrunner.
Amid the still controversial controversy surrounding other actors’ allegations against Whedon, Casey Bloys, head of HBO’s Content Office, told The Wrap earlier this month that the network had not received “any Whedon ‘s complaint and no report of misconduct during his truncated creative period with Els Nevers.