It’s interesting what Disney finds acceptable and not acceptable, filming near a genocide site for Mulan and then thanking the people who did it? All good! Hiring actors with serious SA allegations? All good! Say something controversial? Cancelled and blacklisted!
In Disney's defense on Leto, and lets not get off into things that are not supposed to be talked about here, most of this came out after he was already contracted for the projected. And its very likely he had a pay or play contract which would means they would have to pay him anyways. So I'm sure they hoped they could manage any fall out from it in the short term.
Likely true but I suspect it would have cost them less in the long run to reshoot his scenes than they lost in sales.
Also we all should be supporting a movie IP that was home grown at Disney and not acquired.
However that would have likely doubled the budget, as not to give much away of the movie he is in at least half the movie. I mean he is the Ares of Tron: Ares after all. Plus he still would have been paid anyways.
True, and from what I understand it was actually Leto himself who push to get this project greenlit anyways. He would have been tied to it no matter what.
Not quite. His sexual misconduct was publicly reported in 2022.
The point is that while reported on previously it was still mostly out of the public consciousness, I don't believe it hit a crescendo until this year.
I think it's less about public perception and more about Disney's decision-making. With such rumours flying around several years ago, they shouldn't have hired him.
As stated above though, Leto is who got the project off the ground in the first place back with Disney in 2017. He likely had it in his contract when they began working on the project back in 2017 that he would be paid whether it was made or not, ie a pay or play contract. So Disney didn't "hire" him just a couple year ago, it was contracted for this back in 2017.
OK, but the allegations were already out there even then.
www.sheknows.com
Frankly, I think the situations are quite different. The available evidence to support the Jared Leto allegations are weak to non-existent whereas the Ezra Miller situation had moved beyond mere allegations to demonstrable facts.
That's fair, but Disney would do well to tread carefully in such matters.
Look I'm not defending the guys actions, and maybe Disney should have done a deeper dive into him and that may have turned up things. But at the time that article you posted doesn't indicate anything about any of the subsequent allegations. Being a "creep" on-set doesn't equate to what was alleged as he is known to go full method, which was even acknowledged in the article.OK, but the allegations were already out there even then.
One Suicide Squad actress alleges Jared Leto got a little too close for comfort
Jared Leto accused of potential sexual harassment on the 'Suicide Squad' set.
I have no interest in the actor or the film under discussion. I'm just weighing in on the question of Disney's judgement in this matter. I'm not saying they did anything terrible by hiring him when they did, but there were, it seems, enough warning signs out there that they might have rethought the collaboration at some point before the project had gone too far.
His allegations go back to the early 2000s, he’s been known as a creep who likes young girls as long as he’s been famous.OK, but the allegations were already out there even then.
One Suicide Squad actress alleges Jared Leto got a little too close for comfort
Jared Leto accused of potential sexual harassment on the 'Suicide Squad' set.
Unfortunately if you were to look for "warning signs" you basically would have to stop any production coming out of Hollywood. Actors are a weird bunch, and if you look hard enough you can find something that someone finds questionable with everyone.
This is a logical fallacy. There are plenty of actors who don't have such skeletons in their closet.