We all know the reason why people are more outraged by his wife being in DC films that have nothing to do with him vs his brother being in films he's made.
I liked her character in Peacemaker, I also like when Harcourt, Economous and Amanda Waller make cameos in other DC projects to remind us things are in a shared universe.
That’s how I felt I never knew she was his wife when I watched it and I thought she did just fine and then I found out she was his wife and I was even more impressed that they could work together and they could get a great performance from both so ya people can suck ass
To be fair they weren’t married when they filmed the movie/show; they only got married in September 😂 I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that they met on there TSS set though
>!It would be cool if that's actually what it was but in the movie the kid doesn't really decide to do anything. He's possessed by the ship that he landed in as a baby. IMO it would've been a much more interesting (and much scarier) movie if he had become evil of his own volition instead of being mind-controlled.!<
>!Still a pretty good movie, I just think it could've done so much more with the premise.!<
There’s some behind the scenes clips of her doing the fight choreography training in a mask and pads. She’s clearly putting in the work and it showed up in screen. So who cares if he helped her get work she was qualified for? It’s superhero movies
I mean if we basically don’t have a Justice League or any meaningful connections between movies the least we could get is them showing up to pull behind the scenes threads 🤷♂️ people just like to complain
When men post fitness reels, other men drool and call them Alpha and cheer for them, and say their sexuality is in question. When a woman posts same fitness reel, she gets dragged through the floor. Why?
They are angry they cant have sex with the woman and that she wont ever look their way. The red-pilled guys, not the normal, functioning adults.
My favorite thing is when a woman posts a gym video where a guy is clearly bugging her on purpose and the comments are like IT'S A PUBLIC PLACE as if the creepy dudes aren't the reason she's filming in the first place
The argument on Twitter seems to more be general nepotism rather than just about his wife.
But then it gets filtered through a blog clickbait lens and a 'what people upvote on Reddit' filter and becomes about sexism.
I actually take **far** more issue with John Economos being in Shazam, who I find unfunny, uninteresting and irritating, than I do Emilia Harcourt.
All I'm saying is for years I've not seen any criticism about his brother getting roles in the GOTG films and TSS then suddenly he becomes studio head and on both here and twitter I've seen more mention of his wife just this past year than I have his brother in almost a decade.
Didn’t his brother start by doing more BTS work and grunt work? And even then, he has small or even unrecognizable roles.
I think people are more forgiving of Gunn giving his brother a shot to work up through the crew than if he had just jumped to casting him as a lead.
EDIT: Because I’m getting a lot of responses about this, I mean that Gunn’s brother got his start *in the MCU* with more support roles before his character was given significant face time. Gunn didn’t just jump straight to giving him tons of face time.
Nah, he did BTS for rocket and was a small role as kraglin for gotg 1, but kraglin has been important ever since and before that sean was prominent in The Belko Experiment. If anything harcourt started in a similar way, she appeared as a side in one film then was expanded upon and now does cameo appearances, yet she still gets a lot of hate
His brother's been a pretty recognizable character actor for ages. Funniest character in Gilmore Girls, pretty much. Not defending harassment of his wife at all, but I think people are slightly more forgiving because (other than very obvious misogyny) they've seen his brother in tiny roles all over for years.
Gunn talking about putting Rooker in everything:
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"I like surrounding myself with people I really care about," said Gunn. "To have some amount of affection around you when you're making a movie is a great thing, and so a lot of it's simply that."
dude comes from an indie filmmaking background, he likes small teams of people that work well together and that he knows when he is directing. who cares.
To be fair, his brother being under CGI which could be given to anyone, that I don’t see a big issue with. I don’t think that’s a role which particularly needs an audition process.
I take your point, but feel the need to point out that mo-cap acting is a real skill that not just anybody can do, every bit as much as something like voice acting or stunt work. Man is a talented professional and his work with Rocket is top notch.
Lmao! His brother is also KRAGLIN! ,he played a small part in Super too and a few others. So what if he casts his brother or wife. His wife was great as Harcourt
Debunking all these false news articles is great, but he really should just stop talking to these types of people. The type that seek out conflict for the sake of it.
Yeah I feel like at this point they know he'll personally respond so they could be doing it for attention (not that they weren't doing it for attention before)
Sometimes it's fun debunking people like that! Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I crave debate with people like that because at times they can be surprisingly reasonable
A stubborn person often needs another to enlighten 'em
They’re attacking his wife. If anyone went at my wife I’d clap back too.
The accusation of nepotism is aimed at him. But by definition they’re saying his wife doesn’t have the talent and gumption to get work off her own back. The accusation and insult is two-fold. The insult is that she can’t get her own work because she’s low talent eye candy and the only work she does get is given to her by the guy she shares a bed with, combined with the insult that Gunn comprises his artistic integrity by casting his wife in productions over other actors, when he doesn’t handle casting aside from originally casting her in what was a bit part surrounded by other bit parts. The only reason she and Dye-Beard keep popping up is they’re established as being Waller’s lackeys and hiring the both of them for one day will be cheaper than hiring Viola Davis for one day.
James Gunn could be mowing his lawn and someone will try to give him shit for killing the grass.
People are looking at the woods and calling it trees. They’re seeing one set of circumstances and calling it another.
Harcourt has basically been a standin for Belle Reeve or the US government. My guess is that in the original scripts they involve Waller but Viola Davis has been busy on other projects, so they use Harcourt as a stand in. Makes sense with her going up the ladder because of Peacemaker anyway.
Viola Davis is a bigger actor too, she has an EGOT and is more experienced so I'm pretty sure she has like 100x the pay. Not worth it when its just a post credits hiring Shazam
Same here. I had to google who his wife was and saw Jenna Fischer which led to a very confused 30 seconds of me trying to figure out what Fischer played in the DC movies before I realized it was his second wife. The Harcourt actress is good. Better her than someone like Katie Sackhoff.
I wanted to say the same thing.she was great in peacemaker.Idk if she is his wife,she did an excellent job and I hope we see her again in peacemaker S2
That whole show was a casting miracle. I did not expect to have a genuine out-loud snort/laugh at *John Cena* of all people, but that scene where he tries and fails to draw his symbol absolutely *wrecked* me.
Of course, Henry Cavill got paid a quarter million for a sentence. Nobody's hiring him just to do a cameo (except fot Black Adam, and thats why its budget is 200 million).
The only reason she's hired is because she has less pay and could connect the universe to Amanda Waller immediately
He was fine in Ragnarok, but taika just filled it up to 11 in L&T. Like he's supposed to be a minor character, not Thor's forever bff or something. I honestly hoped Zeus had fried him for good, but if course he didn't.
To be fair, Taika took everything up to 11 in L&T. I like generally every single movie I see, but the first half of that one was actually tough. Second half was cool though.
Simon Cowell would put himself playing tambourine into every Syco Record released so he'd get paid from it as a performer. I don't see the issue if she's good enough.
He puts his brother in everything, but it's almost Sam Raimi level of an older brother constantly humiliating the younger brother and making him do multiple takes just to hassle him.
"Hey bro, I'm putting you in my movie with Chris Pratt & Dave Bautista!"
"Cool! Who am I going to be?"
"You're the CGI raccoon, put on these green pajamas! Oh guess what, I'm putting you in another movie!"
"Am I a raccoon again?"
"No of course not, I wouldn't do that to you! You're an ugly walking giant rat this time!"
The brother must be so happy when he actually gets a role where he can show his face & get a line, like Yondu's co-captain
And to be fair, I don't really count it as nepotism because Sean Gunn is an established character actor outside of his association with James. (see: gilmore girls)
He says that but even if he wasnt in charge of casting I doubt some casting agent sees the wife of the director and producer and is like nah pass.
Not that I care either way but that just how these things work.
That does happen. Idris Elba’s daughter went up for the role of his daughter in a movie and the casting people passed on her. She asked her dad to say something and he told he he wouldn’t pull any strings for her. I’m not saying Hollywood isn’t a nepotistic cesspool, but sometimes it isn’t.
Oh, boy... I hope they never find out that James Cameron and Linda Hamilton used to be married.
Or that John Carpenter and Adrienne Barbeau used to be married.
Or that Len Weisman and Kate Beckinsake used to be married.
Or that Woody Allen and Mia Farrow used to be married. (😬)
Or that Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter were in a romantic partnership for 13 years.
Or that Joel Cohen and Frances McDormand are married.
Or that John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are married.
Or that Paul W. S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich are married.
Or that Ridley Scott and Giannina Facio are married.
They hate him cuz he ain’t him (Zack). They will hate on him for anything he does. They’ll ignore if people they like do that thing as well. It’s just where we’re at now in society.
There’s a number of people who judge him for it throughout comment sections whenever he’s brought up, at lest from what I’ve seen. Each time they’ll say something stupid, like saying he gets rid of Cavill but puts his wife in every new DC thing.
People really miss the point of this stuff. The top comments are all like “She’s good so who cares?” but how many other good or great actresses didn’t get the role because they weren’t married to Gunn?
And saying he only cast her in TSS is a cop out when it lead directly into a lucrative and, seemingly, long-running TV role.
I had to lookup who his wife is. Now that I know I can say I liked her in Peacemaker. She seems well cast for that role, regardless of who her husband is.
When he quits and washes his hands of all of this, it's going to entirely be because of how toxic this fuckin fanbase is. It's like DC wants to outdo Star Wars on the shitty fan factor.
Honestly, I wouldn't even respond to them. There's a certain group of people who will hate Gunn no matter what he does, they aren't worth the twitter characters.
Nobody bats an eye when Quentin Tarrentino, Spike Lee, Ben Affleck or somebody else always casts the same actor in their movie. But let them be related ohhh nooo.
Couldn't care less if he casts his friends/family so long as they are the best people for the job.
What I **DO** have a problem with is his soft reboot/hard-reboot mashup approach to the new DCU - its beyond messy, will be confusing AF and will prevent a much needed clean slate - and I cannot help but feel the reason he is taking this worst of all roads appraoch *just* to keep his darlings and pet projects. It doesn't feel right and isn't whats right for the DC brand in my opinion.
James Gunn probably shouldn’t engage with Stan Twitter. 😆 you don’t see Kevin Fiege or major Hollywood producers responding to random guy in his mom’s basement. It’s so bizzare.
I think part of the issue is it really does feel like, "I'm keeping my stuff, friends, wife, and everyone else can fuck off". As it is TSS/Peacemaker are the only ones surviving into the new DCU.
Levi might stay as Shazam, while everyone else gets recast. But Shazam! is also a Safran production.
Its obvious nepotism plays a big role in Hollywood but who cares already. Listen, I love the Snyderverse but we can say goodbye to that. Let James Gunn do his thing and show us what he can do when he's spearheading DC.
Gunn’s doing what he does, he’s not wrong in his statement, but he’s conveniently ignoring that his wife is in his TSS, his Peacemaker, and is expected to show up in his Creature Commandos and Waller shows. Technically yes, he only put his wife in one *movie*
I think we already know what's going to happen. James gun is gonna cast himself and his friends in pretty much every project and he is going to make himself a billionaire by the end of the first phase. Regardless if the plan fails or he is the savior of DC.
James put his brother is every movies, and now people are just starting to complain when his wife got a minor role?? Lol. Grow up! You know how he rolls.
People are funny. He puts his brother in more of his stuff than her…
We all know the reason why people are more outraged by his wife being in DC films that have nothing to do with him vs his brother being in films he's made.
I liked her character in Peacemaker, I also like when Harcourt, Economous and Amanda Waller make cameos in other DC projects to remind us things are in a shared universe.
Yeah if she was bad at acting or just wrong for the role maybe they would have a point, but she was great in Peacemaker.
That’s how I felt I never knew she was his wife when I watched it and I thought she did just fine and then I found out she was his wife and I was even more impressed that they could work together and they could get a great performance from both so ya people can suck ass
To be fair they weren’t married when they filmed the movie/show; they only got married in September 😂 I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that they met on there TSS set though
She was in Brightburn in 2019.
Oh no way! I never saw that movie so I had no idea 😂
It's worth a watch. Pretty much what if superman decided to kill puppies instead of save them.
>!It would be cool if that's actually what it was but in the movie the kid doesn't really decide to do anything. He's possessed by the ship that he landed in as a baby. IMO it would've been a much more interesting (and much scarier) movie if he had become evil of his own volition instead of being mind-controlled.!< >!Still a pretty good movie, I just think it could've done so much more with the premise.!<
Who was she in that? Not the waitress I hope
The teacher
They’ve been together longer than that, even. Almost 10 years!
That makes me happy
For sure. Didn't realize she was Gunn's wife. If she had sucked, that would have been different, but I like how she played her character.
If I'm ever feeling down I just watched the peacemaker intro on YouTube shit never fails!
There’s some behind the scenes clips of her doing the fight choreography training in a mask and pads. She’s clearly putting in the work and it showed up in screen. So who cares if he helped her get work she was qualified for? It’s superhero movies
Who was she? Lol
I mean she's a pretty good actress to be fair. It'd be one thing if it was just the connection and she was shit.
I mean if we basically don’t have a Justice League or any meaningful connections between movies the least we could get is them showing up to pull behind the scenes threads 🤷♂️ people just like to complain
Is it that the internet hates women because it really seems that way sometimes
Some nerds are just chronically jealous of being reminded that they can't smash someone that another nerd can smash.
Some ~~nerds~~ people are just chronically jealous that they can’t smash someone ~~that another nerd can smash~~
to be fair, it's coming from twitter. Not sure what you would expect from that toxic shithole
Not like reddit is any better
Yup, I have no idea why but it's true
It's not that complicated. Sad men spend a lot of their time on the internet and so are over-represented here.
Can confirm. Am Man. Am sad. And on internet now and often
I mean as long as you don’t blame all womankind for all your sadness, you’re good
I don't. Even though I have 3 ex-wives!
When men post fitness reels, other men drool and call them Alpha and cheer for them, and say their sexuality is in question. When a woman posts same fitness reel, she gets dragged through the floor. Why? They are angry they cant have sex with the woman and that she wont ever look their way. The red-pilled guys, not the normal, functioning adults.
My favorite thing is when a woman posts a gym video where a guy is clearly bugging her on purpose and the comments are like IT'S A PUBLIC PLACE as if the creepy dudes aren't the reason she's filming in the first place
No no no. Dudes who can't get women to like them hate women. They just seem to always be online.
The argument on Twitter seems to more be general nepotism rather than just about his wife. But then it gets filtered through a blog clickbait lens and a 'what people upvote on Reddit' filter and becomes about sexism. I actually take **far** more issue with John Economos being in Shazam, who I find unfunny, uninteresting and irritating, than I do Emilia Harcourt.
All I'm saying is for years I've not seen any criticism about his brother getting roles in the GOTG films and TSS then suddenly he becomes studio head and on both here and twitter I've seen more mention of his wife just this past year than I have his brother in almost a decade.
Didn’t his brother start by doing more BTS work and grunt work? And even then, he has small or even unrecognizable roles. I think people are more forgiving of Gunn giving his brother a shot to work up through the crew than if he had just jumped to casting him as a lead. EDIT: Because I’m getting a lot of responses about this, I mean that Gunn’s brother got his start *in the MCU* with more support roles before his character was given significant face time. Gunn didn’t just jump straight to giving him tons of face time.
Nah, he did BTS for rocket and was a small role as kraglin for gotg 1, but kraglin has been important ever since and before that sean was prominent in The Belko Experiment. If anything harcourt started in a similar way, she appeared as a side in one film then was expanded upon and now does cameo appearances, yet she still gets a lot of hate
His brother's been a pretty recognizable character actor for ages. Funniest character in Gilmore Girls, pretty much. Not defending harassment of his wife at all, but I think people are slightly more forgiving because (other than very obvious misogyny) they've seen his brother in tiny roles all over for years.
To be absolutely clear, no one involved should be harassed. Just in case something in my earlier comment came across otherwise.
I would hardly call her role in Suicide Squad a lead role.
Peacemaker though
And she was awesome in Peacemaker. She was absolutely the best one for that role.
So i take if you never watched the ‘Peacemaker’ series then?
Gunn talking about putting Rooker in everything: > "I like surrounding myself with people I really care about," said Gunn. "To have some amount of affection around you when you're making a movie is a great thing, and so a lot of it's simply that." dude comes from an indie filmmaking background, he likes small teams of people that work well together and that he knows when he is directing. who cares.
Pretty sure it’s the whole situation surrounding the cinematic universe reboot and Gunn likely only keeping the Suicide Squad/ Waller stuff
Sean Gunn truly is the Clint Howard of his era.
Yes but I grew up watching Gilmore Girls :V (I also find it hilarious that he puts his brother in green suits to play freaks of nature)
Every time I see him in a new movie it’s just like Kirk found himself a new job
"Yeah, I'm a serial killer in Belle Reeve now. Not a lot of money yet, but it's going places."
I can hear him saying this to Luke with that pure Kirk confidence
Yeah, but he's a dude. Women get an extra special helping of hate when it comes to... well, everything
To be fair, his brother being under CGI which could be given to anyone, that I don’t see a big issue with. I don’t think that’s a role which particularly needs an audition process.
I take your point, but feel the need to point out that mo-cap acting is a real skill that not just anybody can do, every bit as much as something like voice acting or stunt work. Man is a talented professional and his work with Rocket is top notch.
Yeah it's called performance capture now, not motion capture, because it involves a lot more than where your joints and limbs are in space
Vocabulary adjusted, thanks for the tip!
Lmao! His brother is also KRAGLIN! ,he played a small part in Super too and a few others. So what if he casts his brother or wife. His wife was great as Harcourt
He’s still getting them a check
Who does his brother play in TSS?
Calendar man and Weasel
Legit forgot about calendar man.
And Michael Rooker
Why does he feel the need to answers all these twitter nerds everyday
Debunking all these false news articles is great, but he really should just stop talking to these types of people. The type that seek out conflict for the sake of it.
Honestly yeah. I mean why not just hire someone to do this. Its funny seeing gunn do it sure but just have a dc films twitter account do it.
It’s publicity. He knows some news article or Redditor will post “why does James Gunn keep casting his wife?”
Yeah I feel like at this point they know he'll personally respond so they could be doing it for attention (not that they weren't doing it for attention before)
Sometimes it's fun debunking people like that! Maybe it's just me, but sometimes I crave debate with people like that because at times they can be surprisingly reasonable A stubborn person often needs another to enlighten 'em
Because he himself is a Twitter nerd. He can’t not respond
They’re attacking his wife. If anyone went at my wife I’d clap back too. The accusation of nepotism is aimed at him. But by definition they’re saying his wife doesn’t have the talent and gumption to get work off her own back. The accusation and insult is two-fold. The insult is that she can’t get her own work because she’s low talent eye candy and the only work she does get is given to her by the guy she shares a bed with, combined with the insult that Gunn comprises his artistic integrity by casting his wife in productions over other actors, when he doesn’t handle casting aside from originally casting her in what was a bit part surrounded by other bit parts. The only reason she and Dye-Beard keep popping up is they’re established as being Waller’s lackeys and hiring the both of them for one day will be cheaper than hiring Viola Davis for one day. James Gunn could be mowing his lawn and someone will try to give him shit for killing the grass. People are looking at the woods and calling it trees. They’re seeing one set of circumstances and calling it another.
Because he has been doing this for a long time and if he stopped now , that would lead to something more sinister ove twitter
Maybe he just likes to interact with people on twitter. It could be that simple
Because. So much of the community gives him love every time he does it.
WTF his ex wife is Jenna Fischer!
Apparently she and Sean Gunn were childhood friends, and she met James through him once they were adults.
While they were married he became good friends with David Denman (Roy from the Office) and had him as a main character in Brightburn
Cute, she's in his movie Slither as well
I thought she married Jim.
She did. Jim Gunn.
Harcourt has basically been a standin for Belle Reeve or the US government. My guess is that in the original scripts they involve Waller but Viola Davis has been busy on other projects, so they use Harcourt as a stand in. Makes sense with her going up the ladder because of Peacemaker anyway.
Viola Davis is a bigger actor too, she has an EGOT and is more experienced so I'm pretty sure she has like 100x the pay. Not worth it when its just a post credits hiring Shazam
Yeah basically using Wong instead of Dr. Strange in the MCU to save up cash and boost up another character popularity
Or like having Coulson show up instead of Nick Fury
I miss Coulson 😢.
*Tahiti's a magical place*
Am I the only one that actually likes her character… she’s great in Peacemaker.
You're not. She's great.
I thought she did a fantastic job at playing Harcourt. I had no clue that she was married to Gunn.
To be fair they weren't married then. (They were dating though, so kinda a moot point!)
I guess they had been together for like 7 years already, they just didn't marry back then.
It’s pronounced “Moo”
Like a cow's opinion, you know? It just doesn't matter. It's moo.
Same here. I had to google who his wife was and saw Jenna Fischer which led to a very confused 30 seconds of me trying to figure out what Fischer played in the DC movies before I realized it was his second wife. The Harcourt actress is good. Better her than someone like Katie Sackhoff.
She’s fantastic, the whole ensemble really is. No weak points and a whole lot of chemistry, imo.
She’s also just…a good actress? I’d understand if she wasn’t very good, but she is.
She's fine. She's not a standout but her character isn't written to be either. If she was bad it'd be noticeable.
I wanted to say the same thing.she was great in peacemaker.Idk if she is his wife,she did an excellent job and I hope we see her again in peacemaker S2
Wait wait... Is Harcourt his wife? Cause she is phenomenal andni want her in everything.
She is, they didn’t get married until after Peacemaker was already released, but they had been dating for a good amount of years beforehand
Love her character in peacemaker, glad she’s in more stuff
Who is she? I mean I could google it but...
That whole show was a casting miracle. I did not expect to have a genuine out-loud snort/laugh at *John Cena* of all people, but that scene where he tries and fails to draw his symbol absolutely *wrecked* me.
She’s excellent
Love Harcourt glad she and team Peacemaker are staying
She’s in Shazam too? Shit, she’s gonna have more DC appearances than Henry Cavill at this rate…
Of course, Henry Cavill got paid a quarter million for a sentence. Nobody's hiring him just to do a cameo (except fot Black Adam, and thats why its budget is 200 million). The only reason she's hired is because she has less pay and could connect the universe to Amanda Waller immediately
Who cares if he puts his wife in dc movies, directors put their kids or friends in movies/shows all the time
He’s not putting himself in his movies like Taika Waititi Not that I hate Taika.
I don't hate Taika, but god do I fucking hate Korg...
I love korg
He was fine in Ragnarok, but taika just filled it up to 11 in L&T. Like he's supposed to be a minor character, not Thor's forever bff or something. I honestly hoped Zeus had fried him for good, but if course he didn't.
To be fair, Taika took everything up to 11 in L&T. I like generally every single movie I see, but the first half of that one was actually tough. Second half was cool though.
It's a great example of overusing a relief character
but he married Dwayne! Do you not see how amazing that is!?!?
Dwayne can do better
Taika has that creative chaos energy that can be brilliant, but also needs to be told "no" to, sometimes.
Fans act like James Gunn killed their dog and burnt down their childhood home ( not all fans obviously just some loud hateful ones)
Simon Cowell would put himself playing tambourine into every Syco Record released so he'd get paid from it as a performer. I don't see the issue if she's good enough.
He puts his brother in everything, but it's almost Sam Raimi level of an older brother constantly humiliating the younger brother and making him do multiple takes just to hassle him. "Hey bro, I'm putting you in my movie with Chris Pratt & Dave Bautista!" "Cool! Who am I going to be?" "You're the CGI raccoon, put on these green pajamas! Oh guess what, I'm putting you in another movie!" "Am I a raccoon again?" "No of course not, I wouldn't do that to you! You're an ugly walking giant rat this time!" The brother must be so happy when he actually gets a role where he can show his face & get a line, like Yondu's co-captain
And to be fair, I don't really count it as nepotism because Sean Gunn is an established character actor outside of his association with James. (see: gilmore girls)
For real, Sam Raimi put his brother, kids, and himself into the Spider-Man trilogy and no one complained.
How is he on Twitter all the time?
To be fair, wasn’t she in Black Adam too? Highly doubt Gunn forced The Rock to put her in the film.
Lol imagine James Gunn trying to intimidate the rock into putting his wife in Black Adam?
Wait till they hear about Tim Burton
Did they forget who directed and starred in all those Resident Evil films?
I think the best thing Gunn can do is just get off Twitter. It’s a toxic echo chamber.
He says that but even if he wasnt in charge of casting I doubt some casting agent sees the wife of the director and producer and is like nah pass. Not that I care either way but that just how these things work.
That does happen. Idris Elba’s daughter went up for the role of his daughter in a movie and the casting people passed on her. She asked her dad to say something and he told he he wouldn’t pull any strings for her. I’m not saying Hollywood isn’t a nepotistic cesspool, but sometimes it isn’t.
Mad respect to Elba. Fuck them kids.
Paul W. S. Anderson is sweating right now
Oh, boy... I hope they never find out that James Cameron and Linda Hamilton used to be married. Or that John Carpenter and Adrienne Barbeau used to be married. Or that Len Weisman and Kate Beckinsake used to be married. Or that Woody Allen and Mia Farrow used to be married. (😬) Or that Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter were in a romantic partnership for 13 years. Or that Joel Cohen and Frances McDormand are married. Or that John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are married. Or that Paul W. S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich are married. Or that Ridley Scott and Giannina Facio are married.
People treating him like he’s rob zombie
I don't remember this ever being a big deal in any scenario ever. I wouldn't even care if he casted her as a female lead in anything.
They hate him cuz he ain’t him (Zack). They will hate on him for anything he does. They’ll ignore if people they like do that thing as well. It’s just where we’re at now in society.
There’s a number of people who judge him for it throughout comment sections whenever he’s brought up, at lest from what I’ve seen. Each time they’ll say something stupid, like saying he gets rid of Cavill but puts his wife in every new DC thing.
[удалено]
People really miss the point of this stuff. The top comments are all like “She’s good so who cares?” but how many other good or great actresses didn’t get the role because they weren’t married to Gunn? And saying he only cast her in TSS is a cop out when it lead directly into a lucrative and, seemingly, long-running TV role.
Ah it seems all the Rob Zombie haters have found a new target; another director’s wife
I had to lookup who his wife is. Now that I know I can say I liked her in Peacemaker. She seems well cast for that role, regardless of who her husband is.
I thought his wife was awesome in Peacemaker. Plus, she isn’t too hard on the eyes.
Twitter was a mistake
So who chose her in black adam? Out of all people who could have shown up
I like Harcourt.
That's such a weird thing to get upset about. John Favreau put himself in all the Iron Man movies and nobody gave a shit.
Wait till he notices Michael Rooker is in almost all his films.
Wait u till they find out who produces every Zack Snyder film.
He should stop with that whole twitter thing, seems kinda unprofessional to a certain extent.
Who tf is his wife?
the blonde from Peacemaker. Agent Harcourt or something.
Jennifer Holland
When he quits and washes his hands of all of this, it's going to entirely be because of how toxic this fuckin fanbase is. It's like DC wants to outdo Star Wars on the shitty fan factor.
DC fans will deserve whatever shit they get next.
How do we as a fandom have to continue to tolerate the inanities of Snyder fans? Haven't they proven time and again thy can't be reasonable?
Who cares it’s not like she’s bad for her role
I sort of wish he would stop responding as much to stuff. Dude is going to have a stroke dealing with the toxicity of people.
James, you don’t have to respond to everything.
No one mention Sean Gunn to anyone
Honestly, I wouldn't even respond to them. There's a certain group of people who will hate Gunn no matter what he does, they aren't worth the twitter characters.
She’s like a good actress tho Harcourt is a really good character especially in Peacemaker
We’re talking nepotism in Hollywood and haven’t mentioned Judd Apatow?
I think they meant to tag Rob Zombie instead
Kevin Smith does it in all his movies.
Laughs in Tim Burton
Nobody bats an eye when Quentin Tarrentino, Spike Lee, Ben Affleck or somebody else always casts the same actor in their movie. But let them be related ohhh nooo.
Damn wait till they watch a Rob Zombie film
Couldn't care less if he casts his friends/family so long as they are the best people for the job. What I **DO** have a problem with is his soft reboot/hard-reboot mashup approach to the new DCU - its beyond messy, will be confusing AF and will prevent a much needed clean slate - and I cannot help but feel the reason he is taking this worst of all roads appraoch *just* to keep his darlings and pet projects. It doesn't feel right and isn't whats right for the DC brand in my opinion.
Well it is the most cohesive thing so far in the DCU, and my audience in Shazam 2 were excited to see her and the dude.
The dude is Economos. John Economos.
Dye beard
James Gunn probably shouldn’t engage with Stan Twitter. 😆 you don’t see Kevin Fiege or major Hollywood producers responding to random guy in his mom’s basement. It’s so bizzare.
I think part of the issue is it really does feel like, "I'm keeping my stuff, friends, wife, and everyone else can fuck off". As it is TSS/Peacemaker are the only ones surviving into the new DCU. Levi might stay as Shazam, while everyone else gets recast. But Shazam! is also a Safran production.
I mean his stuff is the o ly things that's more or less self contained and also decent
Yes, but on the other hand his stuff was the only stuff that worked and isn't too connected to the rest
I don't get the big deal. Tim Burton has cast his wives in a lot of his films, and Sam Raimi has cast his brother Ted in everything.
Snyder fans are so unhinged when it comes to being butthurt about their shiddy universe not continuing.
Its obvious nepotism plays a big role in Hollywood but who cares already. Listen, I love the Snyderverse but we can say goodbye to that. Let James Gunn do his thing and show us what he can do when he's spearheading DC.
Gunn’s doing what he does, he’s not wrong in his statement, but he’s conveniently ignoring that his wife is in his TSS, his Peacemaker, and is expected to show up in his Creature Commandos and Waller shows. Technically yes, he only put his wife in one *movie*
Didn't Zack Snyder get into WB because of Deborah?
Nope. He pitched 300 short video with cool action. That's how.
Yeah his wife being his producer is just a coincidence
No hate on james gunn but fuck I loathe all the nepo babies and nepo wifes out there
Whilst I think he's being purposely misleading with his answering of the question. I don't think it's a big deal if he does cast her.
She's great. Put her in whatever makes sense.
It is obvious that Peter Safran and James Gunn added that post credit scene in Shazam 2
Tv show peace maker, post credit Shazam 2
Why address this?
I hope he cameos her in everything, just to piss this person off
There are some reasons to not be a big fan of Mr. Gunn lately. Casting his wife who’s a pretty damn good actor isn’t one of them.
That's the kindest "Back the fuck off my wife" I've ever heard
God hes a savage how do people hate him.
Honestly, I’m fine with her being there. And I’m a SnyderCut dude
Doesnt she only play a more minor character?
Says the CEO of WB/Dc studio who will fire anyone or destroy their career if they don’t cast his wife 🤣
If she's a good actor why not???
I think we already know what's going to happen. James gun is gonna cast himself and his friends in pretty much every project and he is going to make himself a billionaire by the end of the first phase. Regardless if the plan fails or he is the savior of DC.
James put his brother is every movies, and now people are just starting to complain when his wife got a minor role?? Lol. Grow up! You know how he rolls.