Glenn Close Shares Her Blunt Thoughts on Disney Firing James Gunn
Over the past couple of months, we've heard a lot of people share their opinion on Disney firing James Gunn as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. It's a shame they won't be hiring him back and as of right now, the project is in a state of limbo.
Now Glenn Close, who had a role in the first Guardians of the Galaxy film, shares her own thoughts on the situation and she is pretty blunt with her thoughts. I think she shares the same opinion as a lot of fans and people, which is why I thought I'd share it. This is what she told Empire Magazine:
"It's hard to think of it without him. It's sad. And it brings up, I think, some very tricky issues around this movement. I bring it up with every woman I talk to because I want to know what people feel, you know? Is that truly what we should be doing? Especially in this case, somebody who's known to ruin people for something that they wrote in a totally different context, what, ten, 12 years ago? What are we going to do, go back to our pasts and make sure that everything we said was politically correct? Who can live like that? I just feel that there's something wrong about that."
She goes on to say:
"We are very flawed creatures. Look at what we're doing to our fucking world. It was a question I was talking about to somebody last night - you have somebody that actually has the creative energy to create something like Guardians of the Galaxy. He's a flawed human being. He was a, you know, cocky asshole back then, and was saying things to provoke people. Does that negate him as an artist? I don't think so. I personally do not think so. Or else we're taking down buildings and paintings - you know, take down all the Picassos, he treated women terribly. If it's going to be a lasting cultural revolution, which is a big change, if... We've got to take into consideration human nature."
She makes some very good and fair points here. We can't expect people to be perfect, but when they realize and admit that they did something wrong and put in the effort to change and become better people, that should be applauded not punished.
What do you think about what Close had to say here?