According to hard allegations by DC star Gal Gadot: "Justice League" director Joss Whedon takes a position for the first time

With his clever 90s vampire series "Buffy", Joss Whedon became a darling of many fans.The series offered exciting genre entertainment, biting dialogues in the double sense and turned the cliché of the blonde, pretty woman upside down, who is often the victim in horror films, but at "Buffy" the tough yet vulnerable heroine.As director of the very successful Marvel blockbuster "Avengers" and "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron", Whedon was then at the height of his career, followed by his commitment to the DC spectacle "Justice League", where he was directed after the departure ofZack Snyder took over - soon afterwards his career was in ruins.

As early as 2017, Joss Whedon's ex-wife Kai Cole published an open letter in which she described him as a "hypocritical", the "feminist ideal sermon", but cheated on them during her marriage several times.Ray Fisher, who as Cyborg only has a small role in Whedon's version of "Justice League", described the behavior of the director on the set of the DC film as "repulsive, insulting, unprofessional and completely unacceptable.“This behavior was made possible by the producers Geoff Johns and Jon Berg, according to another accusation.

Other stars supported Fisher."Wonder Woman" actress Gal Gadot, for example, accused Whedon of threatening to destroy her career on the set.

In the course of these allegations, “Buffy” stars also spoke up.Accordingly, Whedon, as a showrunner on "Buffy" and "Angel", had already provided a very uncomfortable atmosphere with his behavior and also conducted several sexual relationships with employees who were professionally dependent on him.For an extensive article at Vulture, Joss Whedon has now broken his long silence and for the first time commented on the allegations, which he essentially denies.

The director leads two reasons why Ray Fisher's part is so small in the theater of "Justice League" compared to the much longer version "Zack Snyders Justice League" published in 2021 ".On the one hand, Cyborg's plot "made no sense", on the other hand, Fisher's acting performance was too bad.As Vulture learned from a source close to the production, Whedon was supported in his view that Cyborg should have failed in demonstrations in front of the test audience.

In any case, however, Whedon insists that he has always discussed with Fisher on the set in detail and friendly about all changes.None of the allegations made in the media of Ray Fisher are "true or deserves a discussion"."We speak of a bad actor in both meanings of the word," says Whedon against Fisher.In the original quote, he uses the term "Bad Actor", who is ambiguous and can also describe a person with evil intentions.

In this context, WHEDON also fails against Fisher's accusation that he had made the color of "Justice League" brighter because he did not like Fisher's dark skin tone.The decision to brighten up the whole film had nothing to do with Fisher, so the allegation of racism does not apply.

Ray Fisher announced on Twitter in response to the Vulture article that "work will continue tomorrow".In connection with the article, Fisher writes of "Lies" and "Clownie".

“I don't threaten people.Who does something like that? ”, Joss Whedon comments on the accusation of Gal Gadot.He suspects that she simply misunderstood him on the set."English is not her mother tongue and I tend to express myself annoyingly flowery," says Whedon.He remembers a discussion about a scene that Gadot did not want to have in the film, but he was already.Whedon said out of joke that she had to chains him on train tracks and remove the scene over his body - whereupon he was told that Gadot understood that it was about her dead body and about chains her to the tracks.

So a misunderstanding?In any case, Gal Gadot denied the representation of Whedon directly against Vulture."I understood him perfectly," says the Israeli actress.

According to Whedon's first statement, there are now different statements in the room.Clarification is not in sight.Nevertheless, the director and author, who has not worked on any further project after leaving the HBO Fantasy series "The Nevers", is also self-critical-at least a little.It is worth reading the whole Vulture article that we can only reproduce here in excerpts.

In the end, Whedon says: “Could I have done my marriage better?Definitely.Could I have been a better show runner?Absolutely.Should I have been nicer? ”At least calmer and more direct he could have behaved, Whedon today thinks.Maybe he was too nice overall, so that his directness came across whenever he used her.In any case, people have now used "every word of the modern era that can be transformed into a weapon to give the impression that he was a abusing monster"."I think I'm one of the nicer show runners".