Evangeline Lilly is blasting The Walt Disney Company over the layoffs at Marvel, which saw their workforce reduced by about 8%.
The company-wide cuts at Disney affected most departments, including film and TV production, comics, franchise, finance, legal, and visual development. Marvel’s visual department was severely affected by the cuts, even after a small round of layoffs in 2024.
Lilly, who is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and starred as Hope van Dyne, the Wasp, in 2015’s Ant-Man, took to social media to call out Disney over the cuts.
“SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away,” Lilly captioned her Instagram post.
In the video, Lilly was reacting to news of the Marvel layoffs. She noted that she had seen the video and, to confirm its veracity, she contacted Andy Park, who
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