Actress Gal Gadot says she clashed with director Joss Whedon while filming reshoots for the “Justice League,” alleging her career was “threatened” when she questioned some of the lines for her character.
Yahoo! Entertainment reported that Gadot made the allegations in an interview with Israeli media outlet N12, saying, “I had my issues with Joss, and I handled it.”
“He threatened my career and said that if I do something, he will make sure my career is miserable and I took care of it on the spot,” she added.
Gadot did not elaborate on what led to the incident, but The Hollywood Reporter quoted a witness who told the outlet: “Joss was bragging that he’s had it out with Gal. He told her he’s the writer and she’s going to shut up and say the lines and he can make her look incredibly stupid in this movie.”
This source also told THR that Gadot had “issues about her character being more aggressive than her character in Wonder Woman. She wanted to make the character flow from one movie to the next.” But the biggest issue Gadot had with Whedon was when he tried to get her to record lines she didn’t feel were right. That’s when Whedon allegedly threatened Gadot’s career and even disparaged the director of “Wonder Woman,” Patty Jenkins.
At the time, THR reported that Gadot and Jenkins took the issue to Warner Bros., which led to a meeting with then-chairman Kevin Tsujihara. Gadot told THR at the time: “I had my issues with [Whedon] and Warner Bros. handled it in a timely manner.”
Gadot is far from the only person to have issues with Whedon. Actor Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg in “Justice League,” alleged last summer in a tweet that Whedon’s “on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable.” While supporting Fisher, Gadot at the time alluded to her own problems with Whedon, telling The Los Angeles Times that her experience with him “wasn’t the best.”
Fisher’s tweet resulted in an investigation against Whedon’s behavior, as well as whether producers Geoff Johns and Jon Berg enabled the director’s behavior. As THR reported, the “investigation concluded in December, with Warner Bros. releasing little detail beyond saying that ‘remedial action has been taken.’”
Whedon has also faced allegations from Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,” who accused Whedon of having “a history of being casually cruel” to those he worked with. She also alleged Whedon created “hostile and toxic work environments.”
“Joss Whedon abused his power on numerous occasions while working together on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel,” she wrote. “The disturbing incidents triggered a chronic physical condition from which I still suffer. It is with a beating, heavy heart that I say I coped in isolation and, at times, destructively.”
As The Cut documented, after Fisher and Carpenter’s allegations, more actors came forward with their own accusations against Whedon, including his ex-wife, who alleged the director only pretends to be a woke feminist to hide his infidelities.