The fall of director Joss Whedon has been well documented over the past few years. Now that years have passed, Whedon addresses the allegations and it’s safe to say, he did not help his case with his comments. Whedon sat down with Vulture’s Lila Shapiro to discuss the allegations.
When asked about several of the allegations lobbied against him, Whedon admitted that he wasn’t as “civilized” back then.
The following comes from Shapiro’s report:
“I was young,” Whedon said. “I yelled, and sometimes you had to yell. This was a very young cast, and it was easy for everything to turn into a cocktail party.” He said he would never intentionally humiliate anyone. “If I am upsetting somebody, it will be a problem for me.” The costume designer who said he’d grabbed her arm? “I don’t believe that,” he said, shaking his head. “I know I would get angry, but I was never physical with people.” Had he made out with an actress on the floor of someone’s office? “That seems false. I don’t understand that story even a little bit.” He removed his glasses and rubbed his face. “I should run to the loo.” When he came back, he said the story didn’t make sense to him because he “lived in terror” of his affairs being discovered.
Whedon told Shapiro that the altercation with Gadot didn’t happen the way the actress had claimed.
“I don’t threaten people. Who does that?” He then went on to say that “English is not her first language, and I tend to be annoyingly flowery in my speech.”
Whedon then recalled arguing over a scene Gadot wanted to cut.
“Then I was told that I had said something about her dead body and tying her to the railroad track,”
(Gadot did not agree with Whedon’s version of events. “I understood perfectly,”
When it came time to explain why he cut significant portions of Cyborg’s (Ray Fisher) role in Justice League, he said the character’s storyline
“logically made no sense,”
In fact, according to Whedon, none of the accusations Fisher made to media outlets at the time of his outcry were
“either true or merited discussing.”
“We’re talking about a malevolent force,” he said. “We’re talking about a bad actor in both senses.”
“Nobody ever fell from a pedestal into anything but a pit,”
