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Tatiana Maslany calls fans to boycott Disney+

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Tatiana Maslany has urged her fans to boycott Disney+ in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel Live! being pulled off air.

The 39-year-old actress - who starred in the network's She Hulk: Attorney at Law in 2022 - has pledged her support to the 57-year-old broadcaster after ABC scrapped his show "indefinitely" in the wake of comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Tatiana shared a behind-the-scenes picture from She-Hulk and wrote: "Cancel your @disneyplus @hulu @espn subscriptions!(sic)"

Transparent star Amy Landecker also took to Instagram to show she had cancelled her Disney+ subscription.

Meanwhile, Lost creator Damon Lindelof has insisted he can't "in good conscience" work for ABC or its parent companies again unless Jimmy's show returns to air.

He wrote on Instagram: "I was shocked, saddened and infuriated by yesterday's suspension and look forward to it being lifted soon.

"If it isn't, I can't in good conscience work for the company that imposed it."

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has condemned the way Jimmy has been "silenced".

They said in a statement: "The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.

 

"As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.

"Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.

"The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers."

Jimmy's show was pulled after he suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting Kirk at a university in Utah, was aligned to the Make America Great Again movement.

He said during a monologue on the show: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

He added: "In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."

Nexstar Media, the largest local broadcast and digital media company in the US, later confirmed they planned to "replace the show with other programming".

The company said in a statement: "Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets."


 

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