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'Ant-Man' Star Calls for Disney Boycott After Exiting MCU Franchise
Lilly says Disney is replacing artists with AI after Marvel cut about 8% of staff, including longtime visual development artist Andy Park.
- Actor Evangeline Lilly publicly criticized The Walt Disney Company on Wednesday, condemning recent Marvel layoffs and alleging the reported replacement of artists with artificial intelligence.
- Disney recently cut around 1,000 staff members in a purge impacting roughly 8% of the workforce across film, television, visual development, comics, finance, and legal departments.
- Among those affected was Marvel Studios Director of Visual Development Andy Park, a 16-year veteran responsible for the original Wasp concept designs who announced his departure last week.
- In an Instagram video, Lilly tagged Disney and demanded legislative action to "REMOVE all human art from the AI bank," questioning why executives profit while artists are replaced.
- Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro attributed the cuts to an effort to "streamline operations" in an internal memo that made no mention of artificial intelligence as a reason for layoffs.
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