Legendary actress, Emma Thompson, will not be starring in the upcoming comedy Luck, and she wants you to know why.
The Brit had previously signed on to the project which examines the millenia-old battle between the organisations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affects our daily lives.
The film is being produced by Skydance Animation which recently hired former creative chief of Pixar and Disney Animation, John Lasseter, as its head. Lasseter took a leave of absence from Disney in November 2017, following an admission that he committed unspecified “missteps” that left some employees feeling “disrespected or uncomfortable.”
“It feels very odd to me that you and your company would consider hiring someone with Mr. Lasseter’s pattern of misconduct given the present climate in which people with the kind of power that you have can reasonably be expected to step up to the plate,” Thompson has now written in a letter addressed to the Luck producers.
“He is presumably being paid millions of dollars to receive that second chance. How much money are the employees at Skydance being paid to give him that second chance?”
