The Bear actor called Musk a fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a rightwing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp
Summary
Ayo Edebiri said she received "insane death threats" after Elon Musk shared a false report claiming she would replace Johnny Depp in a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot.
The rumor, posted by a right-wing account with no industry ties, was never confirmed by credible sources. Musk, who commented “Disney sucks,” amplified the hoax.
Edebiri later called Musk an idiot and a fascist for promoting fascist right-wing rhetoric.
Meanwhile, producer Jerry Bruckheimer confirmed a reboot is in development but did not confirm Depp’s involvement.
the owner of the original account said: “I clearly stated ‘reportedly’ because it was the latest information coming from credible Hollywood sources. And yes, I am a HUGE fan and supporter of Mr Musk. He has my loyalty for LIFE, and I don’t say that lightly.”
That's fuckin' weird bro. Fuckin' weird. Back in my day we used to call those kind of people flunkies and bootlickers.
This sort of thing is frighteningly common. The first two instances that come to mind for me are both Star Wars films: Ahmed Best after The Phantom Menace and Kelly Marie Tran after The Last Jedi.
Kinda want her to get the role now just so these assholes don't see Depp or somebody else in the new movie and think that they had a hand in saving Hollywood from the evil forces of woke. Satisfaction is not permitted.
The franchise isn’t called Jack Sparrow. It’s called Pirates of the Caribbean, based off a theme park ride which, as far as I know, has no named characters. The main character could be any pirate.
But maybe make her name less derivative… like Judy Pigeon or something… ;)
The level of utter derangement people have over mainstream cinema (marvel, star wars, franchise, action slop, disney remakes) being 'tainted' by a raceswap, or being 'woke' in some way is off the scales.
There are genuinely people crying themselves to sleep over the perceived quality of the entertainment equivalent of happy meals. There's an entire caustic critic industry over it. It's honestly pathetic how so many people have MCU Derangement syndrome.
People like to say, "you couldn't make that today" when they see something that they perceive as being "anti-woke" (they're almost always wrong, of course).
I feel like they literally could not make The Wiz today without people like this losing their shit.
She's a successful black actress, they unfortunately come with the territory. I imagine they hit differently when they're coming from actual Nazis though
(This was meant to be a joke but it kinda just made me sad as I was typing it)
We can agree that derranged humans exist on both sides of the fence. So... No one makes these derranged threats at Elon??
Really?
Either the death threats were generated by Grok or Elon suddenly grew thick skin.
I'm not saying crazies aren't out there making derranged death threats. They are. I've seen it with my own two eyes
But this? This is retaliatory, and seems at least if not accurate then editorialized to make me believe she's getting, like, more than is statistically normal (ew). And from a guy with a fancy LLM in his assets??? Call it speculation, it is, but something smells like shit.
Can you explain what you are talking about? Are you implying Musk used some AI to... Make accounts and have those accounts threaten an actress after he reposted a false report about her? What?
With unfettered access to something like groks API, musk could literally effortlessly unleash an infinite stream of email account creation and death threats from those emails addresses to further his agenda, feelings, ego, etc.