The two-time Oscar winner actually had said for a voice part in the animated film “Luck”. However, after the production company, Skydance announced in January, John Lasseter as the new head of the animation division, decided the British actress, from the project to fold. Reason: Lasseter was flown at his previous employer, Disney, out, after several women had accused him of sexual harassment. In a letter to Thompson accuses the Skydance-Management, lack of responsibility. the
It was a moral Venture, as the American production company Skydance Media announced in January, John Lasseter as head of the newly founded animation Department. Finally, the 61-Year-old had been gone as head of Pixar and Disney Animation, after several women had accused him of sexual harassment. Skydance chief David Ellison committed to the trick film-maker anyway – but was apparently compelled to explain to its employees the personnel in times of Metoo: He was sure that “John is a valuable lesson” I learned it was called in an internal Letter to employees.
What is the Skydance-employees thought about the new head of the animation division, really, is not known. The world now knows, what keeps Oscar winner Emma Thompson to Lasseters Job at Skydance: nothing.
The British actress is supposed to take on a speaking role in the animated film “Luck” of the Studios – said the after the obligation to Lasseters. Your reasons you stated in a letter to the Management of the production company, the actress has now made the LA Times accessible. The 59-Year-old wonders how the company can set a man with Lasseter’s “pattern of misconduct” in a climate “in which it would be reasonable to expect from people with your influence, you take responsibility”.
“Why would want to work for a woman for him?”
The two-time Oscar-winner (“Wiedersehen in Howards End”, 1992, “sense and sensibility”, 1995) faced by the Studio bosses that it apparently was considered necessary to undertake Lasseter contractually to certain rules of etiquette. “Why would want to work for a woman for him, if the only reason that he was not touched inappropriately, is that his contract says that he must ‘behave professionally’?” Lasseter get his “second Chance” allegedly millions: “How much money the Skydance-employees get for GIVING him this second Chance?”
The trade journal Variety had reported in January, Lasseter had been interrogated prior to the signing of the agreement with Skydance by a team of lawyers literally and in writing to assure, for any financial claims because of future misconduct, self-pay. Skydance withdraw on Lasseters Ex-employer have to compensate Disney no woman financially, so Thompson continued: “But do we really believe that there was no harassment or toxic work environment, just because no compensation has been paid?”
you say your Part in the movie “Luck” with a heavy heart, because Director Alessandro Carloni appreciate it very much. But, as Thompson concludes: “I am also aware that it is very unlikely that things will change in the right pace, in order to protect the Generation of my daughter, if people like me (…) not a sign.”
