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Ant-Man Evangeline Lilly has expressed her frustration over the recent layoffs at Disney that have hit a number of Marvel Studios employees.
CEO Josh D’Amaro informed employees of the cuts in a memo dated April 14, a source familiar with the matter said Hollywood Reporter About 1,000 jobs were eliminated. Marvel Studios was included in the cutbacks, laying off members of its visual development team, particularly 16-year veteran Andy Park, who was well known to fans.
In a video she posted on Instagram on Wednesday, Lily explained that when she heard the news of the layoffs, she reached out to Park, who confirmed that he had been laid off.
“I reached out to my good friend Andy Park, who was the genius behind creating the original Wasp suit and the original Wasp graphics for the movie Ant-Man and the WaspAnd I just said: Is this true? “Is this really what’s going on?” she said. “And he said, ‘Yes, that’s true.’ “I’ve been let go. I can’t believe Disney has let go of the artists who brought the Marvel Universe to life through their imagination and genius.
Park has worked with Marvel for nearly two decades, starting in 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger and bull. He has continued to lend his talents to most major studio projects across the MCU, including Avengers: Endgame; He also worked on the long-awaited sequel to the last film, Avengers: Doomsday.
Lilly added that she was shocked that “the people who invented these characters, who designed them in the first place, are now being replaced by artificial intelligence.”
It is not known whether Disney actually intends to use artificial intelligence for such work. Hollywood Reporter I reached out to Marvel Studios for comment, but did not hear back as of press time.
“AI that will take their designs and take what these artists created and use it to create duplicate versions of that,” Lilly continued.
In the caption of the social post, Lily directly tagged Disney’s Instagram account, writing: “Shame on you for turning your back on the people who built the power you now use to get rid of them.”
“Where are the laws that remove all human art from the AI bank?!? Why can they steal our brilliance and use it to make CEOs rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots starve? It’s disgusting,” she wrote. “California legislators… where are you?!?!?”
Lily joined the MCU in 2015 as Hope van Dyne (aka Wasp). Ant-Man. She appeared in the film’s sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Quantum obsession (2023), plus Avengers: Endgame.
In 2024, Lily shared on social media that she would be stepping away from acting. She’s not part of the cast list for the jam-packed MCU version doomsday In December. However, her Quantum obsession Co-stars Paul Rudd and Kathryn Newton will appear in the film.
