Guardians of the Galaxy stars Karen Gillan and Pom Klementieff are the latest to weigh in on the controversy surrounding fired franchise writer-director James Gunn.
?Love to every single member of my GOTG family,? Gillan wrote on Twitter Sunday night. ?Just to clarify,? the Nebula actress wrote in a subsequent tweet, ?I?ll speak more on this later but just wanted to make sure that was out there. Love to you all.?
Gillan?s co-star Klementieff expressed solidarity in the form of a 33-second video published to social media, where the Mantis actress silently pens ?we are Groot,? ?we are a family,? and ?we stand together.?
Both stars most recently belonged to the expansive cast of crossover epic Avengers: Infinity War, where Gunn served as executive producer. Both Gillan and Klementieff will return in followup Avengers 4, out in May.
Drax actor Dave Bautista was the first to take to Twitter in Gunn?s defense after the ousted director was officially fired by Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn, who said in a statement ?the offensive attitudes and statements on James? Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio?s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him.?
Multiple tweets published by Gunn between 2008 and 2012 were the cause for the firing: the filmmaker has a history of making repeat posts involving pedophilia, molestation, rape, and other abuses.
