{"id":462044,"date":"2026-04-30T20:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462044\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:43:15","slug":"evangeline-lilly-blasts-disney-for-marvel-layoffs-ai-pivot-shame-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/462044\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangeline Lilly Blasts Disney for Marvel Layoffs, AI Pivot: Shame on You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEvangeline Lilly<\/a>, who plays Hope van Dyne\/Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, took to Instagram to blast Disney for firing Marvel employees amid the recent layoffs<\/a> that saw 1,000 staffers let go from the company at large. Lilly was particularly outraged over the axing<\/a> of Marvel\u2019s director of visual development Andy Park, who was a member of the Marvel Studios<\/a> family for 16 years.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI reached out to my good friend Andy Park, who was the genius behind creating the original Wasp super-suit and concept drawings, and I said, \u2018Is this true? Is this really what\u2019s happening?’\u201d Lilly said in a video post reacting to reports of Marvel layoffs amid a larger Disney pivot to AI. \u201cHe said, \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s true.\u2019 I can\u2019t quite believe that\u2026 that Disney has let go of the artists who brought the Marvel Universe to life through their genius and that the people who invented these characters and who designed them are being replaced by AI. AI that will take their designs and take what they created and use it to create iterations of that. I am so sorry, Andy. I am so sorry to every one of the artists who were let go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLilly was far more blunt in her Instagram caption, where she wrote: \u201cDisney,\u00a0SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhere are the laws that REMOVE all human art from the AI bank?!?\u201d she asked. \u201cWhy do they get to steal our brilliance and use it to make executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their robots go hungry?? Disgusting. California lawmakers\u2026where are you?!?!?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLilly also saluted the Marvel artists \u201cwho designed and brought to life the glory days of Marvel\u2026 I was there. I know what you did. I know how passionately you worked round the clock to make magic happen. You are the magicians, no matter what the Wizards of our new Oz make it look like going forward. I will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tPark announced April 20<\/a> that he was being laid off at Marvel and wrote on social media: \u201cI was there at the start of a team that broke the mold. 16 years, 40+ films, and 15 films led as Director of Visual Development, I couldn\u2019t be prouder of the history we made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSources told Variety at the time that Marvel plans to keep a small visual development team, hiring people on a project by project basis, and remains committed to working with visual development artists on its projects.<\/p>\n

\n\tLilly debuted as Hope van Dyne in 2015\u2019s \u201cAnt-Man\u201d before reprising the character in 2018\u2019s \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp.\u201d She appeared in 2019\u2019s \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d and returned in 2023\u2019s \u201cAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.\u201d Watch Lilly\u2019s video calling out Disney in Instagram post below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evangeline Lilly, who plays Hope van Dyne\/Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, took to Instagram to blast Disney…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[6724,18,117,203116,19,17,1891,327],"class_list":{"0":"post-462044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-evangeline-lilly","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-marvel-studios","15":"tag-movies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}