Joss Whedon Had No Excuse To Mistreat Female Stars Says Buffy Actor
Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Danny Strong has stated that series creator Joss Whedon has no excuse for allegedly mistreating his female stars. These days, Whedon is perhaps more known for his work on The Avengers or finishing up the original cut of Zack Snyder's Justice League, however, his career initially took off with his massively successful TV series Buffy. Buffy stars Sarah Michelle Gellar and tells the tale of a lone teenager who is chosen to defend the world from vampires and other creatures. The series ran from 1997 to 2003 and is still popular to this day.
In 2021, Buffy alum Charisma Carpenter claimed through a series of tweets that Whedon had been both verbally and physically abusive towards many of the female members of the cast and crew of Buffy and its spin-off series, Angel. Carpenter's allegations inspired many other people to come forward from across all of Whedon's projects over the years to support Carpenter, as well as share their own similar stories working with the writer/director. New stories are still surfacing, some as recent as Whedon's work behavior on Justice League.
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In a new book by Evan Ross Katz entitled Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How ‘Buffy’ Staked Our Hearts, Strong, who played Jonathan on the series, shared his thoughts on Whedon's actions (as reported by IndieWire). Strong has admitted that his Buffy experience was positive overall, however, he did point out that the people who experienced Whedon's supposed wrath were predominantly attractive women. Strong has gone on to say that it was almost like seeing Whedon in the mental state of a teenage nerd «who's angry that the pretty girls didn't like him.» See his full
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