Hollywood Stars Sign Open Letter Backing Jimmy Kimmel: Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston & More | THR News
Over 400 Hollywood stars, including Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, and Meryill Stre have signed an open letter by the American Civil Liberties Union condemning Disney’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live and supporting free speech. The letter states, “We the people must never accept government threats to our freedom of speech. Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country.” Some of the signitories include Selena Gomez, Robert Dairo, Jane Fonda, Olivia Rodrigo, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Diego Luna, Natalie Portman, Martin Short, Carrie Washington, and Pedro Pascal, whose trailer for the Mandalorian and Grou movie was released this morning by Disney. The letter goes on to say, “We know this moment is bigger than us and our industry. teachers, government employees, law firms, researchers, universities, students, and so many more are also facing direct attacks on their freedom of expression. The message closes by calling on all Americans to fight to defend our right to speak freely. Kimmel was suspended following a comment in his monologue about MAGA’s reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk that went viral. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr then threatened affiliate broadcast licenses if they did not take action against the talk show host. This prompted affiliate owners Sinclair and NextStar to say they would preempt the show, which spurred ABC to suspend Kimmel indefinitely. The move by the FCC and ABC has been followed by widespread condemnation, even among some Republican leaders such as Texas Senator Ted Cruz and pledges to boycott Disney and its subsidiaries. For much more on this story and all the latest updates, go to thr.com. This is the Hollywood Reporter News.
Over 400 hundred Hollywood stars including Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep have signed an open letter by the American Civil Liberties Union condemning Disney’s suspension of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ and supporting free speech.
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31 Comments
Gross! He mocked an assassinated man
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maybe if they would have watched his show, the ratings wouldnt have been so bad…………………………………..
Okay, then bring back Roseanne Barr?? There wasn’t this outrage when she tweeted a joke….
All wokes have rallied together.
Where was Streep when Weinstein had his tentacles deep inside the industry?
These actors are total losers. Free speech doesnt include Vile lies that will cause violence
Kimmel fked up. He deserved to get canned for his statement. It was extremely offensive
I want to hear her advice on free speech about as much as I want to hear about her relationship advice. Jennifer Aniston is just butt hurt because her best friend's husband got fired for being a tool.
This is basically a 400 people anti watchlist, they never cared about free speech before, what a bunch of morons over there in Hollywood.
I am really sorry for actors like Tom Cruise, who is their last movie star, he never lectures people and is always polite, no politics and entertainment only, like it should be for everyone in Hollywood!
Kamala Harris capitulates.on men in womens sports in her new book….Trump was right again huh
What's so incredibly ridiculous is, these Hollywood has beens don't have a say in what the companies decisions are to hire or fire anyone
Kimmel said the killer was Clearly a maga and that conservatives are only trying to gain political points by saying he was anything other than maga….Kimmel knew that was not true and lied to the american public on a public broadcast network…his words made me want to hurt a democrat
Hahahah does anyone care what THOSE actors say? I think it’s a reality check for all of them
Boycott everything… stay home and stop shopping America!
Greed. That's all it's about.
Nobody cares what celebrities think. Just because a person has free speech does not mean that they don't have to be responsible for the things that they say on their plat form. With free speech comes a level of responsibility on how you use that speech. This is on Jimmy Kemble.🙂
American Criminal Liberties Union.
Kimmel has always been a weasel, and his ratings were in the basement.
MERYL STREEP IS STILL BESTIES WITH HARVEY WEINSTEIN DOES THAT TELL YOU WHAT U NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THESE PEOOLE
Do any of these celebrities know Roseanne Barr?
Oh, what hypocrites they are.
How about the world boycott all Liberal Hollywood Actors.
Boycott them.
Isn't hard just don't watch any tv that employees a Hollywood LIBERAL.
They left out the republican actors that lost their jobs for free speech. Do they get their jobs back? Are you signing a paper for them to or do your friends just get to say what they want?
If anyone wishes to read the list of over 400 celebs that signed the petition supporting Jimmy Kimmel I found it online at Newsweek "Full List of Celebrities Rebuking Jimmy Kimmel Suspension in Open Letter." This will help all of us to make informed decisions on celebs we wish to support or not to support.
Too bad these useless millionaires don’t bother to idolize our police & military personnel who risk their lives to protect our cities & nations but they will use their services when needed.
Hollywood is dogshit
ACLU. American Comedy Liers Union? Kimmel willingly, blatantly lied on air.
400 losers
What no
Not one of them care about WE THE PEOPLE of this country who made their careers.. disgusting
His rights to freedom of speech were never taken away 😂 he can still say whatever he wants he just got fired😂.
They have to are
A bunch of intellectual lightweights who cherry pick their outrage.