Star Wars actor said he was ‘not so open to working with Disney’ in interview two days after the company suspended Jimmy Kimmel
Oscar Isaac has said he is “not so open to working with Disney” in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, with the Star Wars actor saying he’d only consider working with Disney again if the company doesn’t “succumb to fascism”.
Asked in a GQ interview published Monday whether he’d consider returning to the Star Wars franchise, in which he played X-wing fighter pilot Poe Dameron across three films from 2015 to 2019, Isaac said, “Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great … if that happens, then yeah, I’d be open to having a conversation about a galaxy far away. Or any number of other things.”
GQ noted the Isaac interview, published on Monday, was conducted two days after Kimmel was suspended, and four days before he returned to air on 23 September.
Kimmel was suspended from late-night TV by ABC and Disney in September over comments he made about the Trump administration’s response to the killing of Charlie Kirk on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, including: “The Maga gang [is] desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”
