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Evangeline Lilly Slams Disney Over Massive Layoffs
Evangeline Lilly took Disney to task on Thursday in the wake of the company's announcement earlier this month that it would be laying off around 1,000 employees...
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The 46-year-old actress, who has starred in four films for the Disney-owned Marvel Studios, slammed the media giant's efforts to cull its staff, saying that the layoffs would only 'make executives rich' at the expense of artists in a fiery post on Instagram.
'Where are the laws that REMOVE all human art from the bank?!? Why do they get to steal our brilliance and use it to make executives rich while the artists responsible for feeding their go hungry??,' Lilly wrote in her lengthy caption.
'Disgusting. lawmakers...where are you?!?!?' she added in a call for help.
The Daily Mail has reached out to the Walt Disney Company for comment but has not yet received a response.
Lilly – who in 2024 – also offered her support to the visual effects artists at Marvel, who are influential in crafting the look of the Ant-Man films, which she has starred in with .
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Evangeline Lilly, 46, blasted Disney in an Instagram post on Thursday in response to reports earlier this month that the media giant would lay off around 1,000 employees
The actress, who starred with Paul Rudd (L) in the Ant-Man franchise, said the layoffs would only 'make executives rich' at the expense of artists; Rudd, Kathryn Newton and Lilly pictured in 2023's Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania
'To the @marvelstudios artists who designed and brought to life the glory days of Marvel...I salute you 🫡,' she continued. '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,' Lilly wrote. 'I will never forget.
'@disney SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away,' she added in a fury.
She appeared opposite Paul Rudd as Hope van Dyne — the daughter of Michael Douglas's Hank Pym and Michelle Pfeiffer's Janet van Dyne — in 2015's critically acclaimed Ant-Man and its sequels, as well as 2019's Avengers: Endgame; pictured in Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania
Disney's new CEO, Josh D'Amaro claimed 'the fast-moving pace of our industries' was responsible for the decision to fire so many employees in a memo, according to Variety
He added that the layoffs were intended to 'streamline our operations in various parts of the company to ensure we deliver the world-class creativity and innovation our fans value and expect from Disney.'
The company had already laid off over 8,000 employees since Iger returned to the top job in 2022, following the brief and tumultuous stint of his first successor, Bob Chapek.
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According to the publication, Disney employed around 230,000 employees, both full- and part-time, as of September 2025.
Disney had roughly 230,000 full and part-time employees in September 2025.
According to Deadline, the current round of layoffs amounts to around eight percent of Marvel's workforce.
The New York–based Marvel Entertainment and Burbank-based Marvel Studios were both reportedly hit particularly hard by layoffs, which touched nearly every department.
However, the layoffs are reportedly particularly devastating for the visual effects department.
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According to the publication, only a small group of employees have been left, and instead of doing a significant amount of the visual effects work within Marvel studios, those employees will have to contract out the work on future films to other visual effects firms.
Layoffs have also been widespread throughout media companies in recent years, and a large round of firings is expected if Paramount is able to finalize its deal to purchase Warner Bros.
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