Egyptian-American comic Bassem Youssef has stirred up social media recently after claims he misplaced a task in James Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy” as a consequence of his vocal help of Palestine.
Youssef went viral final yr following an look on “Piers Morgan: Uncensored” used darkish humor to criticise Israel.
In a brand new interview with Salon this week, Youssef asserted that his function in “Superman: Legacy’” was written out due to his Professional-Palestine remarks within the Morgan interview:
“I used to be solid within the film, ‘Superman,’ after which they informed me, ‘We modified the script,’ after this Piers Morgan interview. I need to assume good religion. I need to know, I need to consider that that is true. I used to be a little bit bit bitter, and I wished to go, I used to be like, ‘Oh, screw DC, screw Warner Bros.’ However then I perceive, I perceive the emotional burden that these individuals have.”
Selection has since reported that in keeping with their sources, Youssef’s character was within the script and Gunn talked to Youssef about probably taking part in the function.
Nevertheless a proper supply was by no means made, and talks by no means went additional as a result of the character was dropped from the script earlier than the strikes began. The adjustments to the story have been made previous to Hamas’ assault in Israel.
Gunn has subsequently carried out a posting on X confirming the commerce’s model of occasions, saying “That is correct.”
All this comes simply weeks earlier than filming on the film is about to get underway in Atlanta.