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Ayo Edebiri recalled receiving the “most insane demise threats and racial slurs” after Elon Musk unfold misinformation about her supposed position in a “faux reboot” of the Pirates of the Caribbean.
Final February, Musk reshared a publish on X that falsely claimed Disney was contemplating 29-year-old Edebiri as a substitute for Johnny Depp within the franchise’s upcoming Pirates 6 film.
“Disney sucks,” the X proprietor and tech billionaire captioned the since-deleted publish.
“Simply remembering once I received a few of the most insane demise threats and racial slurs of my life (idk if it’s the #1 second, however for positive high 3) for a faux reboot of a film I had by no means even heard of due to this man,” Edebiri wrote on her Instagram Story on Tuesday.
Sharing a screenshot of Musk’s unique tweet, she added: “LMAO. So not solely is he double s**g h**l-ing fascist, he’s an fool however anyway. Life is, in fact, a present.”
The Impartial has contacted Musk’s consultant for remark.
Disney introduced in late 2019 that it might be transferring ahead in growing a script for a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot. On the time, it hadn’t formally been introduced whether or not Depp, who led the primary 5 films, could be connected to the brand new undertaking.
Nonetheless, in 2022, throughout his notorious defamation trial towards his ex-wife Amber Heard, Depp testified that her statements in a 2018 Washington Put up op-ed — implying he had abused her — had damage his profession. He claimed that he had been dropped from Pirates six days after the op-ed was printed.
Depp finally walked away victorious, with the jury ordering Heard to pay him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. Heard was additionally awarded $2 million in punitive damages in her countersuit towards Depp.
Amid the trial, Pirates producer Jerry Bruckheimer informed The Instances that, for the time being, Disney had no plans of bringing Depp again as Captain Jack Sparrow. He did, nevertheless, add that “the longer term is but to be determined.”
Nonetheless, there was no replace about whether or not Disney has modified its stance on Depp’s exclusion from the forthcoming reboot, regardless of Bruckheimer’s private desire to carry Depp again.
“It’s a reboot, but when it was as much as me, he could be in it,” Bruckheimer informed Entertainment Weekly in 2024. “I really like him. He’s a great buddy. He’s a tremendous artist and he’s a singular look. He created Captain Jack. That was not on the web page, that was him doing just a little Pepé Le Pew and Keith Richards. That was his interpretation of Jack Sparrow.”
