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As Gunn gets ready to release his new DC movie 'The Suicide Squad,' the director is opening about his 2018 Marvel firing, his eventual rehiring a year later and his feelings around "cancel culture."

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00:02A dog? What kind of dog do you think it is, mate?

00:04I'm gonna go with Afghan hound.

00:06Oh my god, is it a werewolf?

00:08Yo, they sent me this to a werewolf? Yo, let me help!

00:10As filmmaker James Gunn gets ready to release his new DC movie, The Suicide Squad,

00:15the director is opening up about his 2018 Marvel firing,

00:18his eventual rehiring a year later, and his feelings around cancel culture.

00:22Back in 2018, Gunn was fired as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

00:26after a number of conservative personalities resurfaced old tweets

00:30in which the filmmaker made jokes about pedophilia and rape.

00:33In a new interview with the New York Times,

00:35Gunn revealed that it was Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige

00:38who ultimately delivered the news that he had been let go.

00:41Gunn recalled,

00:55Gunn remembers feeling like his career was over.

00:57In a statement released the day of his firing,

00:59the director said that he understood the studio's decision

01:02and regretted posting the old tweets because, quote,

01:04they don't reflect the person I am today or have been for some time.

01:08Following the news, the Guardians of the Galaxy themselves

01:10were among many who came out in support of Gunn,

01:13even penning a letter advocating for his reinstatement.

01:16He eventually was rehired in March 2019.

01:19So we're saving the galaxy again?

01:21Yep.

01:22When asked whether he felt he was a victim of, quote,

01:24cancel culture, Gunn explained,

01:26It's such a bigger issue than that.

01:28Because cancel culture also is people like Harvey Weinstein,

01:31who should be canceled.

01:32People who have gotten canceled and then remain canceled.

01:35Most of those people deserve that.

01:37He continued,

01:38The paparazzi are not just the people on the streets.

01:40They're the people combing Twitter for past sins.

01:42All of that sucks.

01:43It's painful.

01:44But some of it is accountability.

01:46And that part of it is good.

01:47It's just about finding that balance.

01:49For more on this story, go to THR.com.

01:52For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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