Actor Mark Hamill and director James Mangold have announced their support for a filming boycott in Georgia as a response to the state’s newly enacted voting integrity law.
“I will not direct a film in Georgia,” Mangold, the director of the next Indiana Jones movie, tweeted on the day that the state’s Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the controversial legislation into law.
I will not direct a film in Georgia.
— Mangold (@mang0ld) March 26, 2021
Mangold followed up by telling fellow director Rod Lurie that concern about how a film boycott would negatively affect the workers in the industry “sounds like a classical right wing argument.”
“Georgia has been using cash to steal movie jobs from other states that allow people to vote,” he tweeted. “I don’t want to play there. I’m not telling anyone else what to do.”
You do what you feel is best but to me this is a classical right wing argument against almost everything. Georgia has been using cash to steal movie jobs from other states that allow people to vote. I don’t want to play there. I’m not telling anyone else what to do.
— Mangold (@mang0ld) March 26, 2021
Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker in the iconic Star Wars franchise, agreed with Mangold and tweeted his support for the boycott, saying, “Absolutely!”
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— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) March 27, 2021
Democrats have insisted that the newly passed legislation amounts to Jim Crow-era discrimination that will prevent minorities from voting, while Republicans maintain that the safeguards are necessary to prevent voter fraud.
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden was fact-checked by the Washington Post, which gave his claim that in-person voting hours will be slashed “Four Pinocchios” and suggested the bill would, in fact, expand voting access.
