part ways with Langella after an investigation into claims of “unacceptable behavior” on set, Langella penned an open letter Thursday on Deadline decrying his forced departure.“I have been canceled.
Just like that,” the 84-year-old thespian began in a lengthy statement.“In the increasing madness that currently pervades our industry, I could not have imagined that the words collateral damage would fall upon my shoulders.
They have brought with them a weight I had not expected to bear in the closing decades of my career. And along with it has come an unanticipated sense of grave danger,” he continued.The “madness” to which he’s referring is not international conflict or a deadly pandemic — but apparently “cancel culture,” which he labeled “the antithesis of democracy.”Langella wrote that the “glorious role” — one he thought would be his “last hurrah,” as Roderick Usher in Edgar Allan Poe’s classic, was taken away from him “by Netflix for what they determined to be unacceptable behavior on set.” The controversy prompted the “Frost/Nixon” actor to hire “crisis managers” and legal experts to be “professionally sympathetic at $800 per hour” — all of whom instructed him: “Apologize.
Apologize. Apologize.”He goes on to recount the alleged misconduct.“On March 25 of this year, I was performing a love scene with the actress playing my young wife.
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