Nelson Peltz, the activist investor agitating to win two Disney board seats, criticized the company’s “woke” strategy — specifically questioning Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “The Marvels,” which featured Black and women leads, respectively.

The 81-year-old Peltz, who has admitted he “never claimed” to have experience in the media business, made the comments about “The Marvels” and “Black Panther” in a recent interview with the Financial Times. “Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women?” Peltz asked rhetorically. “Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that? Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?”

“Black Panther” does not have an all-Black cast, nor does “The Marvels” have an all-female cast.

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    7 months ago

    Black Panther made a comical amount of money. The “Woke” strategy clearly worked.

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      Yeah, but old racists don’t like seeing Black people on screen, and that’s what’s really matters, doncha know.

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        7 months ago

        He’s clearly never even watched either movie, so his perception of them is probably based entirely on some far-right media interpretation he saw