'It feels very odd to me that you and your company would consider hiring someone with Mr. Lasseter’s pattern of misconduct,' said Thompson, who quit a movie last week due to his involvement.
wrote a searing letter to an animation studio as she quit a film in response to their hiring of John Lasseter, the Pixar co-founder accused of sexual misconduct.
According to the Times, Thompson, a two-time Oscar winner, began coming up with a way to remove herself from the film the moment the studio hired Lasseter in January.
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