

According to Deadline, Mark Ruffalo (Just Like Heaven, Spider-Man: Brand New Day) joined fellow Marvel actor, Tatiana Maslany (The Monkey, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law), in speaking out against Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the FCC pressured the company to do so. The longtime Marvel actor, who has portrayed The Hulk since 2012’s The Avengers, announced that Disney’s stock price had fallen 7% since Wednesday, and will continue to drop if the show is canceled altogether.
“It’s going to go down a lot further if they cancel the show. Disney does not want to be the ones that broke America,” Ruffalo said via Deadline in a post on Threads. Ruffalo has been a longtime human rights advocate and a critic of President Trump.
Deadline noted that Disney’s stock prices did indeed drop after last Wednesday when the news of Kimmel went officially to the news stations. The stock price reached $112 per share, an all-time low for Disney. The stock price averaged around $116 per share. Since the drop, the price has been slowly increasing.
The ABC network has indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! after Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, discussed taking action against Kimmel for comments he made about Tyler Robinson, the alleged shooter who killed conservative figurehead Charile Kirk on September 10. According to Deadline, Carr commented on a podcast, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Deadline also noted that the second-largest station operator and the largest ABC partner, Sinclair Broadcast Group, said that the suspension should not be lifted until Kimmel made a formal apology to Kirk’s family, along with a donation to Kirk’s conservative nonprofit organization, Turning Point USA. At the same time, Trump celebrated Kimmel’s cancellation, as he did with the cancellation of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Trump has even mentioned Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon as next on his list to cancel.
Ruffalo and Maslany join plenty of other Kimmel supporters, including Jay Leno (The Tonight Show, You Bet Your Life), Stephen Colbert (The Daily Show, I Am America ( And So Can You!)), and Jon Stewart (The Nanny, The Problem with Jon Stewart).
