He's had a difficult time because he began at the beginning of 2020, which of course was just when the pandemic was taking off. He annoyed Scarlett Johansson by moving one of her films straight to streaming without compensating her enough in her view. And then he mishandled some of the politics as well. Florida passed this bill that don't say gay law, which was seen as a homophobic piece of legislation. But Disney really mishandled its response to this. It initially said that it wasn't going to get involved. A lot of people then said, actually, it should. And so did a U-turn and said,. actually, it would get involved and oppose this. This
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