Ayo Edebiri, the actress perhaps best known for her Golden Globe-winning performance in the critically acclaimed FX cooking drama The Bear, responded to Elon Musk sharing a rumor that she’s starring in the next Pirates of the Caribbean film by blasting the billionaire DOGE chief as an “idiot” and a “fascist.”
“Just remembering when I got some of the most insane death threats and racial slurs of my life (idk if it’s the #1 moment, but for sure top 3) for a fake reboot of a movie I had never even heard of because of this man LMAO,” Edebiri wrote in an Instagram post.
“So not only is he a double s**g h**l-ing fascist, he’s an idiot. but anyway,” she wrote, pointing to the left-wing fueled hoax that Musk did a Nazi salute during President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Edebiri certainly didn’t deserve whatever vitriol she took over rumors she’d replace Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. But man, it certainly sounds like a move Disney would make. Variety had it that Barbie star Margot Robbie was slated to lead her own Pirates film. A lady Captain Jack? That’s on brand for Disney. This is the same studio whose animated Disney+ series Baymax featured a menstruating transgender man who offers advice to women about which maxi pad to buy — “the one with wings.”
Edebiri’s “Elon is an idiot” line echos that of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and recently comedian Bill Burr.
