{"id":3751,"date":"2018-07-22T19:34:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/22\/sean-gunn-tweets-in-support-of-his-brother-working-on-these-movies-made-my-brother-a-better-person\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T19:34:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T19:34:04","slug":"sean-gunn-tweets-in-support-of-his-brother-working-on-these-movies-made-my-brother-a-better-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/22\/sean-gunn-tweets-in-support-of-his-brother-working-on-these-movies-made-my-brother-a-better-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Gunn Tweets in Support of His Brother: \u2018Working on These Movies Made My Brother a Better Person\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/james-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-gunn\">James Gunn<\/a>&#8217;s firing from &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3\/\" id=\"auto-tag_guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3\">Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3<\/a>&#8221; by Disney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/sean-gunn\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sean-gunn\">Sean Gunn<\/a> \u2014 who appeared in the franchise&#8217;s first two movies \u2014 has taken to Twitter in defense of his brother.\u00a0Beginning by clarifying that &#8220;it goes without saying that I love and support my brother,&#8221; Gunn addresses his brother&#8217;s off-color humor and asserts that &#8220;working on these movies made my brother a better person, and they made me one too. I&#8217;m proud of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/james-gunn-petition-disney-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3-1201986596\/\" title=\"Petition Calling on Disney to Re-Hire James Gunn Earns Thousands of Signatures Within Hours\">Petition Calling on Disney to Re-Hire James Gunn Earns Thousands of Signatures Within Hours<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>The younger Gunn isn&#8217;t alone in his support of his writer\/director sibling, as fellow &#8220;Guardians&#8221; actor Dave Bautista tweeted yesterday that he&#8217;s &#8220;not OK&#8221; with what&#8217;s happened and a petition calling on Disney to re-hire him has already garnered more than 53,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2018\/07\/james-gunn-tweets-dave-bautista-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1201986383\/\" title=\"\u2018Guardians of the Galaxy\u2019 Star Dave Bautista Is \u2018Not OK\u2019 With James Gunn Being Fired\">\u2018Guardians of the Galaxy\u2019 Star Dave Bautista Is \u2018Not OK\u2019 With James Gunn Being Fired<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2. Since he was a kid, it was clear he had a desire (maybe destiny) to be an artist, tell stories, find his voice through comics, films, his band. The struggle to find that voice was sometimes clunky, misguided, or downright stupid, and sometimes wonderful, moving, and hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Gunn (@seangunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seangunn\/status\/1020786566443171840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4. I saw firsthand as he went from worrying about &#8220;softening his edge&#8221; for a larger audience to realizing that his &#8220;edge&#8221; wasn&#8217;t as useful of a tool as he thought it was. That his gift for storytelling was something better.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Gunn (@seangunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seangunn\/status\/1020786568808853504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">6. In many respects this change in my brother was reflected in the change that the Guardians go through. I&#8217;ve heard my brother say many times that when Quill rallies the team with &#8220;this is our chance to give a shit&#8221;&#8211;to care&#8211;that it&#8217;s the pep talk he himself needed to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Gunn (@seangunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seangunn\/status\/1020786570708881408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">8. This isn&#8217;t new information, by the way. It&#8217;s all stuff that James has explained many times in interviews, in more detail and more eloquently. It&#8217;s not some new spin. It&#8217;s always been part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Gunn (@seangunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seangunn\/status\/1020786572558577664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">10. Working on those movies made my brother a better person, and they made me one too. I&#8217;m proud of that. Peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Gunn (@seangunn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seangunn\/status\/1020786574731218945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">July 21, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following James Gunn&#8217;s firing from &#8220;Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3&#8221; by Disney, Sean Gunn \u2014 who appeared in the franchise&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-Yv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}