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\n\tTom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Bateman and Martin Short are among the members of the Hollywood community who have signed an open letter with the American Civil Liberties Union protesting Disney\u2019s decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show<\/a> off of its shedule and warning of its ramifications on Americans\u2019 right to speak freely.<\/p>\n \n\tThe letter says that efforts to pressure artists, journalists, and others with retaliation for their speech \u201cstrike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country\u201d and closes by calling on all Americans to defend the right to speak freely.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe now find ourselves in a modern McCarthy era, facing exactly the type of heavy-handed government censorship our Constitution rightfully forbids. The silencing of Jimmy Kimmel and jawboning of media outlets through lawsuits and threats to their licenses evoke dark memories of the 1950s,\u201d said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which organized the letter, in a prepared statement. \u201cWe must remember, however, that Senator McCarthy was ultimately disgraced and neutralized once Americans mobilized and stood up to him. We must do the same today because, together, our voices are louder and, together, we will fight to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe list of signatories also includes Ariana DeBose, Jane Fonda, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Regina King, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Diego Luna, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Natalie Portman, among others.<\/p>\n \n\tDisney said last week Disney\u2019s ABC<\/a> that ot would take Kimmel<\/a>\u2018s popular late-night show off its schedule \u201cindefinitely\u201d after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S.,\u00a0Nexstar<\/a>\u00a0Media, said it intended to pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist\u00a0Charlie Kirk<\/a>. Nexstar said Wednesday that it \u201cstrongly objects\u201d to Kimmel\u2019s comments, made during last Monday\u2019s broadcast of his program. Sinclair, another large station owner, has said it also intends to keep Kimmel\u2019s program off of its stations. <\/p>\n \n\tThe list includes some actors whose work is distributed by Disney. Martin Short, for example, is a star of the Hulu series \u201cOnly Murders in the Building,\u201d in which Meryl Streep has a recurring role. Both Florence Pugh and Julia Louis-Dreyfus starred in the recent Marvel release \u201cThunderbolts,\u201d has also signed the letter. Jamie Lee Curtis has a prominent recurring role in the FX series, \u201cThe Bear.\u201d Kathryn Hahn recently starred in the Marvel streaming series \u201cAgatha All Along.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Hanks, Jennifer Aniston, Meryl Streep, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jason Bateman and Martin Short are among the members of the Hollywood community who have signed an open letter with the American Civil Liberties Union protesting Disney\u2019s decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show off of its shedule and warning of its ramifications on Americans\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2041257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[24120,377818,23060,373300],"class_list":["post-2041256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-abc","tag-aclu","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-walt-disney-co"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/400-Celebrities-Join-With-ACLU-to-Protest-Disneys-Kimmel-Suspension.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2041257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}