“What would its impact have on our employees, on our shareholders and our customers? “I had to contend with this a lot, and the filter that I used to determine whether we should or should not weigh in considered a few factors,” Iger said. In the interview, Iger talked of going public on issues like climate change and immigration during his 15-year tenure as CEO of the Mouse House, which ended when he stepped down in February 2020, handing the reins to Chapek. “So I happened to feel, and I tweeted an opinion about the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill in Florida. It’s about right and wrong,” Iger told CNN’s Chris Wallace in an interview that was taped last month. “A lot of these issues are not necessarily political.

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