No it isn't. Your employer is not obligated to respect your rights to free speech.
It wasn’t racist.
Depends on your point of view.
> “No it isn’t. Your employer is not obligated to respect your rights to free speech.”
Iger is not her employer. She’s a corporation, not an employee. She’s worth more than $80 million.
Iger and Redstone have the right to terminate her contract according to the terms of the contract. All such contracts have boilerplate provisions that pertain to cancellation for cause, for issues that bring discredit, etc.
But she has the right to Free Speech.
And Iger/Redstone have the right to terminate her, But they don’t have the right to slander her. Their slander causes damage to her corporation. It’s actionable.
She would sue them because what she said is not racist. They said in the press that her comments were racist, No they were not. The Planet of the Apes has main characters that are White Apes, the film is not a racist film. The film’s theme is that the apes in the film were incapable of rendering justice, similar to Islam. Her statement could be construed as anti-Islamic, but not racist.
My bet is she won’t sue them because she doesn’t need them. They need her more than she needs them. Their enterprise is dying, their brands are dying. Barr is rich beyond what most Americans can even dream. She has and will continue to have a fine life. Her contract termination is actually a blessing because of the contract’s principals who are out of touch, biased and bigoted. Eventually, with persons like Iger and Redstone, there would have been a bumping of heads. That it happened sooner is not surprising.