Overview
- The controversy began with anonymous Instagram stories alleging animators on the Netflix series Due spicci were paid very low fees and worked intense hours.
- Movimenti Production publicly called the reports defamatory and announced it would take legal action against the anonymous allegations.
- The claims reached Parliament after Senator Maurizio Gasparri filed a question to the Ministry of Labour, increasing political scrutiny of the case.
- On Tuesday, June 2, Michele Rech (Zerocalcare) published an Instagram video saying he is the series' author but not responsible for hiring or contracts and that no workers had directly complained to him.
- Zerocalcare and industry groups urged a wider discussion of systemic issues in Italian animation, including project-based contracts and freelance precarity, as a possible outcome of the row.