I think they’re feeling optimistic about it if they’re including him. Otherwise I can easily see them replacing him and inserting the new actor into the already shot footage, like how Ridley Scott did when he replaced Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World.

It’s lightly criticizes and gleefully satires the real world’s patriarchal structure, so some people (the vast majority being right-leaning men) are saying it’s anti men and supports misandry. It definitely isn’t and doesn’t though.