'Percy Jackson' author Rick Riordan has voiced support for young actress Leah Save Jeffries after backlash over her casting in the upcoming Disney+ adaptation of his work.
Well, we’re at it again. Last week, Disney announced that, after a long casting process, two main characters of the upcoming series Percy Jackson and the Olympians had been cast. Joining previously announced Walker Scobell are Aryan Simhadri as satyr Grover Underwood and Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, the semi-godess daughter of Athena.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Novel series author Rick Riordan also seems to think along these lines, as he published on his personal website – which he uses to provide regular updates on his projects – an angry and extensive open letter directed at whoever was calling Disney and himself out for casting Jeffries.
In his post, Riordan states that “if you’re still upset about the casting of this marvelous trio, then it doesn’t matter how many times you have read the books. You didn’t learn anything from them.” Riordan makes the case that the Percy Jackson stories are hardly about ethnicity and the color of one’s skin, but about the power in plurality.
Just a few years back, no matter how good a Black actor was, they would never be cast as a character that was supposed to be Caucasian. You can count on your fingers how many life-changing roles were given to Black kids, especially in world-famous franchises. And of course this doesn’t only happen with kids. The first-ever big budget, mega-blockbuster super-hero movie featuring a predominantly Black cast and crew only came to screens four years ago.
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