A petition has been launched to have HBO remove actor Paapa Essiedu from his role as Severus Snape in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series.This Substack is reader-supported.
I have done so. Those petitions are not exactly powerful, but taking small steps to make ones disapproval known to TPTB is probably worth the 30 seconds. Now to unsubscribe from their emails again....
This seems silly. It is an eyebrow-raising casting that introduces racial tensions into scenes where there are none in the source material, but maybe he will do a good job. Plenty of different people play Romeo or Hamlet.
I have done so. Those petitions are not exactly powerful, but taking small steps to make ones disapproval known to TPTB is probably worth the 30 seconds. Now to unsubscribe from their emails again....
I want him to stay, because I want the series to fail.
This seems silly. It is an eyebrow-raising casting that introduces racial tensions into scenes where there are none in the source material, but maybe he will do a good job. Plenty of different people play Romeo or Hamlet.