A new rumor alleges that Paapa Essiedu, who was cast to play Severus Snape in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV show, has been sacked.This Substack is reader-supported.
I don't believe this is true but I think that this is the studio floating the idea and seeing how it would play out on social media. At this point, they will never appease the wokies that have sworn off Rowling, so they might as well just make this as close to the source material as possible and if they <<really>> need to inject more diversity or whatever, they can give more screen time to Dean, Lee, Cho and the Parvati twins in some slice of life filler episodes than tank the whole show to change one of the most important characters in the show to get right.
If people think this is about diversity or inclusion at this point… well it’s not. It’s about re-writing English history and erasing European culture for the lovely globohomo technocratic utopia.
I kind of feel bad for the actor. I mean Paapa Esseidu probably grew up reading the orginal material and was probably excited when he got cast in the show only to marred in Controversy because he isnt book accurate. and now its probably gonna dog hjm wherever he goes moving forward
I don't believe this is true but I think that this is the studio floating the idea and seeing how it would play out on social media. At this point, they will never appease the wokies that have sworn off Rowling, so they might as well just make this as close to the source material as possible and if they <<really>> need to inject more diversity or whatever, they can give more screen time to Dean, Lee, Cho and the Parvati twins in some slice of life filler episodes than tank the whole show to change one of the most important characters in the show to get right.
If people think this is about diversity or inclusion at this point… well it’s not. It’s about re-writing English history and erasing European culture for the lovely globohomo technocratic utopia.
It should be called Diversity and Exclusion (of white people)
Sure, and Kathleen Kennedy is getting fired, too.
I kind of feel bad for the actor. I mean Paapa Esseidu probably grew up reading the orginal material and was probably excited when he got cast in the show only to marred in Controversy because he isnt book accurate. and now its probably gonna dog hjm wherever he goes moving forward
This is sad, black Snape would be so cool.