It is suspected that the director of the series, Tim Burton, deliberately selected black actors for the roles of villain and hooligan.
As soon as the streaming service proudly announced the resounding success of its new sci-fi series on Wednesday, the project has already come under fire from the anti-racist community. The show itself and its creator, Tim Burton, were accused of racism, saying that black actors played the roles of the show’s main hooligans, the Daily Mail wrote.
In particular, actors Joy Sunday and Iman Marson got the roles of Nevermore Academy students, who really cannot be called philanthropists. Moreover, Marson’s protagonist, Lucas Walker, is the son of a corrupt mayor who owns Pilgrim’s World, a museum and theme park dedicated to the colonists.
Such a distribution of roles in social networks was reacted with angry comments.
“Tim Burton finally chooses blacks and makes them a stray villain. You can’t tell me in real life a person isn’t intolerable and racist as hell” well, why they make ALL black people on this show horrible people. Like Netflix sees nothing wrong with that? I hate Tim Burton’s racist nature, “Why is the black girl in Wednesday school an aggressive bully? Write in the comments “Only to have the good stuff, racists always have to get their dirty little hands on everything”.
However, there were also those who denied these accusations. So, Twitter user Sydney Watson noted that “the three main enemies are white”, although the two main bullies are black.
Colin Davis, another Twitter user, also supported him:
“The African-American actress and actor they’re complaining about has a really great story, and the main villains in the show are a white teenager, a white plant, a lover, and a white old pilgrim. What’s wrong with people? It’s not all about race!”
Tom Burton’s representative declined to comment on such allegations and called the accusations of racism ridiculous.
“I wouldn’t pass such a stupid request for comment to Tim,” he said.
Social media backlash has fueled Burton’s past comments about diversity on the screen, in which he said the director didn’t want to force inclusion on set.
Remember how many hours the TV series “Wednesday” was watched in the first week after it aired.
Source: Focus
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