![]() ![]() Viewers, seemingly outraged at the fictional character’s demographics, “ review-bombed” IMDb by the thousands with 1-star scores. Marvel starring Iman Vellani as the show’s Pakistani-Muslim superhero. Again, someone else on the project - in this case, Obi-Wan Kenobi lead Ewan McGregor - begged people to stop bullying her. She shared some of the comments on her personal Instagram account. Weeks later, the actress playing Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Reva - Moses Ingram - appeared for the first time in the series and was immediately bombarded with hundreds of threats and racist insults. ![]() She is a Black girl playing someone who was described in the books as white. “Let’s examine that statement…You are judging her appropriateness for this role solely and exclusively on how she looks. ‘It is not racist to want an actor who is accurate to the book’s description of the character,’” Riordan wrote. The harassment was so egregious that Percy Jackson author Rick Riordan wrote a blog post imploring these so-called fans to stop being racist: The criticism hurled at the child actor’s casting was immediate - some complaints on social media went so far as to best be described as slurs. In May 2022, Disney announced the casting of Leah Jeffries, a 12-year-old Black girl, as the demi-god daughter of the Greek goddess Athena in the new series adaptation of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Racism gone viralĪ promotional poster for Get Christie Love! Universal Television While some studios are fighting back and working to protect actors of color, experts say they still not doing enough to protect and support their non-white and non-male actors. In the five decades since Get Christie Love! debuted, representation of non-white actors across almost all television and movie genres is sorely lacking - and even when casts do include actors of color, audiences can seem to turn against them. (When Beyoncé shouts, “You’re under arrest, Sugah!” in Austin Powers: Goldmember, she’s quoting Christie Love’s catchphrase.) Get Christie Love! couldn’t overcome the prejudices of its time, even if it went on to inspire future cinematic classics, from Reservoir Dogs to Austin Powers. Kramer tells Inverse that while private detective and police series were hugely popular in the ‘70s, “the programs were full of racist stereotypes where the few Black characters were the criminals.” “I remember fans making fun of the show, its title, and the actress playing the lead cop,” recalls Michael Kramer, a communications professor at St. In January of 1974, Get Christie Love! premiered on ABC, making history as the second TV show to star a Black woman (and the first in a show about crime-fighting). ![]()
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