'I was looking for the best actors,' Rick Riordan wrote. 'Leah Jeffries is Annabeth Chase.'
Popular author Rick Riordan is raining thunderbolts of scorn on critics complaining about a Black actor being cast as a daughter of Athena in the upcoming Disney Plus series"Percy Jackson and the Olympians."
Riordan has written more than 20 books for young readers, and there are more than 100 million copies of his books in print. In his blog post, he carefully dismantled the arguments against the casting decision. "Let’s examine that statement. You are judging her appropriateness for this role solely and exclusively on how she looks. She is a Black girl playing someone who was described in the books as white. ... Friends, that isAfter the casting was announced May 5, Leah took to Instagram and said she was"so excited" about her new role.
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