How Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd, and Hayden Christensen were all treated always appalled me. I didn’t like their characters or think much of their acting, but so what? And ‘fans’ haven’t learned at all, because they did the same thing to Kelly Marie Tran, the first young Asian woman I had seen in a mainstream film who wasn’t sexualised, a baddie, and/ or victimised to make space for a white hero.
People can be exceedingly cruel. Kelly Marie Train def got a piece of that. "The fans" are too nebulous to even define, which is part of the problem in identifying who is at fault for these online campaigns. Regardless, the victims of that cruelty go on redemptive quests of their own, even though they were wronged...not the wrong-doers
How Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd, and Hayden Christensen were all treated always appalled me. I didn’t like their characters or think much of their acting, but so what? And ‘fans’ haven’t learned at all, because they did the same thing to Kelly Marie Tran, the first young Asian woman I had seen in a mainstream film who wasn’t sexualised, a baddie, and/ or victimised to make space for a white hero.
People can be exceedingly cruel. Kelly Marie Train def got a piece of that. "The fans" are too nebulous to even define, which is part of the problem in identifying who is at fault for these online campaigns. Regardless, the victims of that cruelty go on redemptive quests of their own, even though they were wronged...not the wrong-doers