The author of the books about Percy Jackson attacked the "racists" dissatisfied with color actors in the series from Disney

Recently, Disney presented the public with the main characters of the series “Percy Jackson and Olympians” and is now preparing for filming. That's just the fans of the book cycle have questions.

No, not to the main role of Waker Skobell (“Adam Project”), but to Lea Jeffris (“Empire”) and Aryan Simhadri - Annabeth Chase and Gebuvera Anderwood. First of all, apparently, the particularly zealous fans began to poison the girl, for whom Persia, who participated in the casting on the rights of producer Rick Riordan, personally stood up.

Disney found Percy to Jackson friends. Rick Rirdan is delighted, but what will fans say?

The writer was born by the wall of the text on his website. He called the future“role -playing model for the new generation of girls” _. Riordan recalled that a year ago he warned of the selection of actors according to Disney standards, including diversity and inclusiveness, and therefore all candidates were considered without looking back on the floor, race and sexual orientation.

It was important for the author that the actors reflect the essence of the characters, while the issue of external similarity was secondary to him. A year has gone to search for the best of the best. And Riordan does not care that Jeffris and Simhadri have nothing to do with the descriptions of the heroes from his own novels, because their message is simple:“difference_ - li” .

If you reduce outpourings on the topic of modern values and pride in the choice made, then everyone who is worried about color actors and their mismatch in the readers in the imagination over the years of the images,“racists” _, no matter how tried to deny it.