“To be honest — and as someone who kind of was, you know, kicked off about the prequels when they came out, thefanbase really seems to be the most kind of toxic at the moment,” said Pegg, 52, who had a brief cameo in 2015’sAnd Pegg knows this all too well because he was part of the lynch mob that went afterprequels with extreme prejudice, notably the Jar Jar Binks character played by Ahmed Best in 1999’s“I’ve apologised for the things I said about, you know, Jar Jar Binks,” said Pegg.
“Because, of course, there was a f***ing actor involved. He was getting a lot of flack and … it was a human being,” he added. “And because it got a lot of hate, he suffered, you know, and I feel terrible about being part of that.” Daisy Ridley, Kelly Marie Tran, and John Boyega have all bore the brunt of spiteful fans. For Ridley and Tran, the hate campaign got so bad that they were forced to quit social media.
More recently, newcomer Moses Ingram was targeted by haters for her role as Jedi hunter Reva Sevander in the Disney+ limited series. Responding to the backlash, Lucasfilm said in a statement, “We are proud to welcome Moses Ingram to theIf anyone intends to make her feel in any way unwelcome, we have only one thing to say: we resist.”followers are a more enlightened group. “I find the[is] about diversity.
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