She said she instructed her employees to leave them up after roughly 75 of them were taken down. She said she had just lost $400 bonus from the company after it dinged her on an inspection of her pumps, which still featured the stickers.Ĭoy told Fox News she is more than happy to miss out on the quarterly money, as she is tired of having the stickers removed. Watters interviewed Coy, whose gas station uses BP fuel. He added, “People are frustrated and they’re having some fun.” “It seems like a pretty innocent way to voice your frustration with Biden’s failed energy policies.” “You might have seen one of these stickers plastered on your gas pump recently, Biden pointing at the pump as the price continues tick up and up with ‘I did that’ stamped underneath,” Watters said. You’re just wasting time.” by AnonymousĪ Wisconsin woman named Pam Coy who owns a gas station was recently penalized $400 by the energy company BP for failing to remove them from her pumps, the Jesse Watters Primetime host reported. In a separate Instagram video, Jeffries also responded to the backlash: “To whoever is hating - stop doing that. We took a year to do this process thoroughly and find the best of the best.
“I have been clear, as the author, that I was looking for the best actors to inhabit and bring to life the personalities of these characters, and that physical appearance was secondary for me. “The casting process was long, intense, massive and exhaustive. We did that,” Rick Riordan wrote in his blog post. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to disability, gender, race and ethnicity, age, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis prohibited by law. “I was quite clear a year ago, when we announced our first open casting, that we would be following Disney’s company policy on nondiscrimination: We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. Grover is a satyr disguised as a 12-year-old boy, who will always jump in to defend his friends even if it means putting himself in danger. She is a daughter of Athena who becomes Percy’s guide at Camp Half-Blood, a training ground for demigods, while he helps her navigate the human world. Percy embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to find the lightning bolt and return it to Olympus.Īnnabeth and Grover are his two biggest allies in the books. He is just coming to terms with his newfound powers when the sky god, Zeus, accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Percy Jackson and the Olympians centers on the title character, a 12-year-old who learns he is a demigod.
Leave Leah alone.” She also noted that Disney and Jeffries’ family are working to restore her TikTok account. Getting yelled at? Annabeth doesn’t belong to you.
Do we need to have a talk about the intersectionality of misogyny and racism? Misogyny is equally a problem here. Rebecca Riordan wrote on Twitter, “Demagoguery is a good word to know. “If you don’t get that, if you’re still upset about the casting of this marvelous trio, then it doesn’t matter how many times you have read the books. That neurodivergent kid who has failed out of six schools, for instance, may well be the son of Poseidon. “You should never judge someone by how well they fit your preconceived notions. The things that distinguish us from one another are often our marks of individual greatness,” Rick Riordan writes. “The core message of Percy Jackson has always been that difference is strength. Riordan and his wife, Rebecca Riordan, who’s also an executive producer of the series, both issued statements against the harassment of Jeffries. The 12-year-old Jeffries said in an Instagram video that her TikTok account had been banned thanks to people upset with her casting: “They literally took down my whole account,” she said.
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They’ll star in the series with Walker Scobell, who is playing the title role.
Riordan describes the character as white in the books.ĭisney+ announced the casting of Jeffries and Ayran Simhadri as Annabeth and Grover Underwood on May 5. In a blog post, Rick Riordan condemned social media trolls who have complained that Leah Sava Jeffries, who was cast as Annabeth Chase in the Disney+ series, is Black. The author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series - and executive producer of the upcoming Disney+ series based on the books - has spoken out against racist backlash directed at one of the show’s actors.