The makers of a popular American series have decided to take a drastic step: One of the main cast members has been fired. Now the Fans are fighting back.

actor Hartley Sawyer since the 4. Season a part of the series The Flash . Now have him fired the creators. Many Fans are not satisfied with the decision and try to make the Bann.

For the past several weeks, countless people in the USA and many other countries on the road. Reason of the death of the US citizen George Floyd , who was killed by police officers is not, even though he set himself to the military. The bad incident triggered a global debate about racism and prejudice against Black people and other cultures.

on the movie and series industry, the current discourse takes its influence. While countless celebrities pledge their support in the fight against racism, others are already the first to deeds: the makers of The super-hero series The Flash have fired actor Hartley Sawyer , after the latter published several racist comments on the Internet.

“The Flash”actor Hartley Sawyer fired – producers explain their decision

Hartley Sawyer , played in The Flash no minor supporting role. On the contrary, Since the 4. Season is his character Ralph Dibny , or “ Elongated Man ” an important part of the Casts. Together with the main character Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) he takes it in for the new 6. Season with the antagonist of the superhero “The Flash” on. The current follow, Fans can see by the way on Prime Video*. To Joyn* in contrast, the 1 is. Season available.

Although a 7. Season of the series has already been confirmed, will Sawyer go back to the DC universe. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, he was fired after Screenshots emerged of old Tweets in which the actor expresses racist and homophobic. Such comments are not able to accept the producers according to their own statements, which is why Sawyer should not, once again, for The Flash in front of the camera.

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Fans with the decision of The Flash-makers dissatisfied

While many viewers can understand the decision of the producers to the full, others shocked and disappointed. Fans have therefore presented a Petition to the legs, to bring Sawyer back to the Set of The Flash . On the side of change.org they justify their request: Since the actor is published, the critical Tweets between the years 2009 and 2015, he has changed his belief in the meantime. He deserve to be thus a second Chance.

Meanwhile, over 10,000 people (Stand: 16. May 2020) signed the Petition. Whether the producers reconsider their decision, therefore, remains to be seen.

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All the info to The Flash at a glance

series

The Flash

publish date

2014 (six seasons, a season)

idea

DC-Comics

Genre

super heroes series

country

USA

actors

Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, etc.

Available on

Prime Video, Joyn

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these are the series Highlights, by 2020