“You are judging her appropriateness for this role solely and exclusively on how she looks.
She is a Black girl playing someone who was described in the books as white.
Friends, that is racism.”
The young stars of Disney+ series ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’: Leah Sava Jeffries, Walker Scobell, and Aryan Simhadri.Disney
Riordan closed out his letter by listing the qualities that define his books: “difference is strength.
There is power in plurality.
The things that distinguish us from one another are often our marks of individual greatness…
Anyone can be a hero.”
“You didn’t learn anything from them.”
Read Riordan’s full remarks on his website.
Filming begins on the series this summer.
