i didnt realize the scale that they are purging wrongthink in hollywood.
Actor Hartley Sawyer has been fired from 'The Flash' after a host of his tweets containing misogynist and racist references were surfaced in the past week.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Lead actor Grant Gustin
reposted Wallace's statement, writing that he was "shocked, saddened and angry when I saw the tweets. Words matter."
Among the
tweets users surfaced in the past two weeks are one from 2012 in which Sawyer wrote, "The only thing keeping me from doing mildly racist tweets is the knowledge that Al Sharpton would never stop complaining about me." In 2014, he wrote, "Enjoyed a secret boob viewing at an audition today." Several tweets refer to assaulting women, and one reads, "Date rape myself so I don't have to masturbate."
Sawyer
issued an apology on Instagram, saying in part, "My words, irrelevant of being meant with an intent of humor, were hurtful, and unacceptable. I am ashamed I was capable of these really horrible attempts to get attention at that time. I regret them deeply. This was not acceptable behavior. These were words I threw out at the time with no thought or recognition of the harm my words could do, and now have done today."
Sawyer joined
The Flash in 2017 as Ralph Dibny, aka Elongated Man. He recurred on the show initially and was upped to series regular in 2018.
In 2018, ABC canceled its
Roseanne revival after star and executive producer Roseanne Barr posted a tweet comparing former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape. (The network greenlit spinoff
The Conners after severing all ties with Barr.) Kevin Hart was dropped as host of the 2019 Oscars after a series of homophobic tweets from several years earlier surfaced. Last fall,
Saturday Night Live hired comedian
Shane Gillis as a recurring player, then fired him after racial and homophobic slurs he made on a podcast came to light.
And just last week, producer Dick Wolf
fired writer Craig Gore from a forthcoming
Law & Order: SVU spinoff after Gore posted a photo of himself on social media holding a weapon and threatening to "light up" looters if they came near his property.