“We hear Vanessa.
She’s right.”
“We hear Vanessa.
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She’s right,” he wrote in a statement, shared on Twitter late Thursday night.
“We’re sorry and we make the same promise to you that we did to her.
We will do better to honor her and the character she plays.
As well as all of our actors and characters of color.”
“CHANGE is happening and will continue to happen,” he continued.
“Riverdalewill get bigger, not smaller.Riverdalewill be part of the movement, not outside it.
In the writer’s room.”
“Tired of us being portrayed as thugs, dangerous, or angry scary people,” she wrote.
“Tired of us also being used as sidekick non-dimensional characters to our white leads.
Or only used in the ads for diversity but not actually in the show.
It starts with the media.
I’m not being [quiet] anymore.”
Riverdaleseason 4 was cut short due to social-distancing measures without episodes for prom or graduation.
Aguirre-Sacasa mentioned inan interview with EWthat “prom would be a great season premiere next year.”
“I mean big, big, big changes happen.
We are continuing the mystery and the relationship drama straight into season 5.”
Beyond that, we’ll see how the writer’s room adapts the show to this new vow.
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