Riverdale boss apologizes to Vanessa Morgan, vows to honor actors of color
about how she's "the only black series regular" on the show "but also paid the least." Aguirre-Sacasa offered an apology to the actress and made a promise to "do better" by all the actors of color on the show.
"We hear Vanessa. We love Vanessa. 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."will get bigger, not smaller.writers made a donation to [Black Lives Mater Los Angeles], but we know where the work must happen for us. In the writer's room.
She later replied to comments on Twitter, "Lmao too bad I'm the only black series regular but also paid the least." She also added, "And I will no longer take roles that don’t properly represent us. PERIOD."season 4 was cut short due to social-distancing measures without episodes for prom or graduation. Aguirre-Sacasa mentioned inthat "prom would be a great season premiere next year.
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