the Past has caught up with the 35-year-old american actor Hartley Sawyer, who has just received a fyreseddel on the basis of several old tweets, which have sprung up.
Therefore he will not be in the cast, when the seventh season of the series ‘The Flash’, where he has held the role as Ralph Diby/The Elongated Man, rolls over the screen.
It writes among other CNN.
The tweets are from the period 2012-2014, where Hartley Sawyer literally thrown on with jokes about racism, suicide and rape.
among other things He has written:
‘As a boy was one of my’ favourite activities to kidnap homeless women and cut their breasts of’.
In a second tweet, he writes:
‘Out for dinner and I have just revealed myself as a racist, AGAIN’.
In a press release announcing the firing, takes the producers behind the series, Warner Bros. TELEVISION, Berlanti Productions and executive producer Eric Wallace of the distance from the actor’s lookup.
‘We do not tolerate derogatory remarks directed towards any races, ethnicities, national origins, gender or sexual orientations. Such comments are unethical according to our values and politics, which strive to promote a safe, inclusive and productive environment for our employees’, they write.
It was among the other actress Skai Jackson, who chose to shed light on the old tweets by posting pictures of them on his Twitter.
Hartley Sawyer, you have been exposed… pic.twitter.com/ig5VBXoZmK
— Skai Jackson (@skaijackson) June 5, 2020
According to CNN has Hartley Sawyer not commented on the decision on the dismissal, but he has recently apologized for its tweets on its instagramprofil.
‘Regardless of my intentions does my words matter, and they lead to profound consequences’, writes the actor, among other things.
His twitter account into have been deleted, since the old tweets were brought up to the surface.
