Actor Ewan McGregor spoke up against fans who bombarded 'Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi' co-star Moses Ingram with racist comments on social media.
"It seems that some of the fanbase … has decided to attack Moses Ingram online sending the most horrendous, racist DMs," McGregor said in a."I heard some of them this morning and it just broke my heart."
McGregor, 51, said Ingram, 29, is a"brilliant actor, she's a brilliant woman and she's absolutely amazing in this series. She brings so much to the series, she brings so much to the franchise. It just sickened me to my stomach to hear that this had been happening." Ingram plays Sith Inquisitor Reva Sevander on the new Disney+ series, which premiered on the streaming platform Friday.
On Monday, Ingram shared screenshots of the messages people sent her online on Instagram, calling her a"diversity hire" among other insults and racial slurs. "Long story short, there are hundreds of those, hundreds," Ingram said in a follow-up video posted to her Instagram story. "There's nothing anybody can do to stop this hate."
"The thing that bothers me is … sort of this feeling that I've had inside of myself, which no one has told me, but this feeling of, 'I just have to shut up and take it,'" Ingram continued."And I'm not built like that, so I really just wanted to come on and say thank you to the people that show up for me in the comments and the places I'm not gonna put myself. To the rest of y'all, y'all weird.
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