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Disney Entertainment Colorado - Chair Alan Bergman on why Leslye Headland ’s Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung - jae - starring The Acolyte was cancelled .
Four months after the word came down thatLeslye Headland’sAmandla Stenberg&Lee Jung - jae - starringThe Acolytewould not be returning for a second season , Dana WaldenandAlan Bergman , co - chair of Disney Entertainment , are offering " The Mouse ’s " perspective on why a 2d time of year did n’t happen . The series got off to a strong two - instalment debut , with 11.1 million worldwide views over the course of its first five days – go on to launching on Nielsen ’s Top 10 originals chart with its premiere week at No . 7 ( 488 million minute see ) , rising to No . 7 the next week . As the season went on , the stream serial would sink out of Nielsen ’s Top 10 with the third episode – only hark back to the chart with the finale .
It should also be mark thatThe Acolyte , its form , and its originative team also faced the rising conflict of seek to make headway over a certain part of fans who attacked the series and those associated with it on social mass medium for its efforts at variety and representation and reappraisal - bombed episode during the show ’s run . Stenberg and others called out the harassment that they received lead into and during the season – withJodie Turner - Smith(Mother Aniseya)calling out Disney for not doing more to protect Stenberg .
speak withVulturefor a visibility consultation about him and Walden and Disney ’s vary approach path to streaming and theatrical , Bergman credited the series with doing well but not well enough for Disney to be able to open a second season . " So , as it touch to Acolyte , we were happy with our performance , but it was n’t where we needed it to be throw the cost structure of that form of address , quite frankly , to go and make a time of year two . So that ’s the reason why we did n’t do that , " Bergman explained .
The Acolyte Ending “Not a Huge Shock”: Stenberg on Experiencing Hate
Back in August , we got a chance to hear from the show ’s major player – Stenberg , who made it clear that they were n’t storm by the newsworthiness because of the hate that they do it they personally – and the show overall – would present for make bold to offer something unlike , with a hurl the represents the diversity of the " Star Wars " fandom . " It ’s not a huge shock for me . Of naturally , I hold out in the house of cards of my own reality , but for those who are n’t aware , there has been a violent disorder of invective that we have confront since the show was even announce , when it was still just a concept , no one had even examine it . That ’s when we startle experiencing a violent disorder of , I would say , hyper - conservative bigotry and vitriol , bias , hatred , and hateful language toward us , " Stenberg shared during an Instagram Stories video deal the show ’s cancellation . " This really affected me when I first got the problem because it ’s just not something even though I anticipated it happening ; it ’s not something you’re able to fully empathise what it feels like until it ’s happening to you . " Here ’s a flavour at what Stemberg had to share :
" Hello , I cogitate I would get on here and just speak honestly . I hate doing this . I hate doing this , but I ’m gon na do it . I honestly , I do n’t use societal media very much anymore , and I ’m so felicitous about that , but there are many folks out there that I want to acknowledge , and I want to show taste and love and support for , so that ’s why I ’m hopping on here to spill the beans about this , which is that our show , our ' Star Wars ' show , has been cancel . And I ’m gon na say , I ’m really transparent , and say that it ’s not a immense shock for me . Of course , I live in the bubble of my own reality , but for those who are n’t aware , there has been a rampage of oil of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced , when it was still just a concept , no one had even seen it . That ’s when we startle experiencing a rampage of , I would say , hyper - conservative bigotry and vitriol , preconception , hate , and hateful spoken communication toward us . This really affected me when I first go the job , because it ’s just not something even though I anticipated it happening , it ’s not something you may full understand what it feels like until it ’s happening to you , " Stenberg apportion .
The Acolytestar continued , " On that matter , I just have to say it has been an unbelievable pureness and dreaming for me to be in this universe . Even though , of course , I ’m very sad about the show being canceled , and I ’m distressing about us not being able to give hoi polloi who are place into it more because … . I still just feel a plenty of levity and delight around the fact that it that I got to receive it , and that multitude loved it , and that hoi polloi were so responsive . I teem through a circumstances of unlike iterations of rooter art and ship art and fan theory and things that were just so beautiful and fill my heart with joy . I just want to let those hoi polloi know out there who supported us in that way and brook us vocally , despite and in the face of all of the vitriol that we received and the kind of the targeted attack , I would say we received by the alt - right , just that you are deeply get it on and appreciated . It made this job all the worthwhile for me , and it made all of the gainsay elements of it totally worthwhile for me . That plus my erotic love of sci - fi and fantasy and being able to be a part of the legacy of something that I so profoundly value , and something that means so much to me and I ’ve looked up to for so long . "
" I also just want to say thank you to Lucasfilm for just being a fing awe-inspiring team . They were so rattling to forge with . Everybody that I make for with in Lucasfilm , particularly Rayne Roberts , my manufacturer . Who just had such vision and promise and such a mission for what we were going to continue contribute into the ' Star Wars ' universe . And it was a really beautiful , energizing , life - changing experience to be a part of . And I have to thank Leslye Headland , who just , I just fing love that b***h . rationalize my French . She ’s just one of the best people in the world . I cogitate she ’s so incredibly talented and alone and genial , and I ’ll be intimate her perpetually , and I will bang this experience with her forever . But at the end of the 24-hour interval , I also just want to thank everybody who watched it . give thanks you for being so loving and supportive and excited and nerdy and awesome , and I ’ll continue to treat this for a long time , " Stenberg persist in .
The actor ended the message urging others to vote and be their own agents of variety propel onwards . " Maybe the last thing I require to say on the study is that we all survive in the context of all in which we live ( laughs ) . But I ’m serious . it ’s not lose on me how the way of life that these events have spread out is also due to the hyper divisiveness of the clip that we live in . That is beat back , I would say at this point , by echo chambers of thought and algorithms that reinforce our bias . And I think that practice to everybody , but I think that in a fussy sect of people , it certify as a lot of fearfulness for what is changing , a lot of hatred for anything that is other . And I would challenge us all and dispute myself to continue questioning what it is that I digest and reckon critically about what shapes it . And have ’s vote . Y’all , let ’s vote . Let ’s vote . I think that ’s all I have tosay . "
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