Star Wars fans noticed something unusual this week: the Instagram account of Amandla Stenberg has vanished without explanation, just days after The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland reignited controversy by labeling some critics of the series as “fascists and racists.”
In her first major interview since The Acolyte was pulled from Disney+, creator Leslye Headland has reignited controversy with a series of candid remarks on the show’s cancellation — culminating in her labeling a portion of longtime YouTube commentators as “fascists and racists.”
Rachel Zegler burst onto the scene with powerful performances in West Side Story (2021) and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). Discovered by Steven Spielberg, she was a force to be reckoned with if even if both her first films flopped...
The Star Wars universe just can’t seem to win lately. Perhaps the greatest example of modern Lucasfilm’s shortcomings can be found in the story of The Acolyte, the controversial Star Wars High Republic Disney Plus series by Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant Leslye Headland.
The series was canceled after a single season, but one of its stars let slip that Headland had ambitious plans for her creation that included three whole seasons and a movie.
In a blunt admission that demonstrates Disney’s ongoing struggles with mismanaged Star Wars projects, Alan Bergman, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, revealed why ill-fated canceled series The Acolyte was axed after a single season.
Amandla Stenberg, the actress who played Mae and Osha in The Acolyte, confirmed that the show was cancelled and then proceeded to blame "a hyper-conservative rampage" against the property. In a video uploaded to her Instagram Stories, Stenberg stated, "Our show, our...
Actor Manny Jacinto, who plays Qimir and the Sith in The Acolyte, recently attempted to explain the final line his character delivers in the fifth episode and by doing so he claims the it will begin a "new story" with the sixth episode. In the show's fifth episode,...
The Acolyte actress Amandla Stenberg jokingly described Leslye Headland as a "sick" and "twisted" while discussing the most recent episode that saw Manny Jacinto's Qimir kill a number of Jedi on the planet Khofar. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Headland first...
Amandla Stenberg, who plays Mae and Osha in Star Wars: The Acolyte, has begun copyright claiming YouTubers who are reacting to her diss track that includes a request for reactions. Stenberg released the video to Instagram on June 19th and wrote, "Happy Juneteenth and...
Actress Amandla Stenberg, who plays Osha and Mae in Star Wars: The Acolyte, released a low production value diss track on Juneteenth in an attempt to defend the show and her past controversial comments. Stenberg posted the nearly 4 minute song to her Instagram account...
The Walt Disney Company, Lucasfilm, and Star Wars are hiding behind a dubious Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh rating while using cherry-picked audience quotes claiming that "fans love The Acolyte." However, the show has the worst audience score of any Star Wars series...
Actress Amandla Stenberg, who plays both Mae and Osha in Star Wars: The Acolyte, recently declared that "white people crying was the goal." During an appearance on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah from 2018 while she was promoting her film The Hate U Give, Noah asked...
Star Wars: The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland explained why she chose to kill off Carrie-Anne Moss' character in the first scene of the show. In an interview with Games Radar, Headland said, "From a filmmaker perspective, I just felt like with the cold open,...