When Jar Jar actor Ahmed Best was receiving death threats from fans, film journalists didn’t care

Star Wars: The Last Jedi actress Kelly Marie Tran reportedly deleted her Instagram posts because of fan harassment. Many film journalists and bloggers are now loudly supporting her. Tran shouldn’t trust them too much, though. As soon as she does a movie they hate, most of them won’t care if she’s harassed anymore.

After the release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best was the target of many infuriated fans. ““I had death threats through the internet,” Best said. “I had people come to me and say, ‘You destroyed my childhood.’ That’s difficult for a 25-year-old to hear.”

You’ll hardly find articles defending Best against his harassers. Most film journalists were pandering to the angry fans at the time. They didn’t care if some of those fans were bullying an actor.

There will be two other posts about fan harassment today.

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joe

7 June 2018 at 13h01 Reply

disgusting

KirkMan1701

7 June 2018 at 21h36 Reply

I agree, this anti-Jar Jar Binks fanaticism is very violent like with a voluminous myriad of violent hate-art etc against Jar Jar Binks of the character either getting assaulted or killed out of spite as well as a laundry list of many ways Jar jar Bonks could get killed. Hence it is no surprise that Ahmed best has received death threats for his role that those old-school Star Wars-obsessed psychopaths didn’t approve of. There are some who think that Jar Jar is evil and that the Sando Aqua Monster is evil as I address in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkp0xNuwYmk