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Odessa A\u2019zion<\/a> wasn\u2019t feeling so supreme about this controversy. A\u2019zion pulled out of Sean Durkin\u2019s upcoming adaptation of Holly Brickley\u2019s novel Deep Cuts after experiencing online backlash for her casting. The character A\u2019zion<\/a> was set to play, Zoe Gutierrez, is explicitly Mexican and Jewish in the novel, and A\u2019zion isn\u2019t Mexican. On her Instagram Story, A\u2019zion explained the casting process to add context. \u201cIt is SO important for me to let you in on how it all went down: I went in for Percy, but was offered Zoe instead and instantly said yes!\u201d A\u2019zion wrote. \u201cI\u2019m so pissed y\u2019all. I hadn\u2019t read the book and should have paid more attention to all aspects of Zoe before accepting \u2026 and now that I know what I know??? Fuck that! IM OUT.\u201d<\/p>\n She continued, writing, \u201cI\u2019d never take a role from someone else that\u2019s meant to do it. That SHOULD do it! That\u2019s not me. There are a plentitude of people more capable of playing this role and I am NOT one of them. I can\u2019t wait to see who it ends up being.\u201d \u201cIve been so busy with other work I was trying to carve out a time to re read,\u201d she wrote in another Instagram Story. \u201cI wish I found that time sooner and clocked her name. That\u2019s all that\u2019s mentioned in the script when I just finally did. Thank you thank you THANK YOU GUYS FOR LETTING ME KNOW!!!\u201d<\/p>\n The controversy reached a boiling point after actress Melissa Barrera (who was fired from Scream 7 after speaking out for Palestine<\/a>) made a post clearly about A\u2019zion\u2019s casting. \u201cFOR THE LONGEST TIME even the POC side characters in white stories were played by white actors because white actors would be the ones with access (and because racism),\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd therefore they were the ones that became working actors, and that became the norm \u2026 So in 2026 if there are 1000 roles out there for actors. And 50 of those are written for Latinos. LATINOS should play them.\u201d<\/p>\n Deep Cut will be led by Priscilla<\/a> star Cailee Spaeny as Percy and Queer<\/a> actor Drew Starkey as Joe. The book follows two music obsessives as they navigate growing up in the early 2000s. As of now, nobody has been cast to replace A\u2019zion. Maybe Barrera would pick up if they called?<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not Latina. Photo: Photo by Savion Washington\/Penske Media.\/Getty Images Odessa A\u2019zion wasn\u2019t feeling so supreme about this controversy.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[43498,206323,88,45645,2695,206650,65893,206,3,165601,206649],"class_list":["post-437421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-casting","tag-deep-cuts","tag-entertainment","tag-exit","tag-film","tag-holly-brickley","tag-melissa-barrera","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-odessa-azion","tag-sean-durkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}