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The Sandman Announces Additional Cast—With Pronouns for Performers!

There has been a new announcement for 'The Sandman' series at Netflix but in an amazing PR blast, Netflix announced the cast along with their pronouns!
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Netflix’s The Sandman is gearing up to be an amazing adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comic series. From Gwendoline Christie starring as Lucifer to Tom Sturridge as Dream of the Endless, we were already excited about what this series had in store for us, and now we’re getting additional cast, including Patton Oswalt, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, and more! But there was something even more exciting in the announcement: the inclusion of preferred pronouns for each performer!

While the cast is absolutely incredible (Jenna Coleman as Constantine?! YES PLEASE), what was great was that the press release included preferred pronouns for the entire additional cast, as well as for those already announced! (MAKE THIS A REGULAR THING, PLEASE AND THANK YOU.)

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The email went on, stating: “You all know that Tom Sturridge (he/him) is Dream of the Endless, Gwendolyn Christie (she/her) is Lucifer, Sanjeev Bhaskar (he/him) and Amid Chaudry (he/him) are Cain and Abel, Charles Dance (he/him) is Roderick Burgess, Vivienne Acheampong (she/her) is Lucienne, and Boyd Holbrook (he/him) is The Corinthian.”

This should be commonplace. So often, when writing about performers, I tend to go to their social media platforms to find what pronouns they use and how they identify. It’s an easy step on my part, but there are some writers/outlets that don’t go through that effort, and having an email PR blast that tells us the cast and their pronouns makes it common for writers to make sure they’re not misgendering performers, as well.

Mason Alexander Park uses they/them pronouns, and while this email introduced them to the series and then included the pronouns of the rest of the cast, as well, I really loved how this press release was formatted. There wasn’t a moment where they assumedwe knew everyone’s pronouns and made it clear how each new cast member identified and again, that should just be the norm.

What was also cool was the email broke down the casting behind each actor and why they were chosen for the role.

DEATH – Dream’s wiser, nicer, and much more sensible sister. Significantly harder to cast than you might imagine (well, than I imagined, anyway). Hundreds of talented women from all around the planet auditioned, and they were brilliant, and none of them were right. Someone who could speak the truth to Dream, on the one hand, but also be the person you’d want to meet when your life was done on the other. And then we saw Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s (she/her) audition and we knew we had our Death.
DESIRE – Dream’s sibling and everything you want, whatever you want and whoever you are. Desire is also trouble for Dream. Families are complicated. We had barely started looking when Mason Alexander Park (they/them) reached out on Twitter, and threw their hat into the ring. We were thrilled when they got the part.
DESPAIR – Desire’s twin, Dream’s sister. She is the moment when all hope is gone, the bleakest of the Endless. Donna Preston (she/her) will be playing her, and her performance is chilling and sad. You feel her pain.
JOHANNA CONSTANTINE – Eighteenth Century occult adventuress, John Constantine’s great-great-great grandmother. This Sandman character became so popular that she even had her own spin-off series. I created her to fill the role that John Constantine does in the past. When we broke down the first season, given that we knew that we would be encountering Johanna in the past, we wondered what would happen if we met a version of her in the present as well. We tried it and the script was sparkier, feistier, and in some ways even more fun. So having written her, we just had to cast her. Jenna Coleman (she/her) gave us the Johanna of our dreams – tough, brilliant, tricky, haunted and probably doomed.
ETHEL CRIPPS – Roderick Burgess’s love, John Dee’s mother, is a small but vital role in the comics, but she became more important as we told our story. In the 1920s and 30s, she is played by Niamh Walsh (she/her): a betrayed and determined young woman seeking to survive. In the present day, now a woman of a hundred identities and a thousand lies, she’s played by the brilliant Joely Richardson (she/her).
JOHN DEE – Ethel’s son is dangerous. He was driven mad, long ago. Now he’s out and on a quest for Truth that may destroy the world. We needed an actor who could break your heart and keep your sympathy while taking you into the darkest places. We were lucky that David Thewlis (he/him) took the part.
Now we’re shooting The Doll’s House, the second big Sandman storyline. It’s the story of:
ROSE WALKER – a young woman on a desperate search for her missing brother, who finds a family she didn’t know that she had, and a connection to Dream that neither of them can escape. We needed someone young who could make you care as she ventures into some very dangerous places. Boyd Holbrook’s Corinthian is waiting for her, after all. Kyo Ra (she/her) achieves that as Rose.
LYTA HALL – Rose’s friend, a young widow mourning her husband Hector. Rose doesn’t know that Hector has started showing up in Lyta’s dreams, though. Or that strange things are happening. Razane Jammal (she/her) is Lyta, and she’s terrific.
UNITY KINKAID – Heiress, Rose’s mysterious benefactor. She has spent a century asleep. Now she’s awake, having missed out on her life. She’s played by Sandra James Young (she/her).
GILBERT – Rose Walker’s debonair protector. A dab hand with a paradox and a sword cane. Stephen Fry (he/him) is a National Treasure, and we forget sometimes that he’s also a remarkable actor. Seeing him in costume and make up on the dailies made me blink: it was as if the comic had come to life.
MATTHEW – Dream’s trusted emissary. A raven. I expected our animals to be CGI, and was both taken aback and thrilled when the dailies started coming in, and there was Dream talking to… well, a raven. But ravens don’t really talk. The question was, could we find an actor who could make you care about a dead person who was now a bird in the Dreaming – one who isn’t certain what’s going on, or whether any of this is a good idea? And could we find a voice performer who was also the kind of Sandman fan who used to stand in line to get his Sandman comics signed? The answer was, we could if we asked Patton Oswalt (he/him). And Patton was the first person we asked, and the first person we cast, the day before we pitched The Sandman to Netflix.
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I was already very excited for The Sandman. Lady Lucifer and the ever-expanding Boyd Holbrook Netflix universe delighted me, but this email just made me that much more excited. The team behind the show clearly cares, and now that Netflix has set this is motion, there’s no excuse for other companies. Including preferred pronouns for your performers is simple and the least you can do, and kudos to Netflix for taking the step and being there for the talent they’re working with.
 
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Shouldn’t the title of the show be The Sandmxn? I find the current title reenforcing patriarchal privilege.
 
Every single casting decision I've seen is utter garbage. (With the possible exception of Despair and Gilbert.) Even the minor characters they're focusing on tell you they intend to screw up the origin story.

This show was doomed from conception, doomed by its Netflix origins, and doomed from the moment of casting. And now it's doomed to be woke trash on top of all that.
 
It’s an easy step on my part, but there are some writers/outlets that don’t go through that effort,
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No, this is what mentally ill people do. Troons are like 1% or less of the population so why should we change the way we write for such a small minority?
 
So I noticed only one person there has sooper dooper special pronouns. Sounds like they had to pander to that creature Mason Alexander Park. It's non-binary but looking at pics I am pretty sure it is a guy. He's kinda got an ugly middle aged British woman vibe. But I am pretty sure it's a guy. Dat jaw. He's also going to be in the Cowboy Bebop live action series. Is that also Netflix? Wonder how hard it's gonna crash and burn.


He's actually 25 if you can believe that. I thought for sure he was a haggard 45 at least. Aging like milk.

Can you imagine if Netflix tries to keep this pronoun thing up? Why would we even need to know this stuff? They are playing characters, not themselves. There's no reason why we need to see a pronoun chart. It exists solely to show how woke Netflix is when we see one or two neo-pronoun freaks amongst the cast. Maybe they'll add a button you can click for full cast pronoun info. Hell! Add one for the crew too. I wouldn't want to misgender assistant key grip #2.
 
Dysnomia said:
So I noticed only one person there has sooper dooper special pronouns. Sounds like they had to pander to that creature Mason Alexander Park. It's non-binary but looking at pics I am pretty sure it is a guy. He's kinda got an ugly middle aged British woman vibe.
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Desire should be androgynous, and it's the only case where gender-neutral pronouns might be warranted. The fact that they dropped pronouns for the actors, and want people to make a big deal about it, is what turns this from maybe being a clever nod to the source material, to being woke pandering bullshit.

How do you take source material that includes gays, a sympathetic troon, and literal non-binary entities, and fuck it up so badly? The representation was already built in, and it wasn't enough. The acceptance agenda was already part of certain plot elements, but it's not enough. They just can't admit that popular comics were so progressive 30 years ago, they have to pretend it takes Modern Progressive Hero Casting to "fix" it.

These fuckers just can't admit they are neither stunning nor brave. They're tired, cliched, predictable. They aren't satisfied with subverting popular non-woke franchises, they want to subvert the progressive ones too, and they can't even do a good job on their own side.

I'm going to call it now: these cowardly fucktards are going to completely change the 24 Hours episode, and try to make it some kind of commentary on anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, instead of the visceral horror it's supposed to be. They don't have the guts to depict what the comics did.
 
How old is the woman playing Lyta? She is suppost to be middle-aged and past being able to be a hero but she looks early 30s at most. To say nothing of the fact that she is clearly arabic, when, if you ignore crisis, she was born Hippolyta Trevor, the daughter of golden age Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
He's the fat guy at the serial killer convention, right? If so the casting is really great.
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Off topic - the serial convention always made me think of furry conventions, and how both are pretty horrifying and even share some of the same tropes.

Back on topic - so glad I cancelled Netflix. They suck black and troon girldick so hard it’s amazing nobody gets a thrombosis or a fucked up urethra. Is this how they cope with the ever growing list of streaming competitors, is by focusing on niche markets?

I don’t know about anyone else but not only am I amazed that we’ve discovered that trooning is a communicable mental illness, I’m increasingly alarmed at how fast its spreading.
 
My pronouns are motherfucker/motherfucker/motherfucker. Respect them.

Also worth mentioning that Neil Gaimen is onboard with these changes, per the other thread in Media. Like how SJW shit was inserted into Bad Omens and American Gods.
 
I've been MOTI all over the Netflix and Sandman Rape threads in Multimedia so I will just commend the latter thread especially for your reading pleasure. Bottom line, Sandman was and still is incredibly inclusive, full of strong black queens, ethnic minorities, homeless people, sex workers, and every letter of the alphabet people. These woke changes are unnecessary and do not follow the logic of the story, if the story is relatively unmolested. And whatever Neil Gaiman may say now, he explicitly designed the Endless to be white with Caucasian features. Several of them were borrowed from other works (the 1970s Destiny, Patrick Nagel's "Rio") or based on real people (Cinamon Hadley, Brian Blessed). Hadley lived a rough life, sometimes but not always by choice, and was usually poor. She was trying to turn things around at the age of 49, going to school for fashion design, when she got cancer and died. Presenting her image to a new audience would have been a fitting tribute, but signalling wokeness is apparently more important. Sorry I'm simping for dead queer big tiddy goth GF, this just makes me mad.

Netflix are only woke for virtue signalling, though, they don't care about actual discrimination in entertainment: They chose a woman in her 50s to play Ethel Cripps, who should be in her 70s or 80s at least. The actress is 2 years younger than the actor who plays her son.

And of course they have blacked every Caucasian character with red hair.
 
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