Candice Patton beforehand recalled being subjected to horrific racist abuse and harassment on-line when she was first solid in The Flash — and sadly, the CW and Warner Bros allegedly failed to guard her.
“On the time, it was sort of similar to, ‘That’s how followers are, no matter,’” she mentioned in 2022. “Even with the businesses I used to be working with, The CW and WB, that was their approach of dealing with it. We all know higher now. It’s not OK to deal with your expertise that approach, to allow them to undergo abuse and harassment. For me in 2014, there have been no help techniques. Nobody was looking for that. It was free vary to get abused each single day.”
“It’s simply not sufficient to make me your lead feminine and say, ‘Take a look at us, we’re so progressive, we checked the field.’ It’s nice, however you’ve put me within the ocean alone round sharks. It’s nice to be within the ocean, however I can get eaten alive out right here,” she added.
