Neil Gaiman offers a blunt response to the casting backlash towards TheSandman. '‘'You’re just woke and nobody is going to watch your horrible show.’ And then we went Number 1 in the world for four weeks.'
Neil Gaiman has responded to harsh criticisms over casting choices in The Sandman. Based on Gaiman's graphic novels of the same name, The Sandman is a television adaptation that debuted exclusively on Netflix earlier this year. After a long development cycle saw it go from a film to a show, The Sandman cast began to grow throughout 2020 and 2021, with some casting decisions causing hateful backlash, namely the castings of Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Mason Alexander Park.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY In an interview with Inverse, Gaiman responds bluntly to The Sandman's casting backlash. Gaiman says that those who thought the series was minorities in order to be "woke" clearly never read the original comics, as many characters in the graphic novels are openly queer, while also saying that true fans of the comics know that the Endless, such as Death, don't have one set appearance, but rather appear differently to different people.
"Oh, and occasionally, you get people shouting at us for having made up all of these gay characters who weren’t in the comics, and then we’d go ‘Have you read the comics?’ And they’d go ‘No.’ And we’d go, ‘They were gay in the comics.’ And they’d go ‘You’re just woke and nobody is going to watch your horrible show.’ And then we went Number 1 in the world for four weeks. And they went ‘It’s all bots! We hate you. You’re woke.’ It’s a weird silliness.
Since the show's casting was announced, Gaiman has constantly been supportive of the series' casting choices, even once tweeting that he gives "zero f**ks about people who don't understand/ haven't read Sandman whining about a non-binary Desire or that Death isn't white enough.
Though there have always been, and will always be, toxic critiques from viewers, that isn't stopping The Sandman's success. Earlier this month, it was finally confirmed that the series had been renewed for more episodes, and in October, Jenna Coleman confirmed that there is the potential for her character, Johanna Constantine, to get a spinoff of her own.
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