The dark side of fandom
Ahmed Best best known for providing the voice and movement capture for the character of Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars prequels has revealed that he considered suicide because of the adverse fan reaction to the character. What was supposed to be a comedy relief lead to charges of racism with Binks being called out for a stereotypical. Apart from one crucial moment in the second prequel Attack of the Clones the character was pretty much side lined from the next films. Given the recent debate about fan opinion being vitriolic perhaps that the people on the are human beings.
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