nicole beharie on life after sleepy hollow: i was blacklisted

[numara]

Being a black woman means you’ll get black listed for something out of your control while your coworker gets babied for the same exact issue https://t.co/HmUwOAaf3a
- 🦴kim☆。・ (@notbbyplantain) January 12, 2021

- for those who never watched, nicole was considered the lead of sleepy hollow with tom mison as her sidekick/co-lead. in 2016, both

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[screamingintune]

I didn't care for this show, but it was utterly ridiculous that they basically tanked the actual STAR OF THE SHOW. I didn't realize it was because of an illness, that makes it so much worse. People can't help getting sick, and to blacklist someone over it? The outrage.

She was the far more interesting star. Mison imo was dull as all get out

[shahrazade_bard]

they basically tanked the actual STAR OF THE SHOW

And tanked the show right along with her by writing her out. It's not exactly enough in the way of justice but I'm at least glad the show got what it deserved after firing the only compelling character.

I thought Ichabod was adorable and fun to watch, but only because of his interactions with Abbie. The minute she was gone, bam, nothing.

[angriest_girl]

Yeah, he was great with her because they had chemistry but when it was him and Katrina that actress just dragged him down into her chemistry vacuum with her and he was pretty terrible.

[villanellesalt]

He was funny in a fish-out-of-water context that could be played by anyone/character. She was responsible for the show's entire personality. It's not easy to make a common detective interesting without going overboard, and she managed to do it.

[slinkydinks]

She had a C. diff infection too, which... if you know what that entails, it's NOT pretty. The fact that they wouldn't accept that she was sick and needed to be treated (NOT work), despite having doctors come on set and test/report her diagnosis, is beyond absurd. C. diff is notorious for being resistant to antibiotics and recurring too. So it's not as simple as take this pill and you'll be fine in a few days.

I'm not saying it's similar, but I was sick with a nasty GI bug where I lost like... 10 lbs in a few days. My doctor didn't believe that it was possible, but the numbers didn't lie. And I couldn't hold any food or drink down. My job at the time wouldn't let me call in sick. They basically threatened to fire me, and when I got there, I told them I couldn't handle any food. And it wasn't until I nearly passed out, that they surrounded me and were like, "Oh, yeah, you look really pale and in bad shape." America and its obsession with work-even-at-the-doorstep-of-death is completely and utterly fucked.

[river1728]

It's wild that they made her work while having an active C. Diff infection. When we have patients in the hospital with it, we have to put them in isolation. You also have to use straight up bleach to kill it and sanitize equipment. We also can't use hand sanitizer after treating because it doesn't kill it.

[slinkydinks]

Yeah, in the lab, we had to use Virkon, which is a strong bleach/detergent/AND acid. Because the bleach wasn't enough to kill the spores.

[goldenhera]

Damn what kind of conditions were they in that both of the leads got C. diff!?