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By Dave Nemetz / December 16 2020, 5:28 PM PST
Ali Larter is speaking out after unflattering accusations from her Heroes co-star Leonard Roberts came to light.
“I am deeply saddened to hear about Leonard Roberts’ experience on Heroes and I am heartbroken reading his perception of our relationship, which absolutely doesn’t match my memory nor experience on the show,” the actress says in a statement to TVLine. “I respect Leonard as an artist and I applaud him or anyone using their voice and platform. I am truly sorry for any role I may have played in his painful experience during that time and I wish him and his family the very best.”
In case you missed it, Roberts — who is Black, and played D.L. Hawkins on the hit NBC drama — went public with a lengthy essay in Variety on Wednesday, blaming friction with co-star Larter and a lack of diversity behind the scenes for his abrupt firing from Heroes after just one season. “The script suggested D.L. and [Larter’s character] Niki had a volatile relationship — and it wasn’t long before art was imitating life,” Roberts wrote, detailing an incident where Larter complained about a bedroom scene with him, but “apparently had no issue” shooting a seduction scene with co-star Adrian Pasdar. “I couldn’t help wondering whether race was a factor,” Roberts added.
Roberts went on to say that series creator Tim Kring informed him he was being killed off at the start of Season 2 “due to ‘the Ali Larter situation'” and said the two “didn’t have ‘chemistry.'” The actor also noted that there were no Black writers on the Heroes staff and that all the Black cast members were pushed to the back and side during a “particularly odd” photoshoot.
Kring said in a statement to Variety: “Looking back now, 14 years later, given the very different lens that I view the world through today, I acknowledge that a lack of diversity at the upper levels of the staff may have contributed to Leonard experiencing the lack of sensitivity that he describes. I have been committed to improving upon this issue with every project I pursue. I remember Leonard fondly and wish him well.”
Larter recently co-starred on Fox’s Pitch and ABC’s The Rookie, and is set to star in The Sidelines, an upcoming Fox comedy series about a 40-year-old mom pursuing a dream to be a pro football cheerleader.
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Her response seems like a rather half-assed PR response. If she read Leonard Roberts’ essay and this is all she has to say, not sure it’s very genuine. At least she didn’t make excuses.
I’m going to disagree with you here. The apology recognizes there may not have been an intent but there was harm. That’s the hallmark of meaningful regret to me. That’s exactly what this statement says—“I had no intent, but I apologize for harm.”
Agree. I think her response seemed heartfelt and appropriate.
His account has been backed up by multiple people. She’s lying because she is a worthless and horrible person.
Race could have very well played a factor, but there is no way to know that. I wish that race wasn’t always the go-to every time a person of color is involved. It is entirely possible to dislike and/or not gel with somebody for reasons that have nothing to do with race. Sigh. Anyway.
did you actually read the article? Did you read the part where the WHITE show runner was the first one to bring race into it? Go sigh somewhere else the information in question was verified; race did have something to do with it.
All the claps to you for this response!!!
Just because Roberts perceived everything as racial and Hammer may have perceived Roberts’ feelings as indicating as much and thus he brought up race, does not necessarily vindicate Roberts overall perception. As ashelymarisa said, it could have been something as simple and as petty as Larter not chiming well with Roberts or something else entirely that went on behind the scenes that Roberts wasn’t aware of or isn’t telling. This is also a product of identity politic oppression olympics. Who wins out? The black man or the woman? Both are supposed to be overly oppressed and what not. In this situation it seemed they sided with the woman, the gender, rather than the race. Happens sometimes in oppression olympics.
White women have always trumped black men in the hierarchy. Your entire comment is ridiculous.
Actually, that isnt true. The actor brought it up. The director acknowledged hindsight. Timing is suspicious.
No, if you read the article it was clear that Hamm was the first to mention race by preemptively saying that Leonard shouldn’t see it that way. Having been in that seat (though fortunately I was debating quitting rather than being fired), it is very telling when you are tying yourself in knots to figure out how to make a toxic situation work, and your manager asks you if you think the toxic folks’ behavior is because I am a black woman. Through my tears, I said “No, I thought they were just being a**h***s…but since that is the first thing that came to your mind, I have to wonder.”
thank you Dave/Michael for adding the bedroom scene aspect of it, it’s the most damning of all to me
“I couldn’t help wondering whether race was a factor”
I don’t know if “wonder” is enough to label someone a racist. Maybe she just didn’t like the guy.
Good thing then there were several other accounts and examples in the story which backs up race being a factor.
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Race being a factor doesn’t mean the offender is a malignant racist. We have to be open to recognizing that many people engage in race-driven microaggressions without being overt bigots. We have to find a way to deal with these issues by degrees rather than just the reductive and harmful interpretation that you’re either a racist or you’re not. People who are a wee bit racist need the chance to learn and grow out of it safely rather than being outright condemned and becoming so resentful that they go the opposite way and flee into the arms of an orange despot.
Microaggressions don’t exist. no one is telepathic and can determine why people do the things that they do without enough information. Even then, you may be wrong since people are dynamic creatures. Behavior science isn’t a perfect thing. Maybe she just wasn’t attracted to the man. Maybe there are examples in the lady’s history that when she’s not attracted to a male co-star that she vehemently refuses to do intimate scenes with them. We don’t have enough information and Roberts making a comparison with one guy on the show isn’t good enough to form an overall conclusion.
It’s also interesting since Hollyweird is supposed to be the epitome of left-leaning, tolerance, inclusivity, and all of that, yet you get stories like this. Even so, I’m still reluctant to jump to race as the major issue here simply based on Roberts’ words. As I said to another, it could be other factors Roberts didn’t consider and other information, as I alluded to within Larter’s career history that Roberts isn’t aware of, but because he started forming a narrative in his mind, that’s what he stuck with. Just because Hammer brought up his race, doesn’t mean that was the reason. I’m not saying it was, but all of you are jumping to that conclusion based on one person’s perception as if that one person is omnipresent, knows everything, and can prove all of his thoughts and inductive reasoning on the issue.
It’s something that plagues my community. Something negative happens to us involving non-blacks and we immediately jump to racism. I’m curious if Roberts ever wondered if he dropped the ball. I’ve been in those types of situations where I didn’t just fit in with a team at work and had to move on. Again, not saying I’m right, but I’m not saying everything he perceived about the situation is perfectly 100% accurate either. Not saying it isn’t either. I’m just saying people tend to jump to conclusions based on one or two statements and then cancel culture goes on to ruin a life based on that.
Who cares if she’s attracted to the guy or not. If she’s a professional, she plays the role she was hired to play and she doesn’t cause problems that leaves her colleague feeling belittled, to put it mildly. Stop making excuses for her, which minimizes his experience in the process.
I agree with you Rollins. I had to work closely with someone on a project at work. We didn’t get along, we didn’t work well together. She let it be known, I never thought my white coworker didn’t like me because I’m Hispanic. She just didn’t like me!! Not everyone loves me, and that’s ok
I guess there have been worse apologies… The whole situation was handled poorly.. And I got no doubt that at the very least racial ignorance factored into how the higher up dealt with this.. As to ms. Larter and Mr. Roberts… Tension… Unfortunately history has forced all of us poc to have to wonder at one time or another if.. Our race played a part in a particularly uncomfortable situation and then from there how much.. Its exhausting… And contrary to what some ppl may think we( at least the folks in my orbit) aren’t out looking for any more proof that racism in all its forms and degrees is real… I’ve been followed in stores and just hoped to myself that there was a good reason and it wasn’t because of my skin.
This isn’t even the first story to come out of the set. Remember a few years ago when Bryan Fuller tried to make Thomas Dekker’s character gay without telling him (Dekker was not yet ready to come out)
I mean, playing a gay character doesn’t mean the portrayer himself *has* to be gay. making Zach gay wouldn’t have been equal to outing Thomas.
I think Dekker’s reticence was, in part, due to him being closeted at the time, but also because he was in the process of auditioning for the role of John Connor and I think him/his management feared he might lose the role if he wasn’t perceived as being “manly” enough?
Heroes writers went on record to say they still wrote Zach as if he was gay, they just took out the “Claire, I’m gay” line from the script.
Yeah, the Thomas Dekker situation doesn’t reflect well on Dekker’s agents, not on the show. It was widely reported, even at the time, that his agents didn’t want him playing gay roles because they thought it looked bad. Which was in the long run not only playing into crass bigotry, but a pretty stupid decision since quite a few big names have started out playing gay from Billy Crystal to Russell Crowe to Ryan Phillipe etc. Frankly, Dekker’s career might have been more successful had he done his job and played the character as it was being written, since he likely would have generated good publicity rather than what he got at the time, which was a number of press outlets questioning whether Dekker and his agents were homophobic.
Honestly his character sucked, hers wasn’t much better but his was worse i think that’s why he was written off
I don’t think this was the right move for Ali. I was hoping she’d come out and own the way she behaved, but instead we get a generic apology that side steps accountability (“this is not my memory of the show”). She’s basically saying she didn’t do what she’s accused of but apologizing if he misinterpreted her behavior towards him. That is this statement in a nutshell. Also, she got him fired. To say she’s sorry for any part she played in his bad experience when she was his bad experience is so insulting. She might as well have said “Sorry you were fired because of me. I didn’t mean it. My bad.” Because that is clearly the message this half-a** apology sends. If she doesn’t want her career to suffer she needs to do better than this.
I know, right!? There were enough objective witnesses confirming his story that she should have just said something like, “I apologize for my diva behavior back then. I was immature and pushing the power limits of my newfound celebrity. Time and raising a family have matured me, and now I strive to better a better person and role model for my kids.” She’d be sidestepping the implication of racism and pre-empting all the subtweets seconding any of her past bad behavior. Has she learned nothing from Lea Michele?
That would have been a better angle to take. Just once I would like a celebrity to be honest in their apology and say “I messed up. At the time I didn’t see how my behavior was affecting others because I didn’t care to see it. I am ashamed that I behaved in such a manner and want to apologize to anyone in the cast in crew I offended with my microaggressions and thoughtless behavior. I will take this lesson and continue to try to be better so that I can be the example I wish to set for my children.” Something like that would be amazing, but unrealistic because the #1 rule of the fake apology is side step accountability.
If you honestly think you haven’t done it, you can’t just apologize for it like you have.
You can only apologize for “as long as someone thinks did that, I need to make sure that’s never thought again” but you do not take blame for something you didn’t do
And she couldn’t have given this statement to Variety? That’s what’s really sus with me…they asked her for a comment and she didn’t provide one, but now when she’s experiencing backlash she suddenly has an opinion?
Needed more time to get her PR person and agent on it.
I hope the studios recognize this and many other disparate treatment of Black actors and use it to teach and provide opportunities for those in the industry who have been dismissed or marginalized. Maybe Larter should be scrutinized and maybe have some of her projects.put on hold until her behavior can be looked into more.
Oh yes let’s cancel her 14 years later. Give me a break.
Did I miss the piece where you detailed everything that Roberts said went down?
Or is this really just a piece where you shared Larter and Kring’s statements in full and share a mere snippet of Roberts’ account? If I missed another article here with his full story, I apologize, but if I didn’t…I’m really disappointed.
After reading the story in variety, I’m grateful to Roberts for his bravery.
There’s a link in this article to their earlier article today that first shared Roberts story from Variety.
They didn’t post the entirety of his message but gave you an easy click to his entire essay at that site. He submitted his column to Variety, not his social media account or PR flack, so it’s not as if TVline could freely reprint it in its entirety.
Oh god. This is such BS. I stand with Ali!!
Every1 here who believes those claims against her without ANY substantial claims aka MASSIVE DIFF. between perceived and actual racism “claims” should NEVER be on a jury!
This is the court of public opinion. There’s no requirement for proof beyond a reasonable doubt before people are allowed to form an opinion. No oaths are sworn here. Check your faux outrage.
Spare me. Had nothing to do with race. This is reaching.
I want to hear from any of her other black co stars to see if they experienced the same thing. From the confirmation he was fired because they didn’t work well together but was that because she didn’t want a black LI or because she disliked him? Interested to know.
This is a lose lose for her. If she denies responsibility then she becomes the villain who denies others claims of abuse. If she admits it then she confirms she is an abuser. The only road that she can take publicly to protect her career is the soft denial and hypothetical apology. The soft denial is I don’t remember doing it and if I did it wasn’t intentional. The hypothetical apology is “no one deserves to go through that, and I am sorry for any part I may have played unknowingly.” This is basic PR. The real apology wouldn’t and honestly shouldn’t be public. If she truly feels shame and regret then she should go to him, talk it out, and give him closure if nothing else.
One thing that has me a little concerned about our society is the recent trend of airing personal grievances publicly. I support the me too movements aims of exposing abuse and preventing future abuse. That said, I fear that the more common publicly airing ones grievances becomes the more spectator focused the process becomes. Assuming he is 100% truthful in his essay the a serious wrong was done to him. He suffered in silence for 13 plus years and then decided to tell his story. While his story may have value in the public space it creates a he said she said of spectators trying to decide who is the hero and the villain. Honestly we as the spectators don’t know the people, the work environment, or any of the other variables. I have no idea what fallout will come from this essay, I just wonder if there was a better way to handle this.
TV Line needs a “Like” button for posts like this.
All this did for me was remind me of the series existing and then why the series sucked after season 1.. stopped watching after the strike halted the show
Why is it that failed black actors always pull the race card when they are sacked? He wasn’t sacked because of his colour, he was sacked because he was useless!
How has he failed? And who are all these failed black actors you speak of pulling race card. I’ll wait….. I most gave missed her super successful star status. I’m sure you don’t believe anything happens until it happens to you guy
How on earth is there still people blogging about a show that is already over I don’t get it?
Ali Larter is wonderful and trying to cancel her 14 years later is ridiculous. This man has no real meaningful career and knows it. He also knows how cancel culture works so this is a clear attempt to get his name out there again while trying to destroy Larter.
So now you can not be right off the show because you are black? They did not have a chemistry.
Tv-show is a business, if it doesn’t work, someone needs to go and it doesn’t matter what color of skin you have.
I dont understand what kind of apology anyone can expect from Ali Larter or Tim Kring. One day some person pops up and whines: “14 years ago you were bad to me. Because you are RahCisTs!”.
What else they can say apart from “Im sorry you feel that way”. They probably dont even remember that guy and everything that surrounded him.
Crazy white woke liberals created whole generation of parasites. All those Ray Fishers, Gabriel Unions and this guy will now pop up every week. For years black people in USA are being told by their white woke saviors that everything unpleasant that is happening in their lives is because ” ThosE wHiTe peOplE are RaHcIstS and HaTe yUo fOr no rEaSoN”.
So now all those black actors are “starting to remember” all that times they were fired from something or werent hired and think: “OMG. How didnt I saw this before. It was because all of them were RAhCistS! I must go and whine to press. Maybe those rich white producers will pay me up to go away and stop publicly blaming them ”
This is Hollywood. People get fired and characters killed off all the time. Only white actors dont have that “loser complex” and move on to another job. While black actors always try to whine about it and feel sorry for themselves and try to find “race reason”. Because this is how they have been taught by their white liberal masters. This is what Candace has been talking about. Black people should start respect themselves, stop whining and stop listening to white woke left wingers.
I’m sure she doesn’t! Being a privileged, WHITE woman tends to change your prospective!! What is being labeled an “apology”, is a slap in the face!! Can she sound anymore tone deaf
I liked her response. I never liked his character on Heroes. However, season 1 was the only good season on the show. Season 2 and on was all to prop up the Sylar characters which was supposed to be killed off at the end of Season 1 but they brought back. His character was just a supporting character to Ali Larter’s character.
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