'Dear White People' Star Jeremy Tardy Leaving Show After Accusing Lionsgate of Racial Discrimination
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justjared.comJeremy Tardy will be leaving Dear White People ahead of its fourth and final season, the star announced on social media.
The 29-year-old actor, who was recurring as Rashid Bakr on the show, revealed that his reason for not returning is due to racial discrimination.
While he accused them of the discrimination, Lionsgate, who produces the series, says it was nothing more than a financial situation. Jeremy, alongside six other recurring cast members, banded together to get a pay raise and collectively passed on the initial offer in an effort to negotiate better deals as a group.
However, the strategy backfired when a few of them made side deals with the studio “before the collective group received a fair and equitable negotiation process.” Th
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