American actress Jessica Chastain said that she was “not aligned” on Appletv +’s decision to suspend the release of her next streaming series The Savant.
The series, in which the Oscar winner plays an elite investigator who follows online hatred groups, offers extremist attacks and images.
Appletv + said this week that he would postpone the drama to come “after special attention”. The streaming giant has not developed the decision, although it came in the wake of the murder of the conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.
In an article on Instagram, Chastain said that the program was relevant to current events and will honor the heroes “who work every day to stop violence before it happens.”
The scientist was to be presented in the United States on Friday, but was postponed to “a future date,” Apple said on Tuesday.
The dramatic series, which Chastain has also produced, is based on an article in the 2019 Cosmopolitan magazine on a top secret investigator known under the name of scientist who traces white supremacists and other online hatred groups in order to prevent violent attacks.
Chastain, who won an Oscar for his role as a televangalist in the eyes of Tammy Faye, plays a suburban mother known as the scientist of the series.
The Zero Dark thirty and The Help Star told her on Wednesday at 5.4 million followers on Instagram that she and Apple “were not aligned on the decision to suspend the release of the scientist” and cited several violent attacks in the United States as crucial for the relevance of the show.
Among them, Chastain underlined hundreds of school shots, the attempted kidnapping on the Governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, the attack on January 6 against the American Capitol building, attempts to assassinate on President Donald Trump, as well as the murder of Kirk earlier this month.
“These incidents, although far from executing the entire violence observed in the United States, illustrate a broader state of mind that crosses the political spectrum and must be confronted,” she wrote.
“I have never moved away from difficult subjects, and even if I wish that this show is not so relevant, unfortunately, this is the case,” she added.
The series, she argued, “on the heroes who work every day to stop violence before it happens, and honor their courage feels more urgent than ever”.
She concluded by saying that she respects the streamer’s decision to suspend the release for the moment, she remains “the hope that the show will soon reach the public”.
Appletv + representatives did not immediately respond to BBC information requests on the Chastain remarks on Wednesday.
The series also features the former American footballer Nnamdi Asomugha, Pablo Schreiber, Cole Doman, Michael Patrick Thornton and Richard Grant, who have not yet spoken of postponement.
The directors of the Matthew Heineman and Rachel Morrison series republished Chastain’s Instagram post on their respective accounts.
“This,” wrote Morrison in his republication.
