https://twitter.com/theorlandojones/status/1205872101447675905In a searing video message shared on his Twitter account Saturday morning, Orlando Jones says he was fired from American Gods season 3 and alleges new showrunner Charles Eglee decided his character, Mr. Nancy, sends "the wrong message for black America."
"I know ya'll have LOTS of questions about the firing," Jones prefaced in a tweet. "As always I promise to tell you the truth and nothing but [love]."
According to the actor, who played Mr. Nancy and offered significant writing and producing contributions to season 2 after the departure of original showrunners Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, he was fired on Sep. 10, 2019.
There will be no more Mr. Nancy. Don't let these motherf–ers tell you they love Mr. Nancy. They don't," Jones says in the video. "I'm not going to name names but the new season 3 showrunner [Eglee] is Connecticut born and Yale-educated, so he's very smart and he thinks that Mr. Nancy's angry, get sh– done is the wrong message for black America. That's right. This white man sits in that decision-making chair and I'm sure he has many black bffs who are his advisors and made it clear to him that if he did not get rid of that angry god Mr. Nancy he'd start a Denmark Vesey uprising in this country. I mean, what else could it be?"
