Neil Gaiman has had it with racist and sexist responses to the casting of Netflix's Sandman series.

Gaiman spent much of the last week responding to complaints on Twitter, pointing out that those who are upset about the Netflix series' casting on the grounds of race or gender either heavily misunderstood the Sandman comics or haven't even read them.

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In response to accusations that he's "sold out" by endorsing the Netflix adaptation and its diverse cast, Gaiman pointed out that he's spent 30 years preventing any Sandman adaptations that didn't live up to his standards and stated, "I give zero fucks about people who don't understand/ haven't read Sandman whining about a non-binary Desire or that Death isn't white enough. Watch the show, make up your minds." He's repeatedly stated that people should watch the show for themselves when it comes out so they can see how faithful it is to the comics before they complain about the casting.

Since the latest batch of Sandman casting announcements, there's been a vocal outcry on social media from people angry with different aspects of the casting, most prominently the casting of Kirby Howell-Baptiste, a Black woman, as Death and Mason Alexander Park, a non-binary actor, as Desire.

Death, like all of the Endless, has no race, and while she is usually drawn as pale in the Sandman comics, she and the other Endless are able to take on any sort of physical appearance. Desire is already canonically non-binary in the comics, shifting appearances and pronouns and referred to by the other Endless as a "brother/sister."

Executive produced and co-written by Neil Gaiman and David S. Goyer, Netflix's The Sandman stars Tom Sturridge as Dream, Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Vivienne Acheampong as Lucienne, Boyd Holbrook as The Corinthian, Charles Dance as Roderick Burgess, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Asim Chaudhry as Cain and Abel, Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death, Mason Alexander Park as Desire, Donna Preston as Despair, Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine, Niamh Walsh as Young Ethel Cripps, Joely Richardson as Ethel Cripps, David Thewlis as John Dee, Kyo Ra as Rose Walker, Stephen Fry as Gilbert, Razane Jammal as Lyta Hall, Sandra James Young as Unity Kincaid and Patton Oswalt as Matthew the Raven. The series has yet to receive a premiere date.

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