Geno Segers exits Broadways Hadestown after backlash over transgender comments

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Set us as preferred Geno Segers has departed the Broadway musical “Hadestown” after remarks he made about transgender people resurfaced online.Segers, who’s acted in “Yellowstone” and “Banshee,” was slated to join the Tony Award-winning production on Sept.

1 as Hades, god of the underworld, as part of a new principal cast that includes Jasmin Savoy Brown as Eurydice, Norbert Leo Butz as Hermes, Amber Iman as Persephone, and Kayko as Orpheus.In a statement on Sunday, per the New York Times, the show announced that “Hadestown” producers and the actor had agreed to part ways and that “additional casting” would be announced.

The departure comes after Segers’ since-deleted social media posts, including videos he uploaded to YouTube, resurfaced online and caused casting backlash that called for the actor to be pulled from the show.In clips featured on OnStage Blog, the actor says, “I’m not against anyone living out their lives the way they want, but I am against their rights superseding the rights of other people — that’s a little bit foul.”In the clip, he continued to say he didn’t think that transgender people were oppressed and he expressed an issue with identifying pronouns.

OnStage Blog host Chris Peterson said that Segers had scrubbed his accounts for the most part but that the actor was posting “anti-trans content” on his X account and Instagram as recently as October.Iman, who will play Hades’ wife, Persephone, in the production, addressed the news that Segers had been nixed in a since-expired Instagram story on Sunday.“I wasn’t posting, But I was not quiet,” Iman wrote.

“Sometimes you gotta get off social media and demand answers.Cuz I’ll be damned if my ‘husband’ is a clown and we’re not at the circus.” On Monday, Segers issued an apology on social media.

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