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Leah Sava Jeffries relished the opportunity to explore what it meant to be a Black Annabeth. Andrew McIlroy, who worked on set as an acting coach, printed out hundreds of images of Greek characters, inviting the actors to hold onto the pictures they resonated with. “Leah said, ‘None of these people look like me.” So in their next session, Mcllroy brought her an image of a dark-skinned woman with long black hair and flames in her eye sockets, wearing an intricate golden crown. Leah went, ‘Yeah. That’s Athena. That’s my mom.’”

Annabeth Chase is currently trending.

People are going to talk about all of the shocking behind the scenes stories, but if there's one takeaway I hope they get from Mo's indispensable new book, it's putting to rest the idea that dysfunction & cruelty are necessary parts of the creative process in making great TV.

WHY HAVE A TV WRITER ON SET? Since they already wrote the script (and rewrote it 8 times, and tweaked it after the table read)? Glad you asked, here's a thread.

I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the @WGAWest's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.

Rest in Peace to Lance Reddick 💙⚡️

Lance Reddick joins Walker Scobell as Zeus and Toby Stephens as Poseidon in #PercyJackson & The Olympians!

The incredible mimicry of the European starling.