Geno Segers has departed the Broadway musical \u201cHadestown\u201d after remarks he made about transgender people resurfaced online. <\/p>\n
Segers, who has acted in \u201cYellowstone<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBanshee<\/a>,\u201d 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. <\/p>\n In a statement on Sunday, per the New York Times<\/a>, the show announced that \u201cHadestown\u201d producers and the actor had agreed to part ways and that \u201cadditional casting\u201d would be announced. <\/p>\n The departure comes after Segers\u2019 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, \u201cI\u2019m not against anyone living out their lives the way they want, but I am against their rights superseding the rights of other people \u2014 that\u2019s a little bit foul.\u201d<\/p>\n In the clip, he continued to say he didn\u2019t 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 \u201canti-trans content\u201d on his X account and Instagram as recently as October. <\/p>\n Iman, who will play Hades\u2019 wife, Persephone, in the production, addressed the news that Segers had been nixed in a since-expired Instagram story on Sunday.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t posting, But I was not quiet,\u201d Iman<\/a> wrote. \u201cSometimes you gotta get off social media and demand answers. Cuz I\u2019ll be damned if my \u2018husband\u2019 is a clown and we\u2019re not at the circus.\u201d <\/p>\n