Rockmond Dunbar is suing the producers of For present 9-1-1 after his character was abruptly written out of the present amid a disagreement over vaccine necessities.
The actor, 49, was reported to have been pressured off the present after in search of a medical and non secular exemption from getting the Covid-19 vaccine after his character Michael Grant was written out in sequence 5 regardless of being a part of the present from the outset.
His character had been married to LAPD area sergeant Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) earlier than popping out as homosexual, with the couple divorcing by the top of season one however co-parenting their two kids.
The character arc got here to an finish in season 5 as Grant revealed he was transferring to Haiti together with his boyfriend, neurosurgeon David (La Monde Byrd).
He has now initiated authorized motion in opposition to twentieth Tv, a subsidiary of Disney Tv Studios, in accordance with experiences from Deadline.
In court docket paperwork filed on Thursday, Dunbar accused Disney of racial discrimination, including that ‘non-minority workers equally located’ to him weren't made to go away for refusing the coronavirus vaccine.
He additionally alleged that Disney tried to ‘make an instance’ of him by making him out to be a ‘recalcitrant anti-vaxxer’ quite than acknowledging that he holds ‘non-mainstream spiritual beliefs’ which stop him from being vaccinated.
Dunbar is in search of $1.3million (£955,000) in compensation beneath the phrases of his contract.
Deadline reported that twentieth Tv declined to touch upon the lawsuit however stated in a press release on the time of him leaving 9-1-1: ‘We take the well being and security of all of our workers very critically, and have applied a compulsory vaccination affirmation course of for these working in Zone A on our productions.’
The lawsuit additionally comes amid experiences that the Alliance of Movement Image & Tv Producers and Hollywood’s unions have prolonged the trade’s Covid protocols till April 30.
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