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Nora Roberts speaks out after attacks on casting of Alyssa Milano in adaptation – The Guardian
The bestselling novelist says she is ‘sincerely appalled’ by some readers’ anger at news that the #MeToo activist will star in a Netflix adaptation of Brazen Virtue…
Bestselling novelist Nora Roberts has said she is simply and sincerely appalled after hundreds of her fans posted threats and abuse online in response to the casting of actor Alyssa Milano in an adaptation of one of her novels.
Milano is to play mystery writer Grace in a forthcoming Netflix adaptation of Brazen Virtue, the 1988 thriller by Roberts, who has written more than 200 books that have sold more than 500m copies around the world.
Within an hour of sharing the news on her Facebook page, Roberts…
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