‘Not My Rodrick’ campaign arises in response to recasting

During the weekend, a campaign started to arise about the acting cast of the new movie of “Diary Of The Wimpy Kid” and one of its characters, Rodrick. People are upset about the new actor who is playing the new Rodrick instead of the older actor Devon Bostick. The new actor’s name is Charlie Wright, and he does not look like the Rodrick that we all know and love.

The campaign started when the trailer came out of the new movie and people were enraged by what they saw. Most of the people on social media were comparing him to different characters from different shows/movies. Wright is mostly compared to Lord Farquaad, Bella Thorne, Jeffree Star, Pleakley from “Lilo and Stitch” and Dora The Explorer. People mostly were just roasting this actor because how different he looks from the original Rodrick from the past movies.

The reason why the original actor wasn’t going to be in the movie is because he is 25 years old now, and he doesn’t really look like a teenager anymore so the producers just needed another actor that actually looks younger and they found one (that doesn’t really look like Rodrick).

There is also another trending hashtag “Not My Heffleys” as well with the “Not My Rodrick” campaign. Because they also replaced the actor for Greg, mom, dad, and even Rowley. Our childhood has been taken from us and has been replaced with different actors. This tomfoolery is outrageous to all of our childhoods and our hearts have been ripped out of our chests. Why can’t they just keep the old actors and show them looking older and growing? Nobody stays young forever.