Actor Ezra Miller Has a Bone to Pick With a North Carolina Chapter of the KKK in New Video

Jan. 28 2022, Published 2:41 p.m. ET

Actor Ezra Miller is known for his eccentricities. As the celebrity of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Justice League, The Fantastic Beasts franchise, and now The Flash, he is no stranger to repute and controversy. In 2020, they won public backlash for allegedly choking a fan outside of a bar in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Now, fans are involved for the actor's safety once they posted a new video to Instagram seemingly threatening a North Carolina bankruptcy of the Ku Klux Klan. The video's look for reputedly no reason has additionally sparked questions of why it will have been posted within the first place. Some have speculated the video is a reaction to the recent antisemitic assault in Texas, prompting the question: Is Ezra Miller Jewish?

Here's what we all know.

Is Ezra Miller Jewish?

In 2017, The Washington Post wrote a piece of writing titled "With ‘Justice League,’ Now There’s a Jewish Superhero Played by a Jewish Actor on the Big Screen." The article highlights not simplest Ezra Miller's Jewish id, however how, thru a few traces of debate, the character they play in Justice League (and will reprise in The Flash) Barry Allen, is additionally Jewish.

In an interview from 2012, Ezra discussed their Jewish id with Israeli newsletter Haaretz. They stated, "My father is Jewish, my mother is not, but I consider myself entirely Jewish even though, according to Jewish law, I am not. I encourage everyone to understand that the rules were written before anyone could do DNA tests ... I know that I am a descendant of Abraham through my father."

In addition to being Jewish, Ezra is queer and genderfluid. They stated in an interview with GQ that they are "comfortable with all pronouns."

In a recent Instagram video, Ezra appeared to deal with the KKK.

In a recent post shared to his greater than 46,000 Instagram fans, Ezra Miller seems to handle a Beulaville, N.C. chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The video starts Ezra announcing, "This is Ezra Miller — aka the Bengal Ghouls, the Mad Goose Wizard — and, um, this is a message for the Beulaville chapter of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan."

The actor continues, "Hello. First of all, how are you all doing? Um, it’s me. Look, if y’all want to die, I suggest just killing yourselves with your own guns, OK? Otherwise, keep doing exactly what you’re doing right now — and you know what I am talking about — and then, you know, we’ll do it for you if that’s what you want."

Miller ends the video saying, "OK, talk to you soon, OK? Bye!" In the caption for the video, they write, "Please disseminate (gross!) this video to all those whom it may concern. This is not a joke and even though I do recognize myself to be a clown please trust me and take this seriously. Let’s save some lives now OK babies? Love you like whoa."

Per Variety, none of Miller's representatives had been to be had for remark, nor has Miller clarified the commentary in any way. One fan wrote in the comments section of the Instagram video that the message may be a reaction to a recent arson of a home that happened the similar day as the message posting.

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