Also? People forget that Jacob Anderson learned some harsh lessons from working on Game of Thrones himself. Which is why he didn't sign a seasons-long contract with IWTVL the way that Sam did. He is taking things with the show season-by-season instead.
So, if that man wanted to walk away? He could because he is not locked into a long-term contract with the show.
So yes, Jacob knew exactly what was up wrt Season 3 before he came back to do it. And he did it, happily so, even mocking those who thought the show was screwing him over with the switch to Lestat during their Comic-Con panel last year (Start: 10:48):
Some people are just desperate to think/want Jacob to hate the show and be a victim in all of this to justify their own hatred of the show, and it not being what they imagined the show to be about in their heads.
And that, from everything we actually have seen from Jacob and know via how he's actually been moving wrt the show, that he does not hate the show. Even in the recent TV guide interview, he talked about the collaborative process wrt the seance scene and the input he himself had with it when it came to Louis' character and the things Louis said during it and acted in it, just as Delainey did for Claudia during the After Dark episode right after:
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So yeah, some people in fandom are just desperate to see Jacob as some sort of victim in all of this, and if you actually look at how he is moving and acting with the show? He clearly does NOT see HIMSELF in that way!
Hell, just in his most recent interview with Sam on Autumn's podcast, he was quite happy and joyful.
And yes, Rolin Jones was also the creator and showrunner of IWTV, the two seasons they supposedly love. Do they really think those two seasons were only the way they were because of the two different black writers who wrote for each season -- and even then, only co-wrote one episode each? π
And yes, when such things are actually happening to black actors, they are very easy to spot IMO. I spotted it with Nichole Bahari during Season 2 of Sleepy Hollow, for example. And, though I never watched the show, there are fans of The Vampire Diaries who spotted it with Kat Graham at some point as well.
In contrast, I have seen none of those things with either Jacob or Delainey. Maybe they could be lying, but all I've seen is clear enthusiasm, with Jacob even saying in After Dark EP6 that he wants to play more disturbing characters going forward.
Anyway, at the end of the day, all three seasons of this show were mainly Rolin Jones' doing. Because it is HIS VISION of all the books that are set to be adapted that the show is doing.
So yes, either Rolin is still the legendary genius who made Seasons 1 and 2 of IWTV, or he's always been a racist hack holding Jacob hostage that people now want to paint him as for Season 3.
Even though, again, Jacob himself has yet to show any signs of being miserable, and, given the way his contract is, he could actually walk away at any time if he wanted to and not come back.
Something he clearly wanted to do with his contract after having actually dealt with two actual abusive hack showrunners on Game of Thrones for years.