An open letter to Aladdin’s Mena Massoud: Slow your roll
6 min readDec 10, 2019
Dear Mena,
I can understand the frustration of not being able to get “a single audition” after starring as the lead in Aladdin, which crossed the billion-dollar mark earlier this year. It’s frustrating, especially when your co-lead Naomi Scott followed up Aladdin with another franchise movie later in the year. However, I think venting in such a public way, especially…