The hot Untitled Cobie Smulders pilot (aka Stumptown) was ordered by ABC as the network’s first new drama series order of the year. When the show was picked up on Wednesday, one of the male leads opposite star Smulders in the pilot, Mark Webber, was missing from the cast roster.

His character will be recast, according to reports, since the producers want to take the role in a different way.

The pilot, based on the same-named Oni Press novel, was the Disney-owned broadcast network’s first drama picked up to series this week and had been a frontrunner for a few weeks.

According to Webber, he was fired because he was thought “not handsome enough.”

In a series of tweets, he expressed his “pain,” revealing the misery that performers who are vulnerable to network recastings go through.

“Look, I’m a straight white male so I know my journey has been way less painful in this warped industry, but I’m being recast in a network television show because I’m not handsome enough for the executives,” he tweeted Tuesday, the night before Stumptown (working title) was brought up to series. “It’s important for me to share the real pain we endure in this industry.”

Following that, Webber received — and retweeted — comments from the acting community. Many people expressed their support, including John Ross Bowie (Speechless), Josh Charles, and Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies, A Discovery of Witches), the latter of whom spoke about her own recasting experience: “When I was 19 I was fired from a job because A. I wasn’t famous enough and B. When pressured to hook up with the lead guy by the producers to have more ‘chemistry’ with him I said no and was promptly replaced by someone else,” she stated on Twitter, using the hashtag #industrytruths.

“I’m so curious how they’re going to frame this in their upfront announcement,” Webber said an hour later of the encounter. “What the spin will be? Probably none as I’ve already been deemed insignificant by them. The way I was treated was so degrading. These ‘executive’ decisions are why network tv is dying,” he wrote, adding: “The wonderful woman doing makeup, who like me had came up from the film world, had never dealt with a ‘network’ before. She was so strong with me in the trailer as the executive determined my look on the show.”

Webber went on to say that “the executive determined my look on the show” and that “the way this industry has contributed to women hating their bodies is just ONE of the many things I’ve abhorred for so long. I know a lot of us men generally stay silent with our challenges in this arena.”

“Also the independent film world has been poisoned for a long time too. Artists scrambling, to package their films in a way that’s “commercial”, because we live in a world where the almighty dollar rules. Thankfully there is a movement of us saying FUCK THAT NOISE,” he added.

Webber went on to say on Twitter, “Contrived ‘diverse’ female empowerment shows by stale white men, created for the sole purpose of making them money and giving them power. Contributes nothing to the cultural development of the world.” That tweet, however, has now been removed, with the actor stating that it was merely a passing thought and had nothing to do with the show from which he was dismissed.

Nonetheless, Webber made it plain what his final feelings on the topic were, while also wishing those who would continue to work on the series the best of luck.

He wrote, “I was raised by a single teenage mom. We were poor. We were homeless. We lived in the streets. She became a radical revolutionary leader. I give zero f-cks what filthy rich executives at huge corporations think about me. Never have. Never will.”

Webber was likely still unhappy and enraged when he made the flood of tweets, which include an obscenity, on Tuesday night, before ABC announced the series pickup on Wednesday and presumably soon after he received the news. He definitely should’ve chosen better words, but the sorrow for actors is genuine as they ride the emotional rollercoaster of learning that their pilot has been taken up to series but that they will be replaced.