Why are people so stupid?, isn't the whole point of an actor to you know.... act a part??, it's just a play, it's not ****ing real, the actor's job is to do exactly what the director tells them to do. If someone wants to be annoyed at somebody for a character being in a film then be mad at the director or person who created that character, but even then sending death threats to someone over a fictional character from a piece of children's fictional entertainment is quite retarded. Nobody's lives should be made difficult to live because of a part in a film, nor should their career be damaged because of it, it's a job and a bloody good one too, almost any actor in the world would have loved to have taken that opportunity to play a character in a new Star Wars film.
I think I also remember things like this happening to actors who played the parts as a murderer in programs such as Coronation Street many years back, where they'd actually be approached on a daily basis in the street by complete ****ing morons and spat on and have insults thrown at them, whilst just getting on with their separate private lives, just because they played the part of a baddie who they hated watching.
And we're talking about middle aged adults here, not 6 or 7 year olds, it's a very sad world we live in.