Eddie Redmayne reportedly wants JK Rowling sacked from Fantastic Beasts!

if JKR was in favour of trans rights you'd suddenly think she was overrated and full of herself.

You're dead wrong there.

I still like and respect Margaret Atwood, and read her books, despite her saying TWAW.

Some of us can bear people having differing opinions - even if I would ask her some searching questions if I ever got the chance.

I also haven't denigrated Emma Watson in any way at all (others here may have - that's their call - but I bet no feminist has told her to "suck their dick" because feminists don't tend to do that...) because I actually quite like her. I've seen Emma Watson get horrific online abuse from men, when she spoke at the UN, and awful sexualised attention from men and trolls - upskirting/objectification/talking about when she'll "legal"

It was disappointing to see her in the queue to stab JK in the back. It just makes me despair of some young women a bit - in such a hurry to give away women's rights in favour of trans rights.

I agree, he is an odious twerp, but this story looks dubious.

Oh please, this 'article' is rubbish. Scroll down to see the next one, which is also rubbish.

Let's not give Redmayne a kicking over a clearly fictional piece in a publication that makes the Daily Sport looks like serious commentary.

Ugh that's such biased reporting.

In his snotty, up-his-own-arse, holier-than-thou comment, he accused JKR of "conflating sex with gender", and says that a "consensus of medial professionals" has confirmed that they aren't the same.

The idiot is actually CONFIRMING what JKR says, and hasn't the sense to realise it, he is so busy being "woke".

JK should get Fionne Orlander a part, Fionne loves all that magical/fairy/fantasy stuff. It would make Fionne very happy and wind the anti-woman-activists up no end!

Odious little twerp.

Mind you "you won't believe what this man found in his pancakes" has made me chuckle far too much.

Ooh, ooh! This thread gives me the opportunity to paraphrase one of my favourite AskDanielRadcliffe tweets!

‘If Eddie Redmayne truly believes that Transwomen ARE women, why did he, a man, accept the role of The Danish Girl? Shouldn’t he have stepped aside and let a woman play the role?’

it is a shark feeding frenzy, they have made JK Rowling is the bait.

I have no time for any of them that are using her as bait because they think it is the WOKE thing to do. I have told my kids what dickheads they all are and why they should never by sheep.

Oh no, what you do is clearly much more subtle.

'Trans rights' being the elimination of female rights, let's remember that.

I'm not going to have much enthusiasm about anyone who thinks female rights should be removed and female people should be relegated to support humans.

Oddly enough I'll be able to be unenthusiastic without rage, or threatening to rape or harm anybody for daring to be misogynistic.

He'd be totally fucking unreasonable to demand this. I wonder if this is ridiculous gossip, or he really has?

All these actors shitting on a woman whose writing they have hugely benefitted from makes me sick.

One article of dubious credibility and you're all viperish about whoever has dares to maybe commit this atrocity. They're always mediocre or rubbish suddenly...if JKR was in favour of trans rights you'd suddenly think she was overrated and full of herself.

Am I supposed to know who Eddie Redmayne is?

I wouldn't be banking on anything on looper being true.

It's a click bait site full of film/game rumours, gossip, lists and "you won't believe what this man found in his pancakes" articles

What an entitled man.

That means adult human male, btw.

He's banking on the fact one of the Harry Potter screenwriters has been brought on board for the third film but as co with JK. Maybe he's not well read enough to have come across Don't bite the hand that feeds you?

Lets just find out if this rumour is definitely true before we start slagging him off.

Saw this on Spinster. Need one for Redmayne.

Hmm. Anyone think they could possibly, you know, recast the part if Redmayne doesn't want to work with JK?

Actors do that all the time. They're interchangeable. We had two different Dumbledores, multiple James Bonds, it's not a biggie at all. Writers and owners of franchises on the other hand... no, not so much.

The ungrateful little toad! Can we start a petition to boycott him?...and actually everyone who’s been an ungrateful little toad lately to JKR?

If that's true he's an absolute idiot. Fantastic beasts wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the fantastic JK Rowling.

I'm 100% certain this isn't true, because it's her franchise. He's an actor. He doesn't get to make that call.

I suspect he was Properly Educated when making the Danish Girl, and doesn't really understand the other side. It's not one most people have dared to voice until very recently. I rolled my eyes at his comments, and feel it would have been courteous of all of them to at least seek to speak with her before voicing an opinion (admittedly, for all we know one or more may have done). But I don't think this story is true in any way. It doesn't make sense on its own terms.