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Eddie Redmayne reportedly wants JK Rowling sacked from Fantastic Beasts!

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Alltheprettyseahorses · 17/06/2020 18:59

I really hope this isn't true because this is the brass neck to beat all brass necks (link credit to several lovely Twitter posters) www.looper.com/217223/eddie-redmayne-reportedly-wants-j-k-rowling-let-go-from-fantastic-beasts-franchise/

If it is and I were JKR I'd make sure he never worked in film again, not that anyone would want to hire anyone who displayed this appalling behaviour - especially not someone as mediocre as Redmayne.

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Enderthedragon · 17/06/2020 19:34

I really don't think this is true - she has the rights to it all so couldn't be 'let go' anyway. If he really doesn't want to work for her, he can leave, actors like him are ten a penny. He knows this.

I call bullshit.

jamandtonic · 17/06/2020 19:32

Hahahahahahaha. Dream on sunshine.

Whatsnewpussyhat · 17/06/2020 19:31

This just sounds like made up shit.

skql · 17/06/2020 19:28

i'm pretty sure his conscience doesn't let him take role in "bigoted JKR movie".

prove it eddie!

see us your conscience is stronger than money and fame.

mamalovebird · 17/06/2020 19:28

Eddie Redmayne can get to fuck.

Imnobody4 · 17/06/2020 19:27

Just a rumour, can't believe he is that deluded.

magicstar1 · 17/06/2020 19:26

According to the article, she writes the screenplays for these films ... they’re not book adaptations. There’s her first chapter for the next one....Newt Scaramander has a fatal accident.

skql · 17/06/2020 19:24

red guard here!

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 17/06/2020 19:24

I don’t think this article is true. I actually really like Eddie Redmayne and had a little crush on him after the first FB film. Hopefully he’s done a bit more critical thinking since his first statement. I haven’t seen the other one though as I refuse to watch anything with Johnny Depp in it Angry

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 17/06/2020 19:22

In 50 years time.. who is going to be remembered. The author of a well known (and pretty timeless) children's book series, or a film actor?

If he doesn't like it, he should put his money where his mouth is. Whether she works on the film or not, her name is associated with it. It's her world.

Thisismytimetoshine · 17/06/2020 19:20

@teawamutu

JKR is known for insisting on retaining creative control over projects related to her work. Can't see this being right.
God, I hope she has and I hope she tells him to get to fuck.
teawamutu · 17/06/2020 19:18

JKR is known for insisting on retaining creative control over projects related to her work. Can't see this being right.

KittCat · 17/06/2020 19:18

Well be should fuck off then!

DrDavidBanner · 17/06/2020 19:16

That article is ridiculous. It seems like Looper have definitely chosen their colours.

If it is true the man is a joke, if he had a bit more talent as an actor I'd try to care but he doesn't so I can't

jay55 · 17/06/2020 19:16

Women have so little representation in the film world and he wants one who is successful fired for standing up for other women. Typical man.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 17/06/2020 19:15

I don't understand, the article accuses her of conflating sex and gender. I think her point was, and the point of most of us, is that sex and gender are not the same. I'd have loved them to expand on that point to explain why they think she's confused.

TheIncredibleBookEatingManchot · 17/06/2020 19:13

Hideous little twat.

When he made his last statement about disagreeing with everything JK Rowling said I think it was just before Rowling put out her long statement on her website and I pictured Redmayne sitting smugly down, congratulating himself on being so woke, thinking he could just sit back and let the job offers roll in, then going online and seeing Rowling's statement and screaming "shiiiiiit, everything she says makes sense and now I look like the twat for throwing a domestic abuse survivor under the bus."

I really thought that he and everyone else who'd denounced her would be making a few quiet, sheepish statements about how actually they really like and support JK Rowling and their previous statements had been completely misunderstood.

But now he's just dug himself deeper into an anti-Rowling pit and when this is all over he'll be stuck there all alone.

WisestIsShe · 17/06/2020 19:13

Thread title made me laugh. Seriously, who does he think he is?

RufustheRowlingReindeer · 17/06/2020 19:12

Maybe just speculation

Yeah I reckon speculation

I mean otherwise he would be so stupid that I don’t under how he could walk and breathe at the same time

MrsSiriusBlack1 · 17/06/2020 19:09

Head firmly up his own tedious arse

Mumoblue · 17/06/2020 19:07

Doesn't she own the rights? Confused

Gimmecaffeine · 17/06/2020 19:06

Yeah! Let's unquestioningly accept this article!

SerenityNowwwww · 17/06/2020 19:06

Don’t know if it’s true - but he can vote with his feet. Won’t want that tainted money now would he?

Obnoxious little oik.

ChurchOfWokeApostate · 17/06/2020 19:05

Ffs

Thisismytimetoshine · 17/06/2020 19:04

What a ridiculous little arsehole he is.