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Jude Law comments on the situation.

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TheHeartbeat · 24/09/2020 09:51

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What do you make of this?

Personally I’m fine with this. Can’t wait for FB 3!

Jude Law comments on the situation.
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Poppyisa · 28/09/2020 07:54

@Lordamighty

He staying neutral which is fine by me & better than trotting out the nonsense that the younger actors do. Let’s be honest though Jude Law knows exactly what a woman is.
This gave me a good laugh, thank you @lordalmighty
BatShite · 26/09/2020 23:52

Very similar to Hagrids answer.

Don't blame anyone for wanting to stay out of the shit pit tbh.

gardenbird48 · 26/09/2020 23:21

Yup. Good guy. I really don’t want to know about his politics, I just want to enjoy his beauty.

Wandawomble · 26/09/2020 23:17

But the time the next film comes out more people will have woken up. I wonder if Newt could be written out in the first scene. That way Eddie Redmayne doesn’t have to compromise his incredibly superior principles anymore...

Jux · 25/09/2020 13:40

He's sitting on the fence because he knows his limitations and that this is outside his remit. Very sensible.

MsTSwift · 25/09/2020 07:18

Load of waffle. Whenever there is anything controversial the lawyers not the publicity / pr people draft dh spends slot of time doing press statements for his clients not sure what the pr people do tbh!

PurpleHoodie · 25/09/2020 07:15

Most definitely what squishee said.

PurpleHoodie · 25/09/2020 07:11

What ErrolTheDragon said.

merrymouse · 24/09/2020 22:41

I think its fine.

I doubt he knows much about the issue, so there is no reason for him to comment on it.

Wearywithteens · 24/09/2020 22:10

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FractionalGains · 24/09/2020 22:00

The fact he is talking about “respectful dialogue” as opposed to squealing “no debate” shows he is, by stonewall standards, a massive transphobe.

I’ll take it. I really will.

ancientgran · 24/09/2020 21:59

I think it is fine, we don't have some right to know his views on anything, he's an actor not a politician. On the other hand I have no problem with actors saying something political, they are people like the rest of us and if we can express a view so can they. It is their choice.

Paddybox · 24/09/2020 21:51

Let’s be honest though Jude Law knows exactly what a woman is.

I thought the same!Wink

I agree he's got a very good publicist and I have no problem with him sitting on the fence...better than spouting shite just to appear woke and on trend

GemmeFatale · 24/09/2020 20:59

The young ones need the woke points.

Radcliffe and Grint haven’t done anything of note since Harry Potter. (Perhaps I’m wrong but I’m struggling to think of anything).

Watson is perhaps the most successful of the three post HP, but she’s reaching the age at which Hollywood wants to cast women who are either considered spectacular or young.

JustTurtlesAllTheWayDown · 24/09/2020 18:25

Good for him. I can't blame him for being a bit fence-sitty since right now. If he was on board with it, he'd spout the usual mantras.
He's clearly no Radcliffe.

Goosefoot · 24/09/2020 16:23

He is a good bit older than many (though not all) of the other HP types that have made public comments. And the other older ones who have criticised her have been women and alas, IME women of my own age seem to fall for all this more than men.

Cupoftea1234 · 24/09/2020 16:17

I have no problem with his statement. It doesn't really say anything. It's better than the drivel that Daniel Radcliffe came out with.
🤢

squishee · 24/09/2020 14:47

It's PR-written word salad.
"Where change lives"? What?

Translation: No comment.

SebastianTheCrab · 24/09/2020 13:42

@Lordamighty

He staying neutral which is fine by me & better than trotting out the nonsense that the younger actors do. Let’s be honest though Jude Law knows exactly what a woman is.
Well he's knocked up enough of them!

I don't really think you can read his message as support though because if this was an IV to promote Fantastic Beasts the Warner PRs aren't going to encourage readers to boycott their own movie via one of the actors in it.

I.e. if Law was all like "yeah! Fuck JKR the evil T*RF" then it's effectively encouraging cinema-goers to boycott the film because she wrote it/created it. By giving a wishy-washy response (evidently written by a PR) it glosses over it.

ErrolTheDragon · 24/09/2020 13:38

It might come across as fence sitting but actually refusing to engage with the pile on is in an of itself a tacit indicator of support for JKR if only in the sense that it acknowledges her right to speak out.

Yes... and, being a man, he may get away with it.

DeRigueurMortis · 24/09/2020 13:36

I'm fine with his response.

Unlike many other notable names in the Potterverse he's not slagging off JKR for lurvie/woke points - something that would have been easy to do.

That's actually in itself a big thing from such a high profile actor.

It might come across as fence sitting but actually refusing to engage with the pile on is in an of itself a tacit indicator of support for JKR if only in the sense that it acknowledges her right to speak out.

IntermittentParps · 24/09/2020 13:15

Include, by that do you mean Jude Law? If so, the point surely is that he's been asked a frankly provocative and dirt-digging question and is answering it skilfully by not committing to anything.

IncludeWomenInTheSequel · 24/09/2020 12:19

Well thank fuck the finest minds are weighing in Confused

IntermittentParps · 24/09/2020 12:18

If he disagreed, he’d have said so for the woke points.

I don't agree. I think he is deliberately and carefully not committing to anything.

FWRLurker · 24/09/2020 12:09

This I think should be read as a message of support. If he disagreed there’d be nothing stopping him.