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Louis Chilton warns actors to avoid Harry Potter remake due to ‘hated’ JKR

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TwistedWonder · 14/02/2025 15:50

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/harry-potter-tv-show-cast-remake-jk-rowling-b2698351.html

More absolute nonsense about JKR being hated and anti trans

For journalists they’re not very good at understanding actual words are they?

Actors be warned: the Harry Potter remake should be avoided like the plague

John Lithgow is the latest star tipped to feature in the lavish new adaptation of JK Rowling’s books. For any actor to get involved at this point would be a grave error for so many reasons, writes Louis Chilton

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/harry-potter-tv-show-cast-remake-jk-rowling-b2698351.html

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TheKeatingFive · 14/02/2025 20:08

Who even is this person? 😵‍💫

Britinme · 14/02/2025 20:01

I put a couple of comments on that article and noted that the vast majority were pro-Rowling.

zanahoria · 14/02/2025 18:14

I love the fact that this garbage is churned out by a newspaper owned by a Russian oligarch and a dodgy Saudi.

GalacticTowelMaster · 14/02/2025 16:42

Chilton

GalacticTowelMaster · 14/02/2025 16:41

I wonder if Chiltern would have advised actors to avoid appearing in Roman Polanskis or Woody Allen films on moral grounds... somehow me thinks not

FranticFrankie · 14/02/2025 16:13

Not this old chestnut again
Mr Chilton seems a tad angry
Silly man
Most of the comments are sensible

napody · 14/02/2025 16:08

Pudmyboy · 14/02/2025 16:03

Crikey, it's like we are back in 2018!
I was amused by this, trying to imply that being part of a franchise ruins careers: just look at the careers of Radcliffe, Watson and Rupert Grint – all of whom struggled to find their creative footing in the wake of Potter’s success.
There may be a quite different reason for their lack of success 🤔
The comments are largely in favour of JK and challenge the 'anti-trans' slur, except for one, so the author doesn't have the captured audience they may think they have

Oh that's hilarious- they've got a LOT further in their careers with her than they ever would have without her! Now them not being Oscar winning actors is her fault too... a woman's place truly IS 'in the wrong'.

nauticant · 14/02/2025 16:06

They're assuming that JKR doesn't sue people. Not quite true. She avoids it as much as possible but sometimes, when the right target emerges, she will sue.

Pudmyboy · 14/02/2025 16:03

Crikey, it's like we are back in 2018!
I was amused by this, trying to imply that being part of a franchise ruins careers: just look at the careers of Radcliffe, Watson and Rupert Grint – all of whom struggled to find their creative footing in the wake of Potter’s success.
There may be a quite different reason for their lack of success 🤔
The comments are largely in favour of JK and challenge the 'anti-trans' slur, except for one, so the author doesn't have the captured audience they may think they have