J.Ok. Rowling is lastly addressing her absence from the Harry Potter reunion particular.
As tremendous followers of the flicks most definitely recall, most of the movie franchise’s stars, together with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, administrators, and producers reunited for the Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts on HBO Max firstly of the 12 months. But notably absent from the tv occasion? The 57-year-old creator of the ebook sequence – though she did seem in archival clips.
So when Graham Norton talked about that J.Ok. was “excluded” from the movie throughout an interview on Virgin Radio Saturday, she shortly set the file straight. The author defined:
“I wasn’t, actually. I was asked to be on that, and I decided I didn’t want to do it. I thought it was about the films more than the books, quite rightly. That was what the anniversary was about. No one said don’t [do it]…I was asked to do it and I decided not to.”
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Even if what she mentioned is true, there is no such thing as a doubt that her becoming a member of the actors from the movie sequence for the reunion can be slightly awkward – to say the least. In current years, Rowling has confronted a ton of backlash for her anti-transgender rhetoric – together with in 2020 when she slammed an article for utilizing the inclusive phrase “people who menstruate” as a substitute of the phrase “women.” She wrote on the time:
“I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”
Several stars of Harry Potter referred to as out the novelist, together with Emma, Rupert, and Daniel. The Woman in Black star even wrote an essay for the LGBTQ+ group The Trevor Project to sentence her problematic views, saying on the time:
“While Jo is unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken, as someone who has been honored to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Project for the last decade, and just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment. Transgender women are women. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I.”
Despite the controversy, J.Ok. has continued to double down on her stance and make dangerous transphobic remarks on her social media. Soooo we really feel like a majority of the forged members wouldn’t be too upset if she continued to skip out on any future reunion!
Elsewhere within the conservation, Rowling touched on her sophisticated relationship with social media after receiving demise threats for expressing her help for Salman Rushdie who was stabbed at a literary competition at New York State’s Chautauqua Institution earlier this month. She mirrored:
“I try to behave online as I would like others to behave… I’ve never threatened anyone. I certainly wouldn’t want anyone to go to their houses or anything like that. Social media can be a lot of fun, and I do like the pub argument aspect of it. That can be a fun thing to do… I sort of have a love-hate relationship with it now. I can happily go for a few days without getting into a [virtual] pub brawl.”
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