Why is it that everyone associated with Harry Potter gets to be a star? There was a thread yesterday about whoever played Lavender Brown, and she also got called “Harry Potter Star,” even though nobody seemed to remember the character even being in the movies. There has to be a cutoff somewhere.
Lavender Brown is one of the most memorable characters (aside from the core actors) from the movies imo, because she’s black in the first several and the instant she becomes relevant to the story she’s white. They’ve got all kinds of wacky magic in that school
This is like you should feel ok watching the new series because some of the staff are conscientious wage slaves rather than full-on fascist bootlickers.
if you are so opposed perhaps you should organise a strike with your coworkers until they introduce a cool trans character into the series. Then watch rowling foam like a rabid rowling.
Even if they did, she’d still use the profits to attack human rights organisations.
The video game had trans characters. But hardly anyone was ever mentioning that because the boycott was louder.
and it was still not loud enough, as people still indirectly funded anti-trans policies by buying that game
Not that “strongly” obviously.
But not enough to pass on that fat-ass check
Then don’t accept the role. Put your money where your mouth is. Coward.
she put her mouth directly on rowlings asshole
I hope you did full diligence on your employers board of directors.
I must have missed the post where ordnance_qf_17_pounder called out his board of directors publicly on their behaviour.
Fuck all these sell-out assholes, pretending like their opinions matter, when they’re still willing to work for her.
Yet her saying this would be noticed by many Harry Potter fans and hopefully make them think. While not taking the role would not communicate anything to the fans
Every Harry Potter fan I’ve met already prerequisites any talk of the franchise with ‘I don’t agree with Rowling, but…’, they already know, they’d just rather support the eradication of trans people than give up their children’s toys.
If only they didn’t buy more of that Potter crap be it physical or digital.
Children generally don’t have a clear and settled opinion on trans rights. This actress saying she doesn’t agree with Rowling can make them think, so it is useful for trans rights that she said this
Personally, I’d be much more interested to hear from actors that turned down roles like this, rather than from the ones still profiting from them.
I posted this in !tvmovies@lemmy.dbzer0.com earlier.
Queer Director Ally Pankiw Shows Turning Down Harry Potter Is as Simple as One Text
The director tells Them that the idea of J.K. Rowling being mad at her is “wild” but “also kinda thrilling.”
See? Now that’s the shit I’m talking about. That’s integrity. Good for her.
Still planning on cashing them checks though ain’t ya Bel?
« I strongly disagree with her … I’ll still play to make her some more money »
I understand that capitalism is dehumanizing us but this piece make me sad
Then don’t take the role. Don’t participate in Harry Potter (Joanna’s Version). Don’t feed the machine
It kind of seems like if a vegan worked on a CAFO and processed livestock for slaughter …
Virtue jerking is funny.
Sounds like they should cancel the series, since it primarily exists to distance Rowling from the naysayers who were in the movies. Now that those in the series are also opposed to her views… what’s even the point anymore?
and i heard she is trying to retcon the og actors, and the series with her views.
The primary existence is easy money.
I think the need to make her cash cow make more cash overrides her need to push her shitty views on other people. That said maybe she plans on making the cash cow do both with the upcoming series, I guess only the people who actually watch it will be the ones to find out.
Fair point. A part of me does want to watch the series, because I was a fan of the books and the movies way back when (before JK Rowling was a dumpster fire). There’s a reason I haven’t bought the movies on Blu-ray/4K. Or the new audiobooks (I don’t have the old ones, either.) And why I won’t be watching the show. I did buy the game, Hogwarts Legacy, on Xbox, on a fire sale, it was like ten bucks. The one with a trans character in Hogsmeade that takes place like 100 years before Voldemort’s birth. Pretty sure JK Rowling does not approve of that game.
Yeah it’s annoying that she couldn’t help herself but use her fame and fortune to push a shitty bigoted opinion. Her books brought so much joy to so many but her opinions have really tainted everything’s she’s touched.
Okay so that’s why I don’t recognize her. She’s not a star from Harry Potter the movies, she’s a star from the soon to be released TV series Harry Potter which I guess it going to be a redo of the adaptabarationisms.
