In recent years, J.K. Rowling has been embroiled in controversy for her transphobic comments, controversy in which actors who participated in the film adaptation of Harry Potter have also joined, and rejected and regretted his statements.
This position has not gone down well with the author of the successful saga.
After a long history between the author and the Harry Potter stars, their dispute over trans issues will be brought to the stage in the play ‘TERF’ (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist).
At the moment, the play faces the inconvenience of not finding actresses willing to play the female roles. The actors who will give life to Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint have already been selected, but those who will play J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson have not been found, which has delayed the rehearsals of the play, which is scheduled to premiere on August 2 at the Edinburgh Festival.
Initially, 90 actresses showed their interest in participating in the play, although none presented their recorded audition.
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“People are pretty scared about this issue, if we have to be honest.” “We are definitely facing a crisis of freedom of expression. I think artists feel more and more censored and that’s why it’s becoming difficult for us to stage a play,” said Barry Church-Woods, director of the play.
The play was written by Joshua Kaplan, the screenwriter of the Tokyo Vice series and who defines himself as an openly gay man. Her interest in carrying out this project is to show how the opinion of the author of Harry Potter and her protagonist has evolved over time on her social media.
J.K. Rowling Would Rather Go to Jail than Recognize the Trans Community
Via X, formerly Twitter, Rowling shared an image that read “Repeat after us: Trans women are women,” accompanied by the word “No.” In that publication, a user replied “Vote Labour, get a two-year sentence!,” referring to the fact that, in recent days, the Labour Party in the UK proposed to establish a law that will punish for hate crimes those who refuse to use the correct pronouns for people.
To which J.K. Rowling replied sharply: “I will gladly serve two years if the alternative is to speak forcibly and deny the reality and importance of s3x. Let the court case come, I say. It will be more fun than any red carpet I’ve ever been on.”
