Bel Powley, who's playing Petunia in HBO's Harry Potter show, has given her views on the JK Rowling controversy, and the response is bad.
Bel Powley, who's playing Petunia in HBO's Harry Potter show, has given her views on the JK Rowling controversy, and the response is bad.
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Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app · 33 pts · 17d
Bel Powley says that trans people should be respected, but works to generate a transphobic activist millions of pounds.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 17d
Nostalgia is a bullshit excuse at this point. I can't fathom why people would want to continue to invest the games, reboots, etc.
Every time we give her money she will immediately turn around and hurt people with her status.
Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 16d
Also, to each their own but I think the harry Potter universe is really bland at best.
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 16d
It was cute when it came out and I was 10. I really don't get all these nearly 40yr olds that have turned it into their religion today
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
There is plenty of great modern fantasy out there as well.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
Well now I'm glad I decided to read Percy Jackson instead of Harry Potter when I was 14 at the library.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 17d
I thought the whole point of the show was that the film actors were too progressive.
Quokka@quokk.au · 15 pts · 17d
I think the main point was money. But diminishing the original actors claim to the Harry Potter world is probably a nice bonus.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 17d
Gots to appreciate the irony of these people shading someone else for propping up oligarchy trash though:
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 17d
Destroying civil society is expensive work, therefore new TV show so Joanne can make everyone else as hateful and miserable as she is.
Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 16d