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For: Showbiz Updated 19 Jan 2022, 13: 28 pm EST
JK Rowling was the great absentee at the meeting organized for the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of the first Harry Potter film
, based on the popular books she wrote about the boy wizard, and it wasn’t hard to guess why.
Your participation in the special of HBO Max was limited to the presentation of several archive videos recorded in 2019, a year before he published an essay in which he expressed his point of view about biological sex and gender identity to explain why she considers that the rights of women are being threatened by the activism of a part of the trans collective.
At that time, many of the actors who participated in the film saga reacted to the controversy caused by Rowling’s statements, assuring that they did not share her point of sight. Now Rupert Grint wanted to clarify which is the current state of his relationship with the author -to whom he has always recognized that he owes him a great deal- and how he deals with the fact that they have such different opinions , since he clarified at the time that he could not remain silent in the face of Rowling’s comments, even though he was not an authority on the rights of trans people, because he wanted to show his support for that entire community.
“I see JK Rowling as an aunt. I don’t have to agree with everything my aunt says, but she’s still my aunt. It’s a complicated thing,” Rupert said in an interview with The Times. .
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