As HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series continues to face backlash before it even debuts, one star is making his stance clear.
Following his casting as Dumbledore, John Lithgow recently clarified that he has never meet the books’ author J.K. Rowling, and he doesn’t agree with her anti-transgender views, which have plagued the show’s production.
The 2x Oscar nominee explained to The New York Times that he took the role as he sees the books being “clearly on the side of the angels, against intolerance and bigotry.”
After his non-binary Jimpa co-star Aud Mason-Hyde criticized the decision to take the role, Lithgow accepts that “every interview I will ever do for the rest of my life this will come up.”
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Mason-Hyde previously told OUT that the casting “feels vaguely hurtful,” adding, “It was definitely a difficult moment in time.
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