'Rowling has offered no response to her protégés’ criticisms, but the same actorly anxiety to disown Rowling, though, is not just confined to the cast of the Harry Potter films'
We are used to actors being fickle in their public posturing. Think Emma Thompson, championing Extinction Rebellion one minute and then being photographed the next in the first-class cabin of a fuel-guzzling plane. But, by any measurement, the speed with which those young unknowns whose glittering careers were launched by the Harry Potter franchise have turned this week on its creator, JK Rowling, in a row about trans-phobia, is breathtaking.
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