{"id":220278,"date":"2026-02-01T20:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/john-lithgow-on-playing-dumbledore-in-harry-potter-series-and-j-k-rowlings-trans-views\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T20:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:36:07","slug":"john-lithgow-on-playing-dumbledore-in-harry-potter-series-and-j-k-rowlings-trans-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/john-lithgow-on-playing-dumbledore-in-harry-potter-series-and-j-k-rowlings-trans-views\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lithgow on Playing Dumbledore in \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 Series and J.K. Rowling\u2019s Trans Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Lithgow says J.K. Rowling&#8217;s anti-trans views are &#8220;inexplicable&#8221; and &#8220;people insisted I walk away&#8221; from playing Dumbledore in HBO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HarryPotter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#HarryPotter<\/a> but &#8220;I chose not to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take the subject extremely seriously. She has created this amazing canon for young people and it\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/czGsl30G2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/czGsl30G2c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2018034373262455194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">February 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Asked about J.K. Rowling\u2019s trans statements, John Lithgow said: \u201cI take the subject extremely seriously. She has created this amazing canon for young people and it has jumped into the consciousness of the society. It\u2019s about good versus evil, kindness versus cruelty. I find her views ironic and inexplicable. I\u2019ve never met her, she\u2019s not really involved in this production at all. But the people who are, are remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cIt was a hard decision. It made me uncomfortable and unhappy that people insisted I walk away from the job. I chose not to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2018034373262455194?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131855127.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lithgow says J.K. Rowling&#8217;s anti-trans views are &#8220;inexplicable&#8221; and &#8220;people insisted I walk away&#8221; from playing Dumbledore in HBO&#8217;s #HarryPotter but &#8220;I chose not to do that.&#8221; \u201cI take the subject extremely seriously. She has created this amazing canon for young people and it\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/czGsl30G2c \u2014 Variety (@Variety) February 1, 2026 Asked about J.K. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}