Actors love to justify working on anything Harry Potter related right now. While some are calling out the paychecks, others are pretending like they didn’t know JK Rowling is using all her wealth to hurt the trans community.
One such party is Keira Knightley, who was cast as Professor Umbridge in Audible’s “Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio Editions,” faced pushback from fans for joining the series. Mainly because many have boycotted anything Potter related due to Rowling’s views. In recent years, she’s taken her wealth and used it to help fund pushes within the government to take away the rights from trans people in the U.K., effectively helping fund the war on trans rights.
To help stop fun Rowling and her vendetta against the trans community, many have decided against supporting her franchise. Harry Potter does get our money so then Rowling doesn’t get the money. Apparently, Knightley had no idea that the boycott was a thing.
“I was not aware of that, no,” Knightley said in a new interview with Decider. She went on to talk about how she thought we all need to “live to together” and figure out how to respect differing opinions. “I’m very sorry. I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”
Someone funding the anti-trans movement is not simply a “differing” opinion. What Rowling is doing is causing incredibly harm to trans people and those who want to justify their role in a show by saying that it is to help everyone live in a world where we can “all find respect” is incredibly dismissive of what Rowling is choosing to do with her money.
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