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Katie Leung has opened up about her time playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, saying publicists asked her to deny that she received racist abuse from fans. Appearing on an episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast this week, Leung said she read racist messages from fans when her casting in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was […]
Rupert Grint says his Harry Potter experience wasn’t always magical. The 32-year-old actor opened up about his decades-long role during a recent interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. Grint was just 12 when he took on the role of wizard Ron Weasley—a character he would play throughout the franchise’s run, which delivered a total of […]
As part of an interview he was having with a guy he gets mistaken for a lot (see: Elijah Wood), Daniel Radcliffe said that looking back at his acting during the Harry Potter era gives him intense embarrassment. To put it in perspective for non-adolescent movie stars (me…and I assume you?) he wondered to the Empire Magazine audience how […]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has done a lot to divide her fanbase with her controversial comments on trans women and men as of late. Even the cast of the film series based on her books have turned their back on her, with Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe apologizing for Rowling’s comments. Now Deadline reports that Rowling has […]
J.K. Rowling has found herself in hot water for yet again doing something that makes her look transphobic. The Harry Potter author made a highly questionable and seemingly anti-trans tweet on Saturday in response to an opinion editorial article discussing a “more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a […]
Actor Rupert Grint is about to be a father. Grint’s rep confirmed to E! News on Friday that the 31-year-old actor is expecting his first child with 28-year-old actress Georgia Groome. This comes after the couple was spotted in London with Groome donning a growing baby bump. “Rupert Grint and Georgia Groome are excited to announce they are expecting […]
Continuing one of his most memorably active album promo campaigns in years, Lil Wayne dropped in on Tonight Show headquarters Wednesday night for a performance of a Funeral highlight. Up top, catch footage of Weezy’s pretty fucking perfect (and notably energetic) performance of “Dreams,” complete with assistance from The Roots. Wayne also joined host Jimmy Fallon, as […]
From the moment it was confirmed that Robert Pattinson would be next in line to play the Caped Crusader in the upcoming Matt Reeves-directed film The Batman, many people have had their doubts while some have gone as far as to start a petition to have him removed. Pattinson has heard it all, but he admits in a recent interview with The Guardian that no […]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has once again faced accusations of transphobia after she rushed to the defense of a “gender critical” woman fired for transphobic tweets. 45-year-old tax expert Maya Forstater was fired from her job after she questioned the British government’s plans to allow people to self-identify their gender. The Central London Employment Tribunal upheld the […]
The Harry Potter book series has been removed from the library of St. Edward Catholic School in Tennessee after their pastor, Reverend Dan Reehill, deemed that “actual curses and spells” were contained within the novels, The Tennessean reports. “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception,” Reverend Reehill wrote in an email to the parents […]
