A speech against the tide of his former Hogwarts comrades. During the Tony Awards ceremony this Sunday, June 8, Tom Felton said Variety Not being “sensitive” A controversies around JK Rowling’s positions. In recent years, the writer behind the literary saga has multiplied the words considered transbic. The exits, including Daniel Radcliff, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the former actors of Harry, Ron and Hermione, were publicly dissociated.
On the other hand, the interpreter of Draco Malfoy, who will soon find the saga that made it known in the new work Harry Potter and the cursed boy In Broadway, he remains “incredibly grateful” to the British author. “The only thing I constantly remember is that I had the opportunity to travel around the world. I have never seen anything more unusual than Harry PotterAnd it is she who is responsible for it, “he defends the actor who will play at the Scorpius Theater, the son of the character he played in adaptations to the cinema.
The work, played for the first time in London in July 2016 and whose text was published in France in October of the same year, takes place 19 years after the events of the last novel and recounts the adventures of Albus Potter, Harry’s son, during his first year in the most famous magic schools. Member of Casa Slytherin, became friends with Draco’s son, his father’s former rival.
The new actors also affected
In addition to this new adaptation to Broadway, JK Rowling is also involved in the next HBO series that provides each volume a full season. A Titanic project, announced for ten years and most whose casting has been recently revealed.
Among them, some have already faced the writer’s words. Last April, John Lithgow, the next Dumbledore, for example, revealed to Time Having received a letter from a “friend, mother of a transgender person” asking him to retire from the project. This Saturday, June 7, Nick Frost, a future Hagrid performer, said The observer that his opinions did not “coincide at all” with those of the novelist.
Many old disappointed fans regularly call boycott works and derived products Harry Potter whose copyright continues to affect. Last November, Studio Warner Bros., director of HBO, He had defended the author’s right to express his “personal opinions” and at the same time had confirmed his participation in the production of the series.
Source: BFM TV
