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Posted on 08/27/2025 11:27:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“It's just sad, it's very sad,” Christopher Columbus said in a recent interview.
Former Harry Potter director Christopher Columbus has become the latest member of the film franchise to address J.K. Rowling’s transphobia, calling it “very sad.”
Columbus helmed the first two films in the Potter series: 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. When asked about Rowling’s well-documented TERF screeds in a new interview with Variety, the filmmaker responded: “I like to sometimes separate the artist from the art, I think that’s important to do. It’s unfortunate, what’s happened.”
“I certainly don’t agree with what she’s talking about,” Columbus added. “But it’s just sad, it’s very sad."
These days, Rowling makes headlines for her transphobia as often as she does for penning one of the most well-known book series in the world. Earlier this year, the billionaire launched a self-funded organization entirely dedicated to offering legal funding for cases concerning what she calls “women’s sex-based rights,” a euphemism for anti-trans advocacy seeking to exclude trans women from “single-sex” spaces.
Even after Rowling made it clear that at least part of the fortune she makes off of the Potter franchise will go toward efforts to legislate trans people out of public existence, HBO remains dedicated to milking the series for all its worth. The network is currently working on a controversial new TV adaptation of the Potter books, which is executive-produced by Rowling and scheduled to arrive in 2026. Network representatives said she is “very, very” involved in the project and her contributions have been “invaluable.”
Columbus expressed zero interest in returning to the franchise, telling Variety, “No, I’ve done it, you saw my version. There’s nothing left for me to do in the world of Potter.”
However, the director clarified that this doesn’t mean he’s against the HBO show’s existence.
“The great thing about it is that with the first and second and third book, we wanted to do it all,” he said. “We wanted to bring all of that onto the screen, and we didn’t have the opportunity… So for me, it’s an opportunity to bring all those scenes to life.”
Although Columbus’ time in the Potter world is long over, the new show’s stars are already making headlines for their responses to Rowling’s politics and their wider impacts.
Paapa Essiedu, who will play Severus Snape in the HBO series, was one of 400 TV and film professionals who signed an open letter condemning the U.K. Supreme Court's April ruling that the legal definitions of “man” and “woman” are based on a person’s “biological sex” at birth (ironically, Rowling reportedly donated £70,000 to the anti-trans organization For Women Scotland, whose lawsuit against the U.K.’s Equality Act led to the Supreme Court ruling). The signature was widely contrasted with Rowling’s position.
That same month, John Lithgow — who is set to play Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the show — told The Times of London that, after booking the role, he received a text from “a very good friend who is the mother of a trans child,” linking to a Book Riot article titled “An Open Letter to John Lithgow: Please Walk Away From Harry Potter.” Yet when the outlet asked whether controversy over Rowling’s transphobia made him reconsider starring in the HBO show, Lithgow said, “Oh, heavens, no.”
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All she said is that they are not actual women. That’s it.... He’s a coward, and want’s to direct more films. She’s a billionaire, and doesn’t need to write another book.
Sooooo....
She is a Heroine in more ways than one.
When transgenders were all the rage, she stood alone in saying that there were only two genders: me and women.
She was vilified for it, but stood her ground and never wavered. A heroine.
BTTT
In the way wacky world of wokism, I cannot BELIEVE that someone with the birth name “Christopher Columbus” hasn’t gone to Court and legally, officially changed his name to Chrissy Colon.
Nice EDITORIAL hit piece. Sheesh.
I guess she should support mass shootings too.
"The best of what's queer"Granted, not that there's anything wrong with that, but it makes one wonder what you were doing on that site in the first place.... LOL. just sayin'... :-)
She’s not a heroine, she basically started the trans movement.
The was part of the feminist movement that insisted that there were no differences between men and women, that all differences in personality, preferences, and behavior were social conditioning.
Let’s be honest, the trans movement is just the logical follow up to that position. If there are no inherent difference between the 2 sexes, then naturally it’s not a problem for a person to switch from one to other.
Until she and her cohorts renounce feminism, then they are still part of the problem. For us, it’s like a civil war in our enemy camp, we can use it to our advantage, but never lose sight that both sides of that civil war are our enemies, the moment on of those 2 side emerge victorious, they will still try to come for us.
I used to think that calling it “transPHOBA” was stupid because who fears the freaks?
Now, with so many of them going on killing sprees and committing other horrendous crimes, it seems the name has become a thing.
Idiot.
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