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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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Nuff said.
It isn't "phobia" when you disapprove of or disagree with something. Phobia is an irrational fear of something. No one is afraid of trannies, they just think they are people suffering from a mental condition, and that men should not be allowed to simply claim to be women, and be let into women's bathrooms and dressing rooms, and to beat the crap out of actual women in sports.
Certainly. Then would you say the same of a tranny teen? That you respect hs or her as a person but not what they are doing?
See....not so hard.
Virtue signaling tinker bell. He directed some good movies like the two Home Alone’s, and I doubt he really thinks this way. But he’s a coward who wants to fit in with the Hollyweird degenerates.
But but but....... don’t you see?
Democrats are democrats because they are poorly educated and on the downside of the bell curve. They don’t understand the words they use.
Their inequality is incurable
You’re the one who’s out of touch, Ms. Mayor. Did you happen to notice the culture shift this country is currently experiencing? You’re so 2019.
Bingo
Transphobia? Who is afraid of a tranny! A far better word is TRANSMISIA, a REVULSION of the trannies.
Also works for homophobia, HomoMISIA is a far better word, a REVULSION of the homo life style.
Semi-auto rifles have been around since 1903. But only became popular for mass shootings(except by organized crime) after the mental hospitals were closed down in the 1970s.
Then mass murders took off like a rocket with handguns till 1984 when the democrats and news media went after semi-auto rifles, something they always said they would NEVER DO.
Believing that women are women is transphobia now.
The new series will fail due to bad and woke casting. The left will then try to claim credit for its failure.
JK Rowling is as woke and liberal as they come. In this ONE issue, she doesn’t toe the line and they are still trying to destroy her.
His upcoming projects...
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001060/
Guess what I won’t be spending my money on...
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