While speaking on Graham Norton’s Radio Show Podcast on August 27, 2022, the 57-year-old author clarified that she was asked to feature but chose not to.
Earlier, it was speculated that JK Rowling would not be appearing on the Harry Potter reunion special because of the controversies she has been a part of for several years. However, insiders told Entertainment Weekly that her team believed the writer’s archival footage shown in the special “were adequate.”
JK Rowling’s comments have come under fire several times
JK Rowling’s Twitter handle has been infamous for several controversies, especially the one stirred in June 2020. The star shared an opinion piece published on the Devex website and slammed it for stating “people who menstruate,” rather than using the word women.
She was bashed online for her “transphobic” comments, but the writer did not hold herself back from expressing her thoughts in detail in a lengthy Twitter thread.
She further went on to say:
JK Rowling concluded her points by adding:
After her comments, Harry Potter actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint made it public that they do not support JK Rowling’s thoughts, while Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort, and Robbie Coltrane, who plays Hagrid, came to her defence.
In the same interview with Graham Norton, Rowling spoke about her equation with social media.
JK Rowling also received death threats after she expressed her thoughts on novelist Salman Rushdie’s recent stabbing attack in New York.
On the professional front, the author wrote The Ink Black Heart under her pen name Robert Galbraith, which was published in January 2022.
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