Decider<\/a> she wasn\u2019t aware of J.K. Rowling\u2019s connotation due to the author engaging in anti-transgender politics. <\/p>\n\u201cI was not aware of that, no. I\u2019m very sorry,\u201d Knightley responded before continuing on to say, “I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we?” Knightley asked, adding that “we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”<\/p>\n
In 2020, Rowling published an extremely controversial 3,800-word essay on her website, alleging that the transgender \u201cmovement\u201d is doing \u201cdemonstrable harm\u201d to cisgender women. The author said her stance in the essay is pro-feminist and not anti-trans, even though critics in the trans community see her words and comments as a rejection of their identity.<\/p>\n
The main actors from the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d films have condemned Rowling\u2019s words, including Daniel Radcliffe, who played the titular character, and Emma Watson.<\/p>\n
Audible\u2019s new \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series was announced in August. Hugh Laurie, Matthew Macfadyen and Riz Ahmed lead the cast as Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort and Professor Snape, respectively.<\/p>\n
The first audiobook, \u201cHarry Potter and the Sorcerer\u2019s Stone,\u201d is set for a Nov. 4 release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keira Knightley will voice Dolores Umbridge in the recently announced “Harry Potter” audiobooks. The \u201cPirates of the Caribbean\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[73633,4468,35956,20705,18,117,9539,19,17,26262,12379,327,73634],"class_list":{"0":"post-120751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anti-transgender","9":"tag-audiobook","10":"tag-boycott","11":"tag-controversy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-harry-potter","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-j-k-rowling","18":"tag-keira-knightley","19":"tag-movies","20":"tag-respect"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}