{"id":392225,"date":"2025-09-02T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392225\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:37:21","slug":"jk-rowling-claps-back-at-chris-columbus-after-he-blamed-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392225\/","title":{"rendered":"JK Rowling claps back at Chris Columbus after he blamed her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old should not be this addicted to Twitter meltdowns <\/p>\n<p>Keyboard warrior JK Rowling is at it again, this time launching into a Twitter rant after director Chris Columbus said there would be no Harry Potter reunion because of her political views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/celebrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Columbus<\/a> directed both <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/harry-potter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Potter<\/a> and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, with later instalments in the franchise being directed by Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, Mike Newell, and David Yates. Though people have long hoped for a <a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/tag\/film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Potter<\/a> reunion, Chris said it\u2019s \u201cimpossible\u201d in light of Rowling\u2019s jarring left turn into the world of rampant transphobia under the guise of feminism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s never going to happen with all that political stuff. Everyone in the cast has their own opinion, which is different from her opinion, which makes it impossible,\u201d he argued in a new interview with<a href=\"https:\/\/thetab.com\/2025\/09\/02\/about:blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t spoken to Miss Rowling in a decade or so, so I have no idea what\u2019s going on with her, but I keep very close contact with Daniel Radcliffe, and I just spoke to him a few days ago, I still have a great relationship with all the kids in the cast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Permanently glued to Twitter, JK Rowling fired back at Chris Columbus in a new post.<\/p>\n<p>JK Rowling listed the \u2018beliefs\u2019 Chris Columbus referenced<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren\u2019t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1962462273496023476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a long Twitter post that has been viewed eight million times, JK Rowling replied to Chris Columbus after dubbing him \u201canother man who once worked with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs another man who once worked with me declares himself saddened by my beliefs on gender and sex, I thought it might be useful to compile a list for handy reference. Which of the following do you imagine makes actors and directors who aren\u2019t involved with the HBO reboot of Harry Potter so miserable?\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder, if everyone hates you, maybe you&#8217;re the problem Rob. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lao1wBMevy\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lao1wBMevy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pandemos (@ThePandemos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePandemos\/status\/1962519201295315044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She continued to outline said \u201cbeliefs\u201d that her former co-worker might have taken issue with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it my belief that women and girls should have their own public changing rooms and bathrooms?<\/li>\n<li>That women should retain female-only rape crisis centres?<\/li>\n<li>That men don\u2019t belong in women\u2019s sport?<\/li>\n<li>That female prisoners shouldn\u2019t be incarcerated with violent men and male sex offenders?<\/li>\n<li>That women should remain a protected class in law, because they have sex-specific needs and issues?<\/li>\n<li>That language should reflect reality rather than ideological jargon, especially in a medical context?<\/li>\n<li>That women shouldn\u2019t be harassed, persecuted or fired for refusing to pretend humans can change sex?<\/li>\n<li>That women should not be threatened with violence and rape when they assert their rights?<\/li>\n<li>That freedom of speech and belief are essential to a pluralistic democratic society?<\/li>\n<li>That troubled minors, especially those who are gay, autistic and trauma-experienced, should be given mental health support instead of irreversible surgeries and drug treatments on non-existent evidence of benefit?<\/li>\n<li>That gay people shouldn\u2019t be pressured to include the opposite sex in their dating pools, nor should they be smeared as \u2018genital fetishists\u2019 when they don\u2019t?<\/li>\n<li>That cross-dressing heterosexual male fetishists aren\u2019t actually oppressed, but having the time of their lives piggybacking off gender identity ideology?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the final line, she said pro-trans movements had done more damage to the \u201cpolitical left\u2019s credibility\u201d than Donald Trump and Nigel Farage \u201ccould have achieved in a century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me have your thoughts,\u201d she ended the post with, to rave applause from Terfs on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>For more like this,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thetabglobal\/?locale=en_GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like The Tab on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: NEIL HALL\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old should not be this addicted to Twitter meltdowns Keyboard warrior JK Rowling is at it again,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,4781,77,3063,8082,5763,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-392225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-harry-potter","13":"tag-lgbtq","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115135449982681208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}