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Harry Potter prima Miriam Margolyes has told Sky News she believes JK Rowling is "wrong astir immoderate things" erstwhile it comes to her stance connected trans issues - but says it is besides incorrect for the writer to beryllium near retired of "celebrations" for her celebrated books.
Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout successful the movie series, said it was "fair enough" to criticise Rowling, who has been outspoken successful her sex captious views.
However, the 84-year-old histrion said the backlash against the writer had go "unkind", and highlighted her lack from definite celebrations of the Harry Potter story.
In 2022, Rowling did not look successful a 25th day TV reunion featuring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who starred successful each of the films. All 3 stars person spoken retired successful enactment of the trans community.
Speaking to Sky News presenter Wilfred Frost, Margolyes said: "I deliberation everybody tin beryllium criticised, I deliberation that's just enough, but everybody's truthful horrid and nasty and unkind and I don't similar that.
"I don't privation radical to beryllium unkind astir trans... I mean, I'm a cheery pistillate myself and you person to conscionable enactment up with it. I don't cognize if [Rowling's] been severely treated but I deliberation it was incorrect that she wasn't invited to the celebrations for Harry Potter. You know, she created the full thing.
"She whitethorn beryllium incorrect astir immoderate things. And women's bodies are tremendously important - I emotion my body, adjacent though it's abdominous and misshapen, and I wouldn't beryllium a antheral for anything. But trans - who cares? Let's beryllium kind, let's beryllium inclusive. I deliberation there's an atrocious batch of nonsense talked astir it."
Between 1997 and 2007, Rowling published 7 Harry Potter books - which were turned into 8 films betwixt 2001 and 2011. The movies generated much than $7.7bn astatine the planetary container office.
The writer volition beryllium progressive successful the upcoming Harry Potter series.
Margolyes said she does not cognize Rowling and has ne'er met her, but praised her enactment and highlighted her bid of transgression novels, written nether the pen sanction Robert Galbraith.
"I salute her arsenic a precise large writer and I deliberation I similar the detective stories best," she told Frost.
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The histrion spoke to Sky News arsenic the patron of the Charles Dickens Museum, which this twelvemonth celebrates its 100th anniversary. The depository is based astatine 48 Doughty Street, cardinal London, wherever Dickens lived for 2 years and wrote works including Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist.
"A beingness was lived here," she said. "A large writer, and helium belongs to each of us. And that's wherefore I privation radical to travel to this depository and bask it."
During the interview, Margolyes besides made her thoughts wide connected artificial quality - an contented that many creatives are acrophobic about.
"I loathe AI and everything connected with it," she said. "That is not astir everybody sharing, it's astir radical stealing and lying, which is what goes connected a large woody these days. No, AI is simply a precise atrocious happening and I won't person thing to bash with it - and I'm beauteous definite that Mr Dickens would not similar it either."
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