{"id":2333278,"date":"2026-03-17T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2333278"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:49:27","slug":"new-harry-potter-star-nearly-quit-tv-series-as-jk-rowling-controversy-instigates-disconcerting-reactions-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-harry-potter-star-nearly-quit-tv-series-as-jk-rowling-controversy-instigates-disconcerting-reactions-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"New Harry Potter Star Nearly Quit TV Series As Jk Rowling Controversy Instigates “Disconcerting” Reactions & Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Harry Potter TV series nearly lost one of its leads.<\/p>\n

Based on the book series by J.K. Rowling<\/a>, the upcoming TV adaptation hails from showrunner Francesca Gardiner<\/a>, with an entirely new cast brought on board following the successful movie saga. Though excitement for the Harry Potter TV show remains high, Rowling continues to generate controversy with her views regarding the transgender community, which has led to backlash against the new cast.<\/p>\n

One actor who has been a target of this backlash is John Lithgow<\/a>, who is playing Dumbledore, and he now tells The New York Times that he considered quitting the show due to Rowling’s controversial views. He ultimately…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Harry Potter TV series nearly lost one of its leads. Based on the book series by J.K. Rowling, the upcoming TV adaptation hails from showrunner Francesca Gardiner, with an entirely new cast brought on board following the successful movie saga. Though excitement for the Harry Potter TV show remains high, Rowling continues to generate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2333279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2333278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/New-Harry-Potter-Star-Nearly-Quit-TV-Series-As-Jk.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333280,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333278\/revisions\/2333280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2333279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}