Harry Potter: John Lithgow has no problem working with JK Rowling

“I suppose at some point, I will meet her …” evokes the 79 -year -old star, who will be Dumbledore in the new HBO series.

Again in the eye of the cyclone for a few days, after a controversial law was voted in England, JK Rowling is more than ever a cliting figure.

But John Lithgow does not want to take part in these controversies. Disconnected from the news, the American actor who was chosen to embody Albus Dumbledore In the future series Harry Potter Produced by HBO, did not take into account the positions of the creator of the magic saga, when accepting the role:

“No, for it is first of all a big decision on a personal basis, because it is probably the last major role that I will play in my career”, entrusts the 79 -year -old actor to Sunday Times British. “It is a commitment over eight years. So I especially thought about the question of mortality, and how much it is a very beautiful role of end of the course.”

Shortly after the official announcement, the actor still received an SMS from a “Very good friend, mother of a trans child”sharing him a platform entitled Open letter to John Lithgow: please, get away from Harry Potter.

“It was like an alarm signal,” recognizes lithgow, who nevertheless admits being surprised by the rage that the simple name of Rowling.

“I said to myself: ‘Why is it a subject?’ I wonder how JK Rowling herself lives it.

As for whether the criticisms have started his enthusiasm for the role, his answer is final: “Oh, God no.”

For several years, JK Rowling is regularly criticized by LGBTQ+ associations and by part of his fans for his remarks related to the Terf movement (Trans-Exclusionary radical feminists), which denies the recognition of transgender women. If John Lithgow has never taken a public position on the controversial declarations of the author, he himself embodied several LGBTQ+ characters throughout his career.

In his interview with the Time,, John Lithgow Also recalls that it is not in his first collaboration with controversial figures. Currently, he plays on stage a work by Roald Dahl: Gianta piece mounted in London, which explores the anti -Semitic statements of the writer:

“It is fascinating for me, at this moment of my life, to be as much linked to authors – JK Rowling, Roald Dahl – who are geniuses to captivate children, but who trigger real crises in adults …”

John Lithgow will play Albus Dumbledore, director of Hogwarts, in 2026 on max in France, in the series Harry Potter. The shooting has not yet started.