(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1, "Harry Potter" Daniel Radcliffe recently explained why he publicly opposed the writer J.K. Rowling, who gave him acting career.

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(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1, "Harry Potter" Daniel Radcliffe (Daniel Radcliffe) recently explained why he publicly opposed the writer J.K. Rowling, who gave him acting career.

Radcliffe published an open letter supporting transgender groups in 2020, saying that "transgender women are women", opposing Rowling's position on the rights of transgender people. In response, Radcliffe said that he wrote to let fans know that Rowling did not represent everyone. He also said that if he had said nothing at that time, "I can't face myself in the mirror."

(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1,

Screenshot of the American entertainment magazine "Variety" report

Daniel Radcliffe is 33 years old and a British actor. In 2000, 11-year-old Radcliffe was selected to play the protagonist "The Boy Who Lived" Harry Potter in " Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ". This is the first time that the magical literary novel "Harry Potter" created by Rowling has been brought to the big screen. Since then, Radcliffe has performed all the way to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2)" released in 2011. During this time, he became one of the world's highest-paid actors and received worldwide reputation, popularity and critics.

(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1,

Stills of Daniel Radcliffe starring Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

American entertainment magazine Variety called Rowling the person who "gives him (Redcliffe) acting career" in a report on the 1st. Despite this, when Rowling was involved in the debate about the rights of transgender groups, Radcliffe stood opposite Rowling.

According to reports, in June 2020, Rowling posted a series of comments on Twitter, believing that discussing gender identity would negate physiological gender. Among them, Rowling mentioned, "If gender is not real, then the real life of women around the world will be erased. I know and like trans people, but erasing the concept of gender will deprive many people of the ability to discuss their lives meaningfully." However, Rowling's act of speaking out for "female gender rights" has caused her strong opposition. In July of that year, Rowling was even expelled from the "original book" by Leaky Cauldron, one of the two major fan websites of Harry Potter.

(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1,

"Broken Cauldron Bar" website statement screenshot

. When Rowling was boycotted by a large number of fans and netizens, Radcliff issued an open letter in August 2020, expressing his opposition to Rowling.

Redcliffe posted the letter on the website The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention efforts in the LGBTQ community, which Radcliffe has supported for years.

In this open letter, Radcliffe said, " transgender women are women", and wrote: "Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of trans people, contrary to all the advice given by the Professional Health Care Association, who have expertise on this issue than Jo (Jo, Rowling's nickname) and I." In the letter, he apologized to readers who felt that Rowling's remarks brought pain to him, and said he hoped that they would retain what was valuable to them in the Harry Potter novel series.

According to Variety, after Radcliffe's letter, several other Harry Potter starring also publicly opposed Rowling's position.

(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1,

J.K. Rowling (second from left) took a photo with the starring actor of the Harry Potter series. Two years later, Radcliffe talked about the reasons why he publicly expressed his opposition to Rowling in 2020 in an interview with the film information and comment website IndieWire.

"When I did that, I felt like I really, really needed to say something because especially after finishing Harry Potter, I met a lot of queer and trans kids and young people who had a very big sense of identity with Harry Potter. So seeing them hurt that day (for Rowling's remarks), I wanted them to know that not everyone in this series thinks that way.It really matters,” Radcliff told IndieWire in a recent interview.

Radcliff also added, “It really matters because I’ve been working with the Trevor Project for over 10 years, so I think I can’t face myself in the mirror if I don’t say anything. ”

However, according to Entertainment Weekly on the 1st, before Radcliff made the above remarks, another actor of Harry Potter, Voldemort , defended Rowling.

Fiennes talked about Rowling's injustice in an interview with New York Times in October that Rowling was treated unfairly for her views on transgender groups. He said bluntly, "The verbal violence against her is disgusting and terrible. "He then added that he understood that some people were angry at Rowling's remarks," but this was not a lewd, super-right fascist. It's just a woman saying, 'I'm a woman, I think I'm a woman, I hope to be able to say I'm a woman. ’I understand her thoughts, too. Even though I'm not a woman. ”

(Observer Network) According to the American entertainment magazine Variety and Entertainment Weekly, many foreign media reported on November 1,

Fiennes and Voldemort played by him

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