Nick Frost disables comments on Harry Potter post after backlash to HBO casting
Nick Frost disables comments on Harry Potter post after backlash to HBO casting
Nick Frost has disabled comments on his Harry Potter casting post after backlash to his involvement in the HBO series.
Shaun of the Dead actor Nick Frost has disabled comments on a post celebrating his casting in HBO’s Harry Potter series, after fans reacted with upset over his involvement.
HBO announced yesterday (14 April) that the 53-year-old British actor, known for Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, will star as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in its TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
While mega fans of Rowling’s wizarding world have praised HBO’s casting team for lining up Frost as Hagrid, others have taken aim at Frost and his fellow future Harry Potter stars over their involvement in a series being executively produced by Rowling.
JK Rowling has repeatedly made her ‘gender-critical’ views on the transgender community clear, while she was recently criticised by asexual campaigners for branding International Asexuality Day “fake oppression” day.
Comments have now been disabled on his celebration post after fans pointed out that he would be working on a Rowling project.
Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
JK Rowling funded this new anti-trans UK supreme court ruling. being a Harry Potter fan in 2025 is INDEFENSIBLE and inherently makes you a transphobe
being a jk rowling fan*
We're all still allowed to like Harry Potter, just like we're still allowed to dance to Michael Jackson songs
100%. I still enjoy reading Asimov and Heinlein despite them being bigots. I just don't support the behavior and call it out for being bad when I see it.
she essentially the british version of musk, on all the anti-trans thing.
She's a transphobe, but I dont think she's a nazi, right? Nor does she own a bunch of companies where she abuses her employees?
i mean shit did just straight-up do holocaust denial a bit ago
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/15/jk-rowling-trans-nazis-holocaust-denial/
I hope nobody will watch this and they’ll loose a bunch of money. Beating the dead horse is an awful trend in television.
Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
He's an actor, it's a paying acting job. Are these supposed "fans" he might lose going to replace that pay check? No? Then shut the fuck up.
Yes, an actor with his castings has absolutely no options 🙄 this is the only one he got a call-back for, obviously
I've already seen Harry Potter Balenciaga and frankly AI art is an improvement to the franchise
Nick frost is a fine casting but Snape? He’s gonna be Kanye East.
Alan Rickman was the absolute perfect casting for Snape. Nobody else could have brought him to life so well and so true to the books.
Of the entire film cast I think everyone could have been replaced except for Snape, therefore it does make sense to be bold and try something different in his casting for the new show.
Maybe but putting a black man in the wizard KKK rubs me wrong. It’d make more sense to make Harry himself black, heck Harry himself has a Black godfather. If we’re doing away with the whole wizard KKK vibe too, making Sirius and Bellatrix black would be funny.
Edit: But like half black with a white dad imo. Because James was old money English.