JK Rowling ‘won’t care at all’ that the actor chosen to play Severus Snape in HBO’s Harry Potter series has turned on her – as trans activists berated him for not quitting the show to spite the author.
Paapa Essiedu, who this summer will begin filming the show that will make him a multi-millionaire, has signed a letter standing ‘in solidarity’ with members of the LGBT+ community ‘impacted’ by the Supreme Court gender ruling.
An insider with working knowledge of the Harry Potter series told today that Ms Rowling will not be bothered one iota by Essiedu’s decision – and wouldn’t dream of intervening to get him sacked, despite being heavily involved in the project.
‘Jo won’t care at all’, ‘s source said when asked about Paapa’s decision to sign the letter.
‘She knows how powerful Harry Potter is and it’s bigger than its cast. She knows she’s going to come against criticism but she is now uncancelable.
‘For her it’s business as usual’, which is to ‘continue to build the Harry Potter brand’ while supporting women’s rights, the insider added.
It came as trans activists turned on Paapa, accusing him of virtue-signalling because he has not quit the show inspired by the books of their bête noire, branding his stance ‘plain hollow’.
One critic said: ‘It’s a potential career boost for sure. The fact that he is working on a project that puts even more money in her pockets says a lot more about his values than any letter or petition he could possibly sign’.
Another wrote: ‘A signature under an open letter will not undo the damage JK can inflict on the community with the millions she will make from this show’.
A third said: ‘This is just plain hollow. If you truly care, call her out’.
’s source has said that JK and HBO would not dream of firing him – and he is unlikely to quit due to the fame and fortune it will bring.
‘I don’t think they would want that [his sacking] optically.
‘If he chooses to leave the cast then that’s his personal decision but it’s a job on a huge show’, the source said.
The letter, signed by more than 400 industry professionals including other actors from the franchise, claimed the ruling earlier this month ‘undermines the lived reality and threatens the safety of trans, non-binary, and intersex people living in the UK’.
Eddie Redmayne, star of Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts, is also amongst the signatories, having previously admitted he regrets playing a transgender character in The Danish Girl.
Rowling, 59, who has been outspoken on gender issues, supported the ruling, which said that the terms ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.
Essiedu is set to star as Hogwarts teacher Snape, who was previously played by the late Alan Rickman in the film series, in a TV adaption of Rowling’s famous novels, which will reportedly start filming this summer.
The London born actor’s appointment sparked criticism from some fans while others defended him against what they called a ‘racist backlash’.
HBO bosses had stood by outspoken Rowling when many lovers of the boy wizard franchise said she should have nothing to do with the new TV show.
Essiedu’s casting was announced earlier along with news that Emmy winner John Lithgow will play Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer will take on the role of Professor Minerva McGonagall and Nick Frost will play Rubeus Hagrid.
While many applauded the move when rumours of his casting first emerged in March, others raised concerns about potential racist backlash and fought against social media users who questioned whether the British actor would look the part.
Fans noted that as a black actor, playing the role of the professor who is bullied by Harry Potter’s father James during their years as students at Hogwarts would ‘totally change the dynamics of the James/Lily/Snape storyline’.
Elsewhere, critics of the Harry Potter author criticised her role as an executive producer on the show because of her views on transgender issues. HBO chiefs later defended her role, saying Rowling had a ‘right to express her personal views’.
Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, who led the Fantastic Beasts films, Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter film series, and Ghosts actress Charlotte Ritchie, who appeared as a student in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, also signed the letter.
Another signatory was Bridgerton actress Bessie Carter, the daughter of Dame Imelda Staunton, who played Dolores Umbridge in the popular films, and Breeders star Daisy Haggard, who voiced the Ministry Of Magic lift in the Harry Potter films.
Other signatories of the film and TV letter include The Brutalist actor Joe Alwyn, Babygirl star Harris Dickinson, The Last Of Us actor Bella Ramsey, Happy Valley star James Norton, and Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan, who previously said she was ‘disgusted’ by the ruling.
The letter said that the signatories wish to ‘add our voices to the 2000+ signatories of the Open Letter from UK Writers to the Trans Community published last week’, which was signed by Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies and Chewing Gum’s Michaela Coel.
The letter called on organisations including Bafta and the BBC to join them in ‘condemning’ the Supreme Court ruling by ‘using their public platforms to make meaningful commitments to protecting trans, non-binary, and intersex members, talent and staff from discrimination within their respective organisations.’
It said: ‘Film and television are powerful tools for empathy and education, and we believe passionately in the ability of the screen to change hearts and minds. This is our opportunity to be on the right side of history.’
Rowling appeared to celebrate the April 16 ruling by posting a photo of her smoking a cigar on social media, with the caption ‘I love it when a plan comes together’, with the hashtags Supreme Court and Women’s Rights.
The Supreme Court decision was hailed as a victory by women’s rights campaigners, but LGBT+ charity Stonewall described it as ‘incredibly worrying for the trans community’.
The judges said trans people are still protected from discrimination under equalities legislation, and that this interpretation of the law does not cause disadvantage to the ‘potentially vulnerable group’.
While Rowling has been commenting at length on social media about the Supreme Court decision, fans have noted the apparent silence from three main Harry Potter stars who featured in the blockbuster movie adaptations of her books.
Daniel Radcliffe, 35, and fellow Harry Potter stars Emma Watson, 35, and Rupert Grint, 36, have spoken publicly in support of gender ideology – that biologically male trans women should be regarded as women.
And they have each commented in opposition to Rowling’s views on the issue, while expressing their gratitude for her role in their careers.
The author herself appeared to aim a jibe at them last month, when sharing on her X account a response to another user who asked: ‘What actor/actress instantly ruins a movie for you?’
Rowling wrote: ‘Three guesses. Sorry, but that was irresistible.’
And she previously indicated in April last year she would not forgive Radcliffe nor Watson as she criticised celebrities she said had ‘cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights’.
On that occasion the multi-millionaire author hit out at stars accused of using their ‘platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors’ after the release of the long-awaited Cass report into gender treatment in the UK.
That government-commissioned study deemed there to be ‘remarkably weak evidence’ for gender-affirming techniques in children such as puberty blockers.
It also said that ‘for the majority of young people, a medical pathway may not be the best way’ to help when they are ‘presenting with gender incongruence or distress’.
When one fan said they were ‘just waiting for Dan and Emma [Watson]’ to offer a ‘very public apology’ knowing they’d be safe in the knowledge the author would forgive them, Rowling wrote: ‘Not safe I’m afraid.
‘Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.’
Social media users have now been commenting on the apparent silence of Harry Potter film stars in relation to the new judgment by the Supreme Court.
Judges ruled that trans women with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) can be excluded from single-sex spaces if ‘proportionate’.
It marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and women’s group For Women Scotland over the definition of a ‘woman’ in Scottish law.
The case centred on whether somebody with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) recognising their gender as female should be protected from discrimination as a woman under the Equality Act.
The Scottish government had argued that such people were entitled to sex-based protections, meaning a transgender person with a GRC certificate identifying them as female would count towards women’s quota.
But campaign group For Women Scotland claimed they only applied to people born female.
The Supreme Court has now ruled that the words ‘sex’, ‘man’ and ‘woman’ in the Equality Act must mean ‘biological sex’, rejecting any alternative interpretations as ‘incoherence and impracticable’.
Rowling’s evident disagreement with Radcliffe had begun after she called out an article that used the phrase ‘people who menstruate’ instead of women, writing: ‘I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?’
Shortly afterwards, Radcliffe penned an article for an LGBT+ suicide prevention charity in which he insisted that ‘transgender women are women’.
He told The Atlantic last April that he had not spoken to Rowling for years, which upset him, but would not heed her call suggesting he should apologise to detransitioners harmed by puberty blockers.
He said: ‘I will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people, and have no further comment than that.’
Radcliffe added: ‘Jo, obviously Harry Potter would not have happened without her, so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person. But that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.
‘It makes me really sad, ultimately, because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.’
Radcliffe has long been a supporter of the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide-prevention hotline and crisis-intervention resource.
Meanwhile Watson, who became famous after playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, has previously spoken out on the trans debate.
She wrote: ‘Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.
‘I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.’
Their fellow co-star Grint has also previously spoken up, telling the Times in 2020: ‘I firmly stand with the trans community and echo the sentiments expressed by many of my peers.
‘Trans women are women. Trans men are men. We should all be entitled to live with love and without judgement.’
Bafta and the BBC have been approached for comment.
We the undersigned film and television professionals stand in solidarity with the trans, non-binary, and intersex communities who have been impacted by the Supreme Court ruling on April 17th. We wish to add our voices to the 2000+ signatories of the Open Letter from UK Writers to the Trans Community published last week, and call upon members of our industry and cultural bodies to join us.
The Supreme Court’s ruling that, under the Equality Act, ‘woman’ is defined by biological sex, states that “the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man”. We believe the ruling undermines the lived reality and threatens the safety of trans, non-binary, and intersex people living in the UK.
The Equalities & Human Rights Commission’s interim update on the ruling states that trans women are not permitted access to women’s facilities and trans men are not permitted access to men’s facilities, while further suggesting that trans people may also be excluded from using facilities that correspond to their biological sex. We believe this guidance exposes trans people to embarrassment and harassment, and excludes them from participation in public life.
We stand with the many women, including Labour MP Kate Osborne and Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer, who have condemned both the ruling and the EHRC guidance. We applaud them for highlighting the negative consequences that both will have for all women, and the harm that trans and gender nonconforming people face as a result.
The UK film and television industry is at the forefront of cultural change. In recent years we have come together in response to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements to reflect upon our working practices and uplift a broad spectrum of voices in our society. We must now urgently work to ensure that our trans, non-binary, and intersex colleagues, collaborators and audiences are protected from discrimination and harassment in all areas of the industry – whether on set, in a production office, or at a cinema.
We applaud Equity’s response to the Supreme Court ruling and commitment to its trans members, and call upon our cultural institutions, including Bectu, BAFTA, BFI, Directors UK, Picturehouse, BBC, Writers Guild and Channel 4, to join us in condemning the Supreme Court ruling by using their public platforms to make meaningful commitments to protecting trans, non-binary, and intersex members, talent, and staff from discrimination within their respective organisations.
Film and television are powerful tools for empathy and education, and we believe passionately in the ability of the screen to change hearts and minds. This is our opportunity to be on the right side of history.
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Hassan Maarfi, Actor
Jeremy Rwakasiisi, Producer, Sawa
Olivia Gleaves, Post Production Supervisor
Rayn Epremian, Development Coordinator, Motive Pictures
Kareem Alexander, Actor
Sashan Flanders, Actor
Carys Daniels, Actor
Neelu Bhuman, Director, Moving Dreams Studios Ltd
Nicole Sadie Sawyerr, Actress / Artist
Matthew Beard, Actor
Rosanagh Griffiths, Filmmaker, Spinster
Katherine Moran, Actor, Voiceover Artist, Writer & Movement Director
Barbara D’Alterio, Actor
Jessica Jefferies, Casting Director
Ananya Kapoor, PA & Script Reader, Motive Pictures
William Edden, Actor
Craig Sills, Agent, Scott Marshall Partners
Laura Windows, Casting Director, Laura Windows Casting
Emma Pallant, Actor
Chimma Ezekiel, Floor Runner
Bronwyn Lynch,Production Coordinator, Motive Pictures
Eleanor Sutton, Actor, Trade Unionist
Jamie Whitby, Writer / Director
Arabella Cristerna, Central Loader
Isaac Piers-Mantell, Story Producer, New Pictures
Sophie Patterson, Agent / Founder, Patterson Talent Group
Megan Maloney, Agents Assistant, Curtis Brown
Eve Ponsonby, Actor
Simon Grant Jones, Talent Agent, Arun Group
John Carter, Actor
Sanjyokta Deshmukh, Agent’s Assistant / Writer
Isabella Bassett, Producer, Compatible Film & TV
Kitty Johnson, PA to Executive Producers
Tom Stuart, Writer / Director
Elisa Christophe, Senior Awards Manager, Sky Studios
Sammi Willetts, Associate Producer, Cuba Pictures
Lucy Arditti, Script Editor
Ellie O’Brien, Development Coordinator
Chandni Lakhani, Screenwriter
Emily Lowe, Development Executive, Brouhaha Entertainment
Tallulah Greive, Actor
Will Davies, Development Assistant, Dancing Ledge Productions
Natasha Smurthwaite, Script Editor
Beth Grant, Development Producer, Riot Time Pictures
Eleanor Wilson, Digital Producer TV/Film
Chloe Brown,Producer
Taz Findik, Film/TV Development
Eden Scott, Development Coordinator, Eleventh Hour Films
Lydia Drake, Junior Development Executive, The Fold
Bethany Cornelius, Productions and Acquisitions
Blanca Takami Siljedahl, Producer’s Assistant
Atlanta Hatch, Media Rights Coordinator, Curtis Brown
Chloe Tucker, Creative Producer, Yes
Ashley Kruger-Bentley, Actor
Laura Wilsmore, Development CoordinatorRingside Studios
Ewan Tough, Head of Programming, Norwich Film Festival
Roxy Cook, Development Executive, Paper Entertainment
Alfie Johnson, Producer, Little Island Productions
Letty Thomas, Actor
Grace Barber-Plentie, Programmer
Elaine Robertson, Costume supervisor
Laura Scrivano, Director / Writer
Llaima Cardenas, Development Editorm 5 Acts
Carine Hejazi, Investment Manager
Ayoola Smart, Actor
Richard Dobbs-Grove, Film Unit Publicity
Abigail King, Costume Standby
Holly de Angelis, Development Producer, Fudge Park Productions
Joel Singer, Script Executive
Oliver Lyttelton, WriterYes
Nikhil Parmar, Actor / Writer
Ellis Simon Jupiter, Actor
Rachel Causer, Writer
Rachel Yu, Assistant Script Editor
Nancy Harris, Writer
Lauren Jerome, Producer / Writer
Janet Awe, Development Producer, Awethentic Tales Ltd
Ciarán Green, Literary Agent Assistant, Independent Talent Group
Nielsan Bohl, Colourist, Selected Works
Milo Beyts, Producer, Primary Colour Pictures
Rachael Hutchings, Grade Assistant, Grand Central.
Sophie Barlow, Assistant Costume Designer
Stefanie Thurman-Knirsch, Storeman, Dachsbau Ltd
Ebun Osobu, Agent, Winterson’s
Alasdair Buchan, Actor
Eve Gordon, Actor
James Lahaise, Director of Photography
Emily Taaffe, Actor
Niamh Marie Smith, Actor
Amerjit Kaur-Dhaliwal, Artist / Educator, 88 Rainbows and Equity Comms – South Wales
Karla Marie Sweet, Actor & Writer
Leah Sheshadri, Agent, McEwan & Penford
Gemma Barnett, Actor / Writer
Mina Paterson, Story Producer, Carnival Films
Nella Gocal-McConkey, Camera Assistant
Will Dolan, Director, Firewood Studios
Poppy Almond, Actress
Isobel Thom, Actor
Rebecca Osias, Actor & Writer
Madeline Chapman, Producer
Eden Rae Read, Editor Eden, The Assembly Rooms
Sarah Keeling, Film Editor
Jennah Dirksen, Head of Development
Alfie Barker, Writer / Director
Phoebe Strickland, Actor
Tallula Francis, Actor
Chris Clarkson, Actor
Matilda Bailes, Actor
Jessie Hills, Actor
Jamie Rowlands, Agent, Stanton Davidson Associates
Tumi Salu, Actor
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Actor
Paul J. Kennedy, Script editor
Chris Grezo, Producer, Strange Boy Productions
Sasha Eastabrook, Production Assistant
Rhiannon Jones, Producer
Craig Griffiths, Editor, Cabin Edit
Morgan Tovey Frost, Producer
Olive James, Actor
Rosie Blair, Story Producer
Pip Dusadeevijai, Photographer/ Director
Jess O’Kane, Screenwriter
Simon Callisto, Script
Rachael Bellis, Actor
Russell Simpson, Screenwriter & Actor
Claire Peerless, Art Director, Peerless Arts Limited
Adam James, Script Editor, Wall To Wall
Rodrigo Pacheco, Assistant Production Coordinator
Mya Bailey, Publicity Assistant, Fremantle