Daniel Radcliffe Says J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric “Makes Me Really Sad” & He Doesn’t “Owe” Her Support

The mayor of Greater Manchester has defended the £500,000 plus fee spent on the rebranding of buses as part of the new Bee Network system.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and EventsMay kicked off with Variety celebrating the Power of Women New York, where Glenn Close helped honor – and have some fun on the red carpet with – Mariska Hargitay. In Sydney, Anya Taylor-Joy stunned in a gold ensemble at the “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” premiere and Austin Butler was in Beverly Hills taking part in an Emmy FYC event for “Masters of the Air.”Daniel Radcliffe celebrated his first Tony nomination for his work in “Merrily, We Roll Along” at the awards’ annual nominees press junket.

All of Broadway’s biggest stars were in attendance at the 2024 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Event to kick off the theatre awards season!

Lexi Carson Nick Jonas and Paul Rudd are set to star in “Power Ballad” a musical comedy from John Carney, who directed “Once” and “Sing Street.” They are currently filming in Dublin. “Power Ballad” was written by Carney and Peter McDonald. The official logline for the film reads, “An uplifting music-driven story about a wedding singer, a rock star and the song that comes between them.” Jonas and Rudd are both known for their work on-screen with Jonas’ credits including “Camp Rock,” Scream Queens” and “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and a TV performance of “Jersey Boys Live!” Rudd is known for “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire,” “Only Murders In The Building,” “Knocked Up” and Marvel’s Ant-Man films.

Daniel Radcliffe has broken his silence on J.K Rowling's recent comments criticising the Harry Potter star and his co-stars.

Ellise Shafer “Harry Potter” star Daniel Radcliffe is opening up about J.K. Rowling‘s continued comments against trans women, saying that it “makes me really sad.” In a new interview with the Atlantic, Radcliffe said that he has had no direct contact with Rowling since her tweets in June 2020 that were criticized by many as anti-trans.

JK Rowling’s comments about the trans community.The author of the best-selling Harry Potter series has received significant backlash in recent years for anti-trans comments she has made online.Radcliffe, who played the famous wizard in the film series, has addressed Rowling’s comments previously, expressing his disagreement and lack of association with her views.Now, the actor responds again to her controversial comments in a new interview with The Atlantic.“It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he said. “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.”In 2020, Radcliffe defended the trans community in an essay he wrote for the Trevor Project, an organisation focused on suicide prevention among the LGBTQ+ community.In the essay, Radcliffe referenced Rowling, writing: “Transgender women are women.

Daniel Radcliffe has been a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and is disappointed in J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans comments over the years.

Daniel Radcliffe is addressing JK Rowling‘s most recent anti-trans comments.

Tony Awards nominations. The two shows, one focused on a pre-celebrity pop titan coming into her talent and the other examining a darker, druggier side of the music industry, picked up a leading 13 nods. They were followed closely by “The Outsiders,” a musical adaptation of S.E.

a highly competitive and unpredictable one. Fifteen new musicals opened during the past year, which is the widest field in at in at least three decades.

It looks like Harry Potter star Rupert Grint may be the next actor to grab a linen jacket and head off to the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie in the hit show Death in Paradise.There has been a vacancy since Ralf Little’s character Neville Parker departed the island with his love, DS Florence Cassell (Joséphine Jobert) after five years of solving murders. However, since his departure there has been much speculation about who could take on the role.

challenge the law in court last month, were likely to suffer “immediate” harm, in the form of reduced access to health care providers willing to treat their gender dysphoria, if the law — which imposes penalties on doctors who prescribe gender-affirming treatments — were to take effect.Holbrook found that, because the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their lawsuit, it was best to issue a temporary restraining order “maintaining the status quo while the Court can more thoroughly review the evidence and argument following a full hearing.”Holbrook also noted that the whole law had to be blocked because lawmakers combined the bill banning gender-affirming care with a separate bill banning transgender athletes from women’s sports to gain the necessary votes to pass the Republican-controlled state legislature.In December, Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed the bill from taking effect, expressing qualms about infringing on parents’ rights to make medical decisions for their own children.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Any photographer who shoots what’s happening in the gleaming, raw, people-packed carnival of New York City — the stores and walls and towers and alleyways, the celebrities, the endless cross-section of humanity — already has an artistic leg up. But the other leg is what he or she does with it. Weegee shot the violent night world of sin and crime.

Broadway star Lindsay Mendez and her beau J Alex Brinson have tied the knot!

Aramide Tinubu Parenting inspires varying schools of thought. While some relish the tasks of caretaking, others speak candidly about the hardships of child-rearing, sharing the true realities of motherhood that have been glamorized over time. In “Mary Jane,” the 2017 play written by Amy Herzog and making its Broadway debut under Anne Kauffman’s direction, viewers witness both a young mother’s joy and her anguish as she works around the clock to keep her disabled toddler alive.

Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff as ring bearer and officiant, respectively, in her New York City nuptials to fellow actor J. Alex Brinson.Her 3-year-old daughter, Lucy, from her marriage to Philip Wakefield, also played a major part in the intimate Central Park ceremony: She stood by her mom’s side as the flower girl.The couple met while starring alongside each other in OWN’s “All Rise” and were engaged on Christmas Day last year.

Harry Potter star Warwick Davis enjoyed a date night with his wife Samantha in the couple's final photo together before her death.The actor has announced his wife passed away on 24 March following a battle with sepsis. Warwick, 54, who is best known for playing professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter franchise, posted a selfie with Samantha back in October to his personal Instagram account.The loved-up couple beamed for the camera as they got ready for a date night together.

Warwick Davis' wife Samantha shared a touching message to her children just weeks before her untimely death, expressing her pride and love for them. Harry Potter actor Warwick announced the heartbreaking news that his wife Samantha had passed away at the age of 53 on 24 March. In a statement filled with sorrow, he said: "Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family.

the BBC, revealing that his wife, whom he referred to as his “favorite person,” had died on March 24. He did not disclose the cause of death.“Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family,” the actor, 54, told the outlet.