J.K. Rowling can count on Robbie Coltrane to have her back. The former Harry Potter star came to the author’s defense as she continues to face backlash for her transphobic comments.“I don’t think what she said was offensive, really,” the 70-year-old actor said in a recent interview with the Radio Times, per The Independent. “I don’t know why, but there’s a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended.
They wouldn’t have won the war, would they?”Coltrane, who played Rubeus Hagrid in the cinematic franchise, continued, “That’s me talking, like, a grumpy old man, but you just think, ‘Oh, get over yourself.
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