J.K. Rowling Claims She ‘Didn’t Want to’ Join ‘Harry Potter’ Reunion on HBO Max: ‘It Was About the Films’
usmagazine.comIt was her call. J.K. Rowling said she was not intentionally excluded from HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year.“I was asked to be on that, yeah, and I decided I didn’t want to do it,” the author, 57, told host Graham Norton during an appearance on his Virgin Radio UK show on Saturday, August 27. “I thought it was about the films more than the book — quite rightly.
I mean, that was what the anniversary was about.”The January 2022 reunion featured Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint — who played Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, respectively, in all eight films — on the set with dozen of supporting actors, directors and producers to reflect on making the movie.
Rowling, however, was not present. The special used 2019 archival footage of the Wizarding World creator.“No one said don’t [join the reunion],” the writer, who was promoting her latest Robert Galbraith book, explained to Norton. “I was asked to do it and I decided not to.”Despite some of them speaking out against her, Rowling added that she still keeps in touch with the cast. “I have [kept in touch], yes, I do.
Some more than others, but that was always the case. You know, some I knew better than others,” she said.Rowling first came under fire in June 2020, when she shared multiple posts on Twitter that appeared to slam the trans community. “If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction.
Read more on usmagazine.com
