David Tennant is standing up against Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
In a report from The Guardian, Tennant, who starred in 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” shared his thoughts about Rowling while answering questions about the author asked by a group of neurodivergent individuals on ITV’s “The Assembly.”
He said, “J.K. Rowling is a wonderful author who’s created brilliant stories, and I wish her no ill will, but I hope that we can all as a society, just let people be. Just get out of people’s way.”
In the same interview, Tennant compared the treatment of transgender people in the current age to a 1988 policy by the UK government that prohibited local authorities from promoting homosexuality.
He continued, “We look back on that now as a medieval, absurd thing to try and say, and I think the way the transgender community is being demonised and othered is exactly the same. It’s become this kind of political football.”
Tennant is not the only Harry Potter actor to distance themselves from the controversial author. After Rowling released a series of social media posts in 2020 claiming that the existence of transgender people “erased” the “lived reality of women,” series stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint issued statements opposing her opinions.