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Yeah, John Lithgow and Nick Frost were really hoping for that breakout role

The child actors get a pass for now, everyone else, I've lost absolutely any respect for

I've seen at least one article where the actor states they're doing it out of love for the series even though they actually do despise JKs views.

Embiggen your horizons.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/jk-rowling-holocaust-denialism-author/

Recently watched this really good video essay about the all the other things that are wrong with the Harry Potter books (e.g. fat shaming) and how it's informed by her neoliberal ideology.

I don't know about Rowling specifically, but an unsurprising number of TERFs are real buddy buddies with far right groups, and this definitely includes people in Rowling's orbit.

Forgot the names, sorry, because this is one of the sad reality things you don't want to dwell too much on or you'll just get permanently sad. These people are miserable.

Pick a random insane take, and she probably believes it. She really is a rubbish person. I say this as someone who LOVED HP.

Okay. You still get paid, and now the whole project is getting cancelled. Win/win!

Hm, yeah. I guess I was thinking of it in a movie context, where the Director is basically the big boss and everybody on set answers to him (including the Casting Director). Still has to answer to the producers, but they're usually not hands-on, and if they disagree with what they're doing, their only leverage is the threat of firing him (but replacing a Director mid-production is a huge headache, so it's not often done).

But in a TV context, yeah, the Director is often only there for one episode, and it's the Show Runner who's usually the big boss, who controls the project as a whole, and who the Casting Director answers to. One episode's Director wouldn't be in charge of casting. Maybe they'd be able to do casting for a small role that only features in the one episode, but that's it.