Shaun of the Dead actor Nick Frost has disabled comments on a post celebrating his casting in HBO’s Harry Potter series, after fans reacted with upset over his involvement.
HBO announced yesterday (14 April) that the 53-year-old British actor, known for Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, will star as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in its TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
While mega fans of Rowling’s wizarding world have praised HBO’s casting team for lining up Frost as Hagrid, others have taken aim at Frost and his fellow future Harry Potter stars over their involvement in a series being executively produced by Rowling.
JK Rowling has repeatedly made her ‘gender-critical’ views on the transgender community clear, while she was recently criticised by asexual campaigners for branding International Asexuality Day “fake oppression” day.
Comments have now been disabled on his celebration post after fans pointed out that he would be working on a Rowling project.
Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
Alan Rickman was way to old though. He was supposed to be young. He isn’t “young” but I think Paul Dano could have played a decent fit. (Parents should have been what 19? And snape around 30 when the movies/books started ?)
Perhaps it wasn’t true the books then, but movie Snape was a believable age to have been at school at the same time as Harry’s parents. It’s just for whatever reason the author made the parents ridiculously young
The parents died at 21 apparently. So they graduated school at 17/18, entered the work force, entered a war and had a kid by 21. That’s not ridiculously young. Most of the reasons many people don’t have kids at 21 these days are tied to things they can obtain easily. Food scarcity, housing, and job hunting don’t seem like much of an issue. The mother can transfigure a flower into a “fish” and the father was also gifted in magic. They could build a house over the weekend with their family money.
Snape being the same age should have put him at 32 when the first book started. Rickman was about 20 years older than that.