Robbie Coltrene, who played Hagrid in a series of films about Harry Potter, spoke in support of Joan Rowling after she was accused of transfobia. A 70-year-old actor made a radio and said that Joan's position is not offensive at all, just people are "too easily offended."
The scandal around Rowling began in the summer when she expressed her position about transgender women, and recently aggravated when The Telegraph review was released on her last Blood Blood Book (Troubled Blood). The review said that the book appears the serial killer-transvestite. The author of the article noted:
I wonder what they will do with the book criticism of the Rowling position, because the moral book seems to be: never trust a man in a dress.
Koltrein believes that Joan has the right to his opinion and that it is not offensive.
I do not think she says some offensive things. I do not know why, but the current generation is directly looking for what to be offended. I say how a grumpy old man, but I just think it's time to grow up and stop suffering
- Actor spoke. At the same time, he noted that he did not want to get involved in the discussion and then get angry letters:
I do not want to be involved in this topic, because all these letters of hatred and other nonsense - it is not necessary for me in my age.