Maintain your new Harry Potter: Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan slams JK Rowling for celebrating UK ruling towards trans ladies | Hollywood

What Nicola stated

JK Rowling celebrated the UK court docket ruling a with cigar and a drink.“It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish ladies with a military behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Courtroom and, in successful, they’ve protected the rights of girls and ladies throughout the UK. @ForWomenScot, I’m so proud to know you,” she wrote on X.

On Friday, Nicola took to her Instagram Tales to slam JK Rowling, and wrote within the caption, “Maintain your new Harry Potter lads. Wouldn’t contact it with a ten foot pole.”

Nicola additionally posted a video on her Instagram account to state her response to the Supreme Courtroom ruling, by which she stated, “I’m utterly horrified by the Supreme Courtroom’s ruling. To see an already marginalised neighborhood being additional attacked, and attacked in regulation, is stomach-churning and disgusting, and to see individuals have fun it’s extra stomach-churning and disgusting. Now’s the time to talk up and make your voice heard. Let your trans, non-binary mates and the neighborhood at massive know that you just’re there for them and can maintain combating for them.”

In regards to the new Harry Potter present

Nicola was referring to the brand new Harry Potter collection, primarily based on the JK Rowling novels of the identical title. The most recent replace on the casting of the present revealed that actor John Lithgow (final seen in Conclave) might be entering into the position of Dumbledore.

The upcoming Max collection might be helmed by writer-showrunner Francesca Gardiner, and also will star Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.