He was starring in Samuel Beckett's Endgame at the Old Vic in London when live theater and and everything else was shut down due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. ", Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Stop Playing Politics With School Reopenings | Opinion, America's most successful employee-owned companies. The boy who played Harry Potter is ever grateful for the role that knocked down all the doors for him, but he's also been busy scrubbing any child-star residue from his acting image, starting with his raw, nudity-requiring Broadway debut in Equus in 2007. A vegan herself since 2015, Lynch started a clean, cruelty-free beauty line, Kinder Beauty Box, in 2018 and co-hosts a podcast, Chickpeeps, with fellow actors and activists. Sometimes you just want to go to B&Q.". Katie Leung, Actress: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It was as if the redhead from Essex sprang from the earth ready to play Harry's best mate, Ron Weasley. After beating out roughly 3,000 other aspirants to play Harry's Goblet of Fire-era crush, Cho Chang, the classically trained Scottish actress did theater and TV on her side of the pond, including the series White Dragon and Chimerica. Most recently the French actress made the World War II-era film Resistance with Jesse Eisenberg and Ed Harris, and it was supposed to open in theaters in March 2020—but is now available on VOD instead due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I lost touch with a lot of my friends from school. “ The Nest follows wealthy couple Dan and Emily who are desperate to have a baby, and when they meet 18-year-old Kaya in a chance encounter, it looks like the final piece of their perfect family puzzle is in reach. Never assume that because someone thinks differently, they have no knowledge. I had this feeling that I had missed out on normal things. "… It's made my admiration for women even stronger.". The author continued tweeting, "I've spent much of the last three years reading books, blogs and scientific papers by trans people, medics and gender specialists. Over the weekend, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling faced backlash and accusations of transphobia after she made a series of comments on Twitter. He's been working in film and TV ever since, most notably playing Damien George on Nashville, Sebastian in the Golden Globe-winning Amazon Prime series Mozart in the Jungle and now Benjamin on High Fidelity, the new Hulu reboot of the book-turned-movie starring Zoë Kravitz as the lovelorn, list-making record store owner, now set in Brooklyn. ", Related slideshow: Harry Potter Kid Stars Then and Now. Enoch is also a graduate of The Queen's College, Oxford. A teenage girl in Glasgow agrees to carry a baby for couple Dan and Emily. And I didn't talk to them much on the films because when you're 14 and whatever, they're 18 or 19, it seems like such a giant age gap. The statuesque Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons Academy in France, chosen to represent her school in the Triwizard Tournament, eventually marries Ron's groovy big brother Bill. It wasn't long before people began taking issue with her tweet, pointing out that transgender men and non-binary people also menstruate while some assigned female at birth do not menstruate due to medical reasons. It isn't hate to speak the truth. I think there's always been something in me, particularly when I finished Potter, that wants to prove myself, but I'm also naturally quite an insecure person anyway.". Most recently Felton starred on the YouTube Premium sci-fi drama Origin and the films Ophelia and Braking for Whales. ", Amid a mix of criticism toward Rowling and debate in the comments, Jameela Jamil tweeted the same link as Leung to the fund for black transgender women in Atlanta to Rowling, writing, "Hey JK as you claim to support trans rights and this is a historical moment where we are globally discussing the impact of white supremacy on Black People, please share some of your $650million mega wealth with this charity. Grint—whose first big post-Potter honor was being part of the Olympic Torch relay before the London Olympics in 2012, an "amazing" experience he said he'd cherish forever— has acted primarily in British productions, most notably The ABC Murders on BBC One, based on the Agatha Christie mystery, and the Sky One dark comedy Sick Note, playing an average Joe whose life perks up after he's given a false-alarm cancer diagnosis but decides to let everyone continue to believe he's still sick. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. Like most of the Harry Potter bullies, even Dudley Dursley was a perfectly nice bloke in real life. Wumben? Chris Columbus was looking for a 15-to-17-year-old to play the specter of 16-year-old Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but the 23-year-old Coulson won the part anyway. Katie Liu Leung (born 8 August 1987) is a Scottish actress. The nefarious Draco Malfoy (two consecutive MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain) was really a platinum-haired doll with a heart of gold in real life. Though fairly unrecognizable from those days, Melling has worked consistently on stage and screen ever since, including roles in The Lost City of Z, the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and the HBO series His Dark Materials. Without a doubt, the erstwhile child actor who played the awkward Neville Longbottom has made the biggest splash in the then-and-now department, as news of Lewis' grown-up hotness has since traversed the globe. He also said, "After Potter I didn't really know what I wanted to do. Also a singer-songwriter, he has released several EPs over the years as well, and his Instagram, where he makes soup, plays guitar, hangs out with his dog and has the occasional Potter reunion, is one of the most joyful places on the Internet. She concluded the thread with, "#AsiansForBlackLives. In December Wright joined Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis and Evanna Lynch for a reunion that, happily, someone thought to take a picture of. Woomud?". Harry Potter's Katie Leung Seems to Respond After J.K. Rowling Is Accused of Transphobia. "I think a lot of us have bonded more since the films," Lynch said. Poésy also has a son, Liam, who was born in 2017.

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