This April 13, 2022, fans of the Harry Potter universe will be able to discover the third part of Fantastic Beasts in dark rooms. After Johnny Depp, it’s the turn of Mads Mikkelsen to take on the role of Grindelwald. The actor returned to the controversy around JK Rowling’s so-called transphobic remarks.
Fantastic Beasts 3: What to expect next?
Highly anticipated by fans, Fantastic Beasts 3 will enter theaters on April 13, 2022. Within Dumbledore’s Secrets, Professor Albus Dumbledore knows that the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald seeks to take over the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts magizoologist Newt Scamander with leading a fearless team of wizards and witches. In the role of the powerful black magician, Johnny Depp was replaced by Warner by actor Mads Mikkelsen after the media exposure of his legal war with his ex-wife Amber Heard. The opportunity for his new interpreter to return to the controversy around JK Rowling’s deemed transphobic remarksthe author of the Harry Potter books, with QG.
controversy around the words of JK Rowling: mads mikkelsen decides not to take a position
If many players in the franchise have taken a stand over the months, sometimes to defend it, sometimes to acclaim it, Mads Mikkelsen prefers to temper. As he explains to QGhe does not feel not legitimate to denounce JK Rowling for his various statements : “Whenever you ask someone, you can’t quite understand what they said. But if the reaction is so crazy, we have to be very careful to know what we’re talking about.” “I have a habit of not commenting on things that I know nothing about, and I actually think that would be fine for the whole world”then suggests Mads Mikkelsen.
Finally a solution found to end the controversy?
While our colleagues from QG asked Mads Mikkelsen what was the right solution, in his opinion, to put an end to this controversy, he simply replied that he “didn’t have the answer”. He still thinks that the first thing to do would be to ending violence against women and transgender people. Regarding JK Rowling, he feels that it would be smart and necessary to have a conversion of adults with her.