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To be fair, they're probably not already established, and they're starving for work.
Yeah, John Lithgow and Nick Frost were really hoping for that breakout role
The child actors get a pass for now, everyone else, I've lost absolutely any respect for
Sigh.. I liked Lithgow. He really shouldn't need this with what he's already got. Yet here we are :(
And, he’s a terrible choice for that character, anyway. Not that I’d ever watch it.
I would've thought that about him playing a serial killer too.
I've seen at least one article where the actor states they're doing it out of love for the series even though they actually do despise JKs views.
Idk. Maybe find a different series to fall in love with.
Fucking spineless ass take
Let's be real, if it came down to accepting 100s of thousands of dollars or sticking to your morals, everyone one in here would take the cash.
Accepting a couple hundred thousand dollars, sure, maybe. Let me know if someone's offering.
But actually work in the fascist propaganda machine for a couple years? I honestly think I couldn't. I would get burnout. I would go to online communities I enjoy and see people rightfully despise me and then have to go out of bed to kill trans people by proxy. I would probably off myself.
Maybe for millions I could drown myself in sycophants and drugs and sex and amazing experiences long enough to get the work done. And then the tabloids would eat me alive and I would have to struggle to dig my way out of that.
For it to be a good selfish decision I would need tens of millions. And then maybe I'll make my own propaganda machine, with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the blackjack and hookers, I would pay the British trans community to ratio Rowling on a professional basis.
Is that still selfish? Sure, I would take a couple million for myself. The British queer community would be my emotional support political radicals. It might end up doing more harm than good as people say the HP fandom is good again because I'm there and because the British queer community would be financially captured by my interests rather than anything grassroots or democratic.