cheerful Instagram account, there are endless comments from people telling him the same thing — that to act in something connected to Rowling is analogous to donning a Ku Klux Klan hood.
Lithgow is, commendably, unmoved.
Meanwhile, Lithgow is still puzzling on something. “No one complained when I agreed to play Dahl, but I’ve received so many messages about JK Rowling. Isn’t that odd?”
Well, at the risk of sounding glib: antisemitism is no big deal nowadays in the right progressive circles, though "anti-Zionism" sounds better. Being anti-trans, though? It doesn't get any worse than that.
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