Actor John Lithgow has said that he thinks JK Rowling’s views on trans people have been “twisted and misrepresented”. Lithgow, who is playing Albus Dumbledore in HBO’s upcoming ‘Harry Potter series’, made the comments during an interview with The New Yorker on 27 March. “The whole subject of Rowling’s imputed prejudice, it came up after everything was already underway. I’d already said yes [...] I was urged to walk away, and I was not about to do that,” Lithgow said. “The reasons to do it were much, much stronger than the reasons to protest against what Rowling has done and said. I do disagree with much of it, much of it I think has been twisted and misrepresented, and she has doubled down on it at her own cost.” Lithgow did not specify which of Rowling’s actions he disagreed with. However, he did go on to tell the New Yorker that at least one of the “reasons to do it” was job security. “[T]here was everything attractive about the job, and job security into my late years. You don’...