Harry Potter actor Ralph Fiennes has defended JK Rowling over ‘the disgusting’ abuse she has received for her views on transgender issues and same-sex spaces.
The 59-year-old actor, who plays Lord Voldemort in the series of films based on the author’s books, said he understands where Ms Rowling ‘is coming from’.
Taking a different stance to that of younger members of the Harry Potter cast, Fiennes added that Ms Rowling choosing to express her opinions as a woman did not make her an ‘uber right-wing fascist’, The Telegraph reports.
Speaking to the New York Times, he said: ‘The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it’s appalling. I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women.
‘But it’s not some obscene, uber Right-wing fascist. It’s just a woman saying: “I’m a woman and I feel I’m a woman and I want to be able to say that I’m a woman.”
‘And I understand where she’s coming from. Even though I’m not a woman.’
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