Shaun of the Dead actor Nick Frost has disabled comments on a post celebrating his casting in HBO’s Harry Potter series, after fans reacted with upset over his involvement.
HBO announced yesterday (14 April) that the 53-year-old British actor, known for Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, will star as half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in its TV adaptation of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels.
While mega fans of Rowling’s wizarding world have praised HBO’s casting team for lining up Frost as Hagrid, others have taken aim at Frost and his fellow future Harry Potter stars over their involvement in a series being executively produced by Rowling.
JK Rowling has repeatedly made her ‘gender-critical’ views on the transgender community clear, while she was recently criticised by asexual campaigners for branding International Asexuality Day “fake oppression” day.
Comments have now been disabled on his celebration post after fans pointed out that he would be working on a Rowling project.
Still, those disappointed in the star’s decision to be involved in Rowling’s work have begun flooding the comment sections on his other posts, with one reading: “You always were an artist I highly admired. Please think again if you want to get involved with that woman, you might lose a lot of fans with that decision.”
He’s an actor, it’s a paying acting job. Are these supposed “fans” he might lose going to replace that pay check? No? Then shut the fuck up.
Yes, an actor with his castings has absolutely no options 🙄 this is the only one he got a call-back for, obviously
Dude is overweight and 52. What’s he holding out for? Anything close to this pay, in an industry that doesn’t really seem to care about JKR’s repugnant opinions?
That’s his business. If a stranger bitched at me because I took a job and they had some fucking problem with it, I’d tell them to cram it up their ass, and mind their own fucking business.
It’s not because he took a job, it’s because he’s throwing the weight of his celebrity behind a woman who encourages violence against some of the most marginalized people in our society.
People are questioning his ethics, not his career choices.
I’m not sure you should run your own social media if you become a famous celebrity.
I have no desire to be a famous celebrity, so I’m thankful that I’ll never be one. But, you’re right, if I were a celebrity I would have to demonstrate more tact. Luckily for Frost, he needn’t tell these obnoxious assholes to fuck off, because they’re not relevant enough to warrant such attention. Disabling comments on a few social media posts is sufficient.
You got it backwards. It’s the fans who decide if Nick Frost is relevant enough to warrant their attention. Like every actor, his entire career hinges upon that premise. Let’s see how shitting on his fans works out for him.
You’re so tough, I’m so envious of you 🥺
Grow up.
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If your job was morally repugnant, then they would be right to have a problem with it.
And who decides what is or is not “morally repugnant?” You? Are you the arbiter of objectively, universal moral truth? You must be, if you think anyone needs to seek your approval before taking a paying job.
Bruh, don’t just be pedantic, you can imagine direct things that would be objectively immoral to work as, like a slaver. And if you can’t than you’re just avoiding any kind of introspection at all.
it’s amazing how conservatives adopted moral relativism the second it benefited them personally
I’m not Conservative.
Obviously, you are the only one who can make that decision for you.
Not going to stop me from judging you for doing something that I consider morally repugnant, whether you do or not.