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MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Tennant called transgender critics “a tiny bunch of little whinging f*ckers who are on the wrong side of history, and they’ll all go away soon.”

Is the real headline here. And good for him.

I’d rather not give what’s her name any more attention over this crap.

Also, calling Tennant a “Harry Potter actor”, while true, feels like a calculated insult to a man who has played Doctor Who, The Purple Man, and Crawley.

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
He was also barely even in Harry Potter, if we are going by screen time pretty sure Harry potter is the least relevant part of his career.

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- AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wasn’t even aware that he was in there.
  
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  - Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    He was in Goblet of Fire. Showed up briefly at the beginning and end of the movie, certainly easy to miss. More of a cameo appearance for David Tennant fans.
    
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    Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s the first time I learned who he was and I was so impressed with his performance, however short, that when I caught a Doctor Who episode and recognized him, I kept watching and became an instant fan.
    
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Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Also, calling Tennant a “Harry Potter actor”, while true, feels like a calculated insult to a man who has played Doctor Who, The Purple Man, and Crawley.

I’m not sure it’s a “calculated insult” but it did read a but oddly (I assumed initially that it was referring to someone else). I presume the writer or their editor went with that angle because because his having appeared in the Harry Potter movies is relevant to an article and fitted the wider context of JK Rowling falling out with HP cast members. I’m not convinced it was the right approach.

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- III@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Tennant, who once lowered himself to appear in a Harry Potter film, stated…
  
  Better?
  
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- MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  I’m not sure it’s a “calculated insult” but it did read a but oddly (I assumed initially that it was referring to someone else).
  
  Yeah. My choice of words was a bit unnecessarily inflammatory. I struggled to find the words for how weird a choice of introduction it is, but don’t mean to actually assign malice.
  
  I don’t really think the article author meant anything by it necessarily.
  
  Your point about the context of the cat relationships makes sense. Probably why they went for it.
  
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