Casey appeared on The Town podcast on Thursday and spilt the beans on whether JK Rowling and her controversial comments on transgender issues are impacting the show’s production. The authors had not gone down well with the OG stars of the franchise, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, and Daniel Radcliffe.

A source close to JK Rowling says the author won't be bothered that the actor playing Severus Snape in the new Harry Potter series has signed a letter demanding industry action on trans rights

Several Harry Potter stars including Eddie Redmayne appear to have taken a swipe at JK Rowling by signing an open letter expressing “solidarity” with transgender people.It comes after the children’s author backed a controversial Supreme Court ruling earlier this month which declared that trans females are not women.