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“A bunch of racists”, is what exactly JK Rowling remarked when she received huge criticism over casting a black woman as Hermione, reported The Observer.
She said that dealing with the continuous insistence of the people who said that Hermione should be a white woman.
Olivier winner Noma Dumezweni “was the best actress for the job,” she went on.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child begins previewing at London’s Palace Theatre on Tuesday.
The two-part production, written by Jack Thorne, is eagerly anticipated and expected to be one of the year’s biggest stage successes.
Rowling said her “experience of social media” had led to her to expect “idiots were going to idiot” [sic] about Dumezweni’s casting.
“But what can you say? That’s the way the world is,” she continued, adding she had “decided not to get too agitated” about the reaction online.