“I wonder how J.K. Rowling has absorbed it,” pondered the 79-year-old star.
“I suppose at a certain point Ill meet her.”
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“That was the canary in the coal mine,” Lithgow said.

John Lithgow in April and J.K. Rowling in 2022.Credit:Neil Mockford/WireImage; Mike Marsland/WireImage
I thought, ‘Why is this a factor at all?’
I wonder how J.K. Rowling has absorbed it.
As for whether the criticism has soured the role for him, Lithgow replied, Oh, heavens no.

John Lithgow in February.Frazer Harrison/WireImage



John Lithgow in March; Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore for ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ (2007).Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Murray Close/Warner Bros