{"id":167613,"date":"2025-09-25T07:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167613\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:32:30","slug":"harry-potter-reboot-faces-backlash-over-rumoured-female-voldemort-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167613\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter reboot faces backlash over rumoured female Voldemort casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Harry Potter TV reboot has stirred up fresh controversy after reports surfaced that Lord Voldemort could be reimagined in an unexpected way. According to Comicbook, the casting process for the franchise\u2019s most feared villain is open to actors \u201cof any gender\u201d, raising the possibility of a female Dark Lord.<\/p>\n<p>The news has not gone down well with many long-time fans. Social media was quick to react, with one frustrated user writing, \u201cPut the whole thing in trash.\u201d Others argued that changing Voldemort\u2019s gender would undermine the character\u2019s origins as Tom Marvolo Riddle, calling the move more of a \u201cdiversity checklist\u201d than a creative decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming Harry Potter TV reboot has stirred up fresh controversy after reports surfaced that Lord Voldemort could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,16984,109964,109963,109962,344],"class_list":["post-167613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-potter","tag-harry-potter-series-cast","tag-harry-potter-tv-series","tag-lord-voldemort","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}