Hitting back: J.K. Rowling has defended her decision to cast Korean actress Claudia Kim as Nagini in the forthcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel. Our new Harry Potter At Home project is very much a team effort, combining the resources of Harry Potter UK and US publishers Bloomsbury and Scholastic, Pottermore Publishing, Warner Bros., leading spoken-word producer and provider Audible, our numerous library suppliers, library supplier OverDrive, streaming platform Spotify, and of course, our very own magic-makers here at WizardingWorld.com. More than just unicorns dwell within. But beware! News Editor Claudia Kim as Nagini in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Deadline Broadway’s Noma Dumezweni Reads Chapter 2 In Ongoing “Harry Potter At Home” Streaming Series. Have a lovely day Kim didn’t address the negative responses during the panel. In response to the backlash, she tweeted, “The Naga are snake-like mythical creatures of Indonesian mythology, hence the name ‘Nagini.’ They are sometimes depicted as winged, sometimes as half-human, half-snake. By Saba Hamedy, HuffPost US While fans were initially shocked by the reveal, many are questioning the nature of the casting. It’s at the circus where Nagini befriends one of the central characters from the first “Fantastic Beasts” installment, Credence (Ezra Miller), who’s struggling to define himself after an adolescence spent under the purview of a magic-hating foster mom in New York, where his wizarding abilities spiraled out of control.Meanwhile, the Ministry of Magic ― plus protagonist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and American auror Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston“The path has been laid,” Grindelwald says. There are several other Harry Potter stars in the mix. Claudia Kim played a prominent role in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as the mysterious character, Nagini. Originating possibly in Indonesia, by 1927 she was a performer at the Circus Arcanus where she met Credence Barebone and had the ability then to transform at will. As the final trailer for The Crimes of Grindelwald just revealed, a big name from the Harry Potter books is a major part of the new Fantastic …
They don't make the connection between making Nagini an Asian woman who later on is the pet of a white man. “Harry Potter’ is a franchise film with many Caucasian actors, so I thought many Korean viewers would be happy.” Claudia Kim as Nagini. )There are parts that work. So I'm going to say it right now. Before now, Claudia Kim’s character had only been known as ‘the Maledictus’. Image via YouTube / Warner Bros. Pictures Despite the meager amount of dialogue for her, she dazzles as a woman struggling to contain her inner beast. Author JK Rowling said on Twitter it's a reveal But soon afterward, fans started questioning the casting of an Asian actress in the role.Many find it problematic that a woman of color is playing a cursed woman who eventually becomes a snake and slave to "Harry Potter" villain Voldemort.The Nagini casting is the latest "Fantastic Beasts" creative choice to upset fans. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.The serpent who acted as one of the Dark Lord's horcruxes was actually once a woman.Early in the trailer, Credence (Ezra Miller) calls out to Nagini at a circus and we see actress Claudia Kim transform into the familiar snake.Many were floored at the initial revelation. HOGWARTS, LOS ANGELES ― If you ask actress Claudia Kim about the evolution of her “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” character, Nagini, she’ll answer the question as if she were any other “Harry Potter” fan. Warner Bros. While she’s new to Rowling’s universe, the actress has been part of other popular franchises. That’s why it seems impossible Claudia Kim will ever become the snake Nagini. Most notably, Kim does a solid job as a fellow newcomer to the “Harry Potter” world. Kim Soo-hyun, known professionally as Claudia Kim (born 25 January, 1985 ), is a South Korean actress and model who appears in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Nagini. to help us to read through all seventeen chapters of You may notice some wonderful drawings representing the chapter during the read-through. Credit: Warner Bros Amid the criticism, Rowling took to Twitter to explain the character and only made things worse. She played Dr. Helen Cho in Marvel’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” and last year she starred alongside Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey in “When Warner Bros. announced Nagini’s involvement in “The Crimes of Grindelwald,” Rowling admitted to her Twitter followers that she had been sitting After the trailer revealed that a South Korean actress would be playing a woman destined to become the pet snake of a white male villain, a I feel like this is the problem when white people want to diversify and don't actually ask POC how to do so. (We won’t give it away.