Since then, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, the trio of child actors who played Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger in the film series, have all publicly shunned Rowling over her apparent anti-transgender views. The author has said she would not forgive them for criticizing her, telling them to “save their apologies .”

In 1938, Orson Welles hosted a radio version of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” that reportedly sent listeners into a panic by treating the alien invasion as a breaking news broadcast. Skip forward to today, and a witless, straight-to-streaming adaptation of Wells’ novel seems highly unlikely to alarm anybody, confining the global takeover by …

Monsoon, meanwhile, is currently transitioning between two massive theater projects. After playing the role of Ruth in the Tony-nominated Pirates! A Penzance Musical, Monsoon is gearing up to star as Mary Todd Lincoln in the Tony-winning play Oh, Mary! Monsoon takes over the role from Tituss Burgess starting on Monday (Aug. 4).