When Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie was filming in Vancouver, the crew wasn’t prepared for the reaction. “We had to start blocking off the set and pushing Laila to get in cars and go down alleys — it was crazy,” says director Ryan Crego of the Gabby’s Dollhouse fandom buzzing around their star, Laila Lockhart Kraner, and the filming of DreamWorks Animation‘s big-screen adaptation of the hit Netflix preschool series. “One afternoon it was two little kids; then it was all of theese kids with ears and the parents and everyone standing across the street and I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’”

The author has rebuffed conciliatory remarks made by the Harry Potter actor, saying Watson has ‘enthusiastically participated’ in the ‘trashing of women’s rights’ Harry Potter author JK Rowling has responded to Emma Watson’s recent remarks about their rift over transgender rights, saying the actor is “ignorant of how ignorant she is”. Rowling’s post comes after a podcast interview with Watson, in which the latter said: “I really don’t believe that … holding the love and support and views that I have, mean[s] that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with.” Continue reading...