Loki director Kate Herron reveals she turned down HBO’s Harry Potter twice

Director Kate Herron has revealed she turned down opportunities to work on HBO Max’s Harry Potter reboot, not once but twice. Herron shared the news in the comments of an Instagram post by fellow director Ally Pankiw, who last week revealed she had told her team “absolutely f****** not” when approached about the show.

Television directors Kate Herron and Ally Pankiw both admit that the McCarthyite political blacklist of the 1950s is alive and well in Hollywood, and that they are both the latest supporters of this era that decent people look back on with disgrace.

"Black Mirror" director Ally Pankiw and "Loki" director Kate Herron publicly refused HBO's "Harry Potter" series over J.K. Rowling's transgender views.

Canadian director Ally Pankiw revealed Thursday in an Instagram post that she turned down work on an upcoming Harry Potter television series, saying, “It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia!”

Directors Ally Pankiw and Kate Herron posted on social media that they turned down the series over J.K. Rowling's trans views: "Say 'no' to funding transphobia."

Not everyone wants to climb aboard the Hogwarts Express, it transpires. Top TV director Ally Pankiw has posted on Instagram a screenshot from a text exchange with a rep in which she scoffed at the notion that she would consider enrolling with HBO’s forthcoming series adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels.

Ally Pankiw certainly won’t be working on HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. The Black Mirror director shared an Instagram post that appears to show an SMS exchange with her agent in which she emphatically turns down an opportunity to board the series. “I have an instinct on the answer but I feel compelled to ask,”…