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Should have accepted it, and then used only trans people for the entire cast. Not a single cisgender person on screen for the entire runtime.
Directors of a tv show usually don’t cast roles. That’s what the casting director and producers do. They were probably asked to direct a single episode.
Hm, yeah. I guess I was thinking of it in a movie context, where the Director is basically the big boss and everybody on set answers to him (including the Casting Director). Still has to answer to the producers, but they're usually not hands-on, and if they disagree with what they're doing, their only leverage is the threat of firing him (but replacing a Director mid-production is a huge headache, so it's not often done).
But in a TV context, yeah, the Director is often only there for one episode, and it's the Show Runner who's usually the big boss, who controls the project as a whole, and who the Casting Director answers to. One episode's Director wouldn't be in charge of casting. Maybe they'd be able to do casting for a small role that only features in the one episode, but that's it.
Except JK Rowling is an executive producer on the show and would probably use her vast resources to destroy their lives and force HBO to reshoot with a new cast.
jk rowling would probably raise hell and prevent the show/movie from being aired.
Okay. You still get paid, and now the terf's whole project is getting cancelled. Win/win!
But don't tell anyone until it's released and is a huge success. Being sure to highlight all of JK's comments complimenting the cast.