United Kingdom, March 25 -- The Harry Potter revival has "a serious security team" amid death threats aimed at some actors.

The upcoming HBO adaptation of JK Rowling's wizarding series has sparked a lot of debate around the author's outspoken views which many have deemed transphobic, while new Severus Snape actor Paapa Essiedu opening up about the toxic and racist reactions to him joining the project.

HBO and HBO Max chief Casey Bloys told Variety: "With all actors on any kind of big IP shows - and this is obviously one of those where you've got, you know, passionate fans, people with a lot of opinions - it can get scary in places.

"So for any show like that, we anticipated it and tried to have training, you know, best practices in ter...