Controversy has arisen following the release of a trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, in which Korean actress Claudia Kim was cast as the human counterpart to Voldemort’s notorious pet snake, with critics calling foul on the decision to cast an Asian woman as the villain’s slave. (Rowlingthat Nagini was always meant to be based off “the Naga," which are "snake-like mythical creatures of Indonesian mythology.”)