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I'm not sure it's a "calculated insult" but it did read a but oddly (I assumed initially that it was referring to someone else). I presume the writer or their editor went with that angle because because his having appeared in the Harry Potter movies is relevant to an article and fitted the wider context of JK Rowling falling out with HP cast members. I'm not convinced it was the right approach.
Tennant, who once lowered himself to appear in a Harry Potter film, stated....
Better?
Yeah. My choice of words was a bit unnecessarily inflammatory. I struggled to find the words for how weird a choice of introduction it is, but don't mean to actually assign malice.
I don't really think the article author meant anything by it necessarily.
Your point about the context of the cast relationships makes sense. Probably why they went for it.