{"id":36666,"date":"2025-09-25T07:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/36666\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:27:07","slug":"emma-watson-still-values-j-k-rowling-harry-potter-despite-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/36666\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson Still Values J.K. Rowling, ‘Harry Potter’ Despite Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSix years have passed since Emma Watson<\/a> last appeared in a film, and nearly 15 years have passed since the Harry Potter<\/a> film franchise concluded. In that time, the actress has ruminated on her relationship with it from the perspective gained with distance. During a recent appearance on On Purpose With Jay Shetty, <\/a>the actress explained how she\u2019s made space to still value Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling<\/a> despite having been publicly denounced, alongside Daniel Radcliffe, by the author for standing against <\/a>her anti-trans stance. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI really don\u2019t believe that by having had that experience, and holding the love and support and views that I have, means that I can\u2019t and don\u2019t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with,\u201d Watson said. \u201cI will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don\u2019t get to keep and cherish. I just don\u2019t think these things are either\/or.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added: \u201cIt\u2019s my deepest wish that I hope people who don\u2019t agree with my opinion will love me and I hope I can keep loving people who I don\u2019t necessarily share the same opinion with. And I think that\u2019s a very, very important way for me that I need to be able to move through life. \u2026 I guess where I\u2019ve landed is it\u2019s not so much what we say or what we believe, but very often how we say it. That\u2019s really important and that\u2019s really frustrating and not what you want to hear when you\u2019re really angry and upset with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatson explained that she doesn\u2019t want to perpetuate the idea \u201cof throwing out people or that people are disposable,\u201d and she keeps the door open to reconnect with Rowling primarily because \u201ca conversation was never made possible.\u201d Until then, she\u2019s being careful about how she discusses the matter publicly. \u201cI just don\u2019t want to say anything that continues to weaponize a really like toxic debate and conversation,\u201d she added. \u201cIt is why I don\u2019t comment or continue to comment. Not because I don\u2019t care about her or about the issue, but because the way that the conversation is being had feels really painful to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tRadcliffe\u2019s response to Rowling<\/a> saying she would never forgive him and Watson was similar. \u201cIt makes me really sad, ultimately,\u201d Radcliffe said last year. \u201cI do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cI\u2019d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don\u2019t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something. I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by the comments. And to say that if those are Jo\u2019s views, then they are not the views of everybody associated with the Potter franchise \u2026 I will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWatson learned to take the good with the bad after Harry Potter, too. When she ventured into other roles, she was surprised to see that it wasn\u2019t as community-based as the beloved franchise she\u2019d spent a decade of her life making. <\/p>\n

\n\t I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that we were, the people I worked with were going to be my family, and that we were going to be lifelong friends,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was a very painful experience for me outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood, like, bone breaking, really painful, because most people don\u2019t come to those environments looking for friendships \u2026 I found, the rejection really painful. I think it was so unusual to make a set of films for 12 years and we were a community. I took that as an expectation into my other workplaces and I just got my ass kicked. I really did. It broke me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six years have passed since Emma Watson last appeared in a film, and nearly 15 years have passed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,11782,146,5032,85,46,11706],"class_list":{"0":"post-36666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-emma-watson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harry-potter","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-j-k-rowling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}