{"id":43369,"date":"2025-09-25T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43369\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:00:07","slug":"emma-watson-says-she-remains-grateful-to-harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-despite-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/43369\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson says she remains grateful to Harry Potter author JK Rowling despite rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">She went on to voice her regret the two had never spoken about the falling out, telling Shetty, \u201cthe thing I\u2019m most upset about is that a conversation was never made possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">But Rowling seemed to reject the possibility of a reconciliation in a veiled tweet on September 26.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A little reminder for anyone who may be regretting their very public sprint to the front of the mob and is now trying to discreetly shove their pitchfork out of sight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pt6SOguDUI\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/pt6SOguDUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jk_rowling\/status\/1971191971709587676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">She has been at the centre of controversy for several years after she began to publicly engage in \u201cfeminist\u201d gender critical discourse, which many trans activists have deemed trans erasure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Rowling was first accused of transphobia in December 2019, when she expressed her support for Maya Forstater, who lost her job for tweeting \u201cmen cannot change into women\u201d, the Guardian reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The following year, the author wrote an essay detailing five reasons she was \u201cworried about the new trans activism\u201d, criticising the erasure of \u201cthe concept of sex\u201d and trans people\u2019s presence in single sex spaces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Labelled a TERF \u2013 a trans-exclusionary radical feminist \u2013 the backlash from LGBTQ advocates was swift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, the hit film series\u2019 main actors, all denounced Rowling\u2019s comments and reiterated their support for transgender rights.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren\u2019t who they say they are.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmaWatson\/status\/1270826851070619649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">The trio were close with Rowling through the years they starred in the franchise but distanced themselves from the 60-year-old after the controversy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Rowling has continued to espouse critical views on gender-affirming policies, and as recently as March this year appeared to make a dig at the former Harry Potter actors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Responding to an X post about actors who \u201cinstantly\u201d ruin films, Rowling replied: \u201cThree guesses. Sorry, but that was irresistible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Elsewhere in the interview, Watson discussed how working on the film series shaped her expectations of on-set dynamics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI came to work looking for friendship, and that was a very painful experience for me\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOutside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood, like bone breaking, really painful, um, because most people don\u2019t come to those environments looking for friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MtQqFgbmCbNYi\" style=\"display:none\">Her last film role was in Greta Gerwig\u2019s 2019 adaptation of Little Women.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She went on to voice her regret the two had never spoken about the falling out, telling Shetty,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13851,5432,127,790,156,31190,38626,9859,18558,38628,111,139,69,6379,38631,1523,13792,38627,10715,38630,38629,312,20863,165,61,21539,15358],"class_list":["post-43369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-author","tag-between","tag-despite","tag-emma","tag-entertainment","tag-gender","tag-grateful","tag-harry","tag-identity","tag-jk","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ongoing","tag-opposing","tag-over","tag-pair","tag-potter","tag-remains","tag-rift","tag-rowling","tag-says","tag-she","tag-their","tag-to","tag-views","tag-watson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}