Helena Bonham Carter is defending two of probably the most polarising celebrities in her life, J.Ok. Rowling and Johnny Depp.
She tackled remarks from the Harry Potter scribe considered by many as transphobic, alongside together with her Sweeney Todd co-star’s defamation trial towards ex-wife Amber Heard.
“I think she has been hounded,” Bonham Carter mentioned of Rowling in a current interview with the Times of London.
Bonham Carter voiced her assist for Rowling being “allowed her opinion, particularly if she’s suffered abuse”.
The actress, who performed Bellatrix Lestrange within the Potter movies, mentioned that the “horrendous” criticism of Rowling has “been taken to the extreme”, based on CNN.
Though she denies allegations of transphobia, Rowling, 57, has confronted backlash for a lot of a tweet regarding transgender people, together with one through which she slammed an outlet for referring to “people who menstruate” as an alternative of ladies.
Bonham Carter, 56, additionally implied that Heard, 36, might have been utilizing the #MeToo motion for clout when she wrote in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed that she was “a public figure representing domestic abuse”.
“People will jump on the bandwagon because it’s the trend and to be the poster girl for it,” she mentioned.
Earlier this yr, Depp received his defamation go well with towards Heard, with a jury awarding him US$10.35mil in damages. Heard, who had countersued for $100 million, was awarded US$2mil in damages.
Bonham Carter slammed the “quite hysterical” nature of cancel tradition, calling it attribute of “a kind of witch hunt and a lack of understanding”.
“You can’t ban people,” she mentioned. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
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