JK Rowling telling it like it is

Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson are poor actors and not exactly getting plum roles. This is their way of staying relevant. Now Daniel is a father I’d like to see how he would feel if his child wanted to cut off her breasts or his genitals. Woke nonsense. Any children could have played the role, they were so bad in the first couple of films and clearly had acting lessons along the way to improve (slightly) as the films went on. JKR made them millionaires and they wouldn’t be where they are now if it wasn’t for her, they should keep their mouths zipped.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/harry-potter-tom-felton-supports-jk-rowling-084543708.html

https://deadline.com/2022/01/harry-potter-star-jason-isaacs-wavers-on-j-k-rowling-controversy-i-was-not-going-to-be-jumping-to-stab-her-1234918278/amp/

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/helena-bonham-carter-defends-johnny-depp-jk-rowling-1234637446/

NGL, I kinda love Slytherin House turned out in support of JK - maybe playing the baddies made them less afraid of being accused of being baddies in real life?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/25/ralph-fiennes-defends-jk-rowling

A million pounds is more money than most of us will get our hands on in one go (or ever). I'm playing the world's tiniest violin at the thought of the poor love but being able to get by on it! Not that he had to because he made a shit ton from the subsequent^^ riding of JkR's coat tails films!

I think they are getting desperate. So many silly diversions.

Luckily for Daniel, there were seven more after that.

£1 million isn’t that much when you are young and you stand the chance of never working again.

Not for the money, but for the possibility of making more films, getting more parts. I think this is why the nasty little turncoats said what they said.

But when you've been promoting medical malpractice and the erosion of women's rights for social media likes, you should feel sorry.

As said upthread,this is the reason they should be shunned.

So cowards who will say, do or believe whatever brings in the most money? They all earned enough from HP to never need to work again. Daniel Radcliffe earned £1million for the first movie alone.

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=www.imdb.com/news/ni63900937/&ved=2ahUKEwi967K7hr2FAxUX-AIHHccfBd4QFnoECD0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0WQCUAb59PvFZUvYHdl62l

I think the difference is that JK is too big to be cancelled. It doesn’t matter if every single person stopped reading or watching HP tomorrow, she’s still got plenty of money. Even if she didn’t earn another penny in her life, she would be fine (well I assume anyway).
For the actors it is different. I don’t know how they were paid for the HP roles but even if they get royalties the films are going to look very old fashioned in a few years and doubtless be remade for a new generation or even as a tv series. I feel that they felt that they couldn’t burn their bridges. They saw the backlash JK was getting and knew their careers just wouldn’t take it.

Sorry x post. With several of you

The HP three ... it was also the timing of their "I stand with you" bollocks , right in the middle of the furore over JKRs open letter whilst saying absolutely nothing, not a jot to condemn the horrendous abuse she was getting.

I wonder if they were being a bit “do it to Julia”. If the HP brand became truly tarnished, these young actors - who were very much wedded to the brand, having starred in multiple HP films - could struggle to find new work. A rather cynical take, I know! But a possibility.

She wrote to JKR while suffering with anorexia and the two became penpals. That’s a pretty good measure of JK’s kindness and compassion.

Robbie Coltrane also defended JK, and after his death there were some awful crowing posts on X from the BeKind posse.

Evanna Lynch is also a goodun: “I just felt that her character has always been to advocate for the most vulnerable members of society. The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable. I do wish people would just give her more grace and listen to her."
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/evanna-lynch-jk-rowling-harry-potter-b2293424.html

I would imagine their agent would tell them to shut the fuck up, if they could. Why would they encourage them to talk like that?

What they look like is besides the point surely?

It’s not been deleted - still there

https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1778124467027267804

"I also never understand why Rupert isn't mentioned as he made very similar comments to Dan and Emma."

IIRC Daniel and Emma jumped in pretty quickly after JKR started coming under attack. I think it was at least a year before Rupert make any comment, and it was within a long interview/article about something he was appearing in (Servant?). Reading it, I imagined the interviewer had pressed him somewhat to say anything at all. Daniel and Emma, on the other hand, made their comments spontaneously.

I can’t wait for the long series version of HP - a whole new set of kids playing the roles will be just the underlining this debacle needs.

they weren't ever established actors

To be fair, they were 9/10-year-olds at the time. For a child of that age, Dan had already had quite a bit of success.

But I think early fame can kind of freeze people in the childlike mentality of the age they became famous.

This is what stands out for me. Of course they are entitled to a different opinion, it's that they let her be hung out to dry.

A few people have commented that no one owes their previous employer anything, can't not speak out against them etc but they weren't ever established actors. By giving them these roles, JKR 100% had a hand in the privileged (at least in the monetary sense) lives they now lead, and they have both proved to be not very good actors as a result.

So that's what it's quite galling for them to have behaved the way they have behaved, difference of opinion or not.