She really does.
She really doesn’t. She is an actor who took a job. If she owes anyone, it is to the casting directors who chose her after she repeatedly proved herself to be capable across 8 auditions.
I don't loathe Emma Watson, but I do think she is an over privileged smug boring woke irritating young woman, who (as a pp said,) is so far removed from being an ordinary women of the UK, that it's insulting and infuriating that she thinks she can speak for the rest of us.
JKR came from a privileged middle class background, I find her smug and boring too. She is also far removed from being an ordinary woman but you are happy for her to speak for you? Presumably that because she has the same views. Watson hasn’t claimed to speak for anyone, she just has her own opinions, which she is allowed to have.
And whilst I agree that many people don't necessarily owe their career to the writers and producers, who produced the stuff they starred in, I do think Emma Watson does. As do some of the other Harry Potter actors, because they are really not the most amazing actors, and they were VERY lucky to have got the Harry Potter roles. The way they insult and berate JK Rowling is disgusting. I am embarrassed for them. They should be ashamed of themselves.
They were not “lucky” They were all heavily auditioned. And if they had been shit, no amount of good writing would have covered that up. They could have been replaced at any point. They worked hard and did a decent job. Rowling just wrote the stories. There are a whole load of other people who were involved in turning it into the movies which made her all the money.
Watson is bland and dull and mediocre in everything she does. And Radcliffe and Grint are even moreso! Bet you can't name more than 3 things that any of these 3 'stars' have done, without looking. I know I can't! They are incredibly forgettable. Their Harry Potter performances were probably some of their best work! So THAT is telling in itself, that their average performances in Harry Potter were some of their best work!
I can’t even name any of the Potter movies. I have seen bits of them as my daughter watches them, the kids seem no better or worse than most child actors. Rare to see any who blow you away. Also rare to see child actors transition to adult movies in any meaningful way, for every Jodie Foster there are a dozen Mara Wilsons. There are all sorts of reasons for that but people expect to see the adult character with the same quirks and traits they had as child actors and won’t see them as grown ups.
But all of that is entirely irrelevant as the point is, picking on her for this opinion by slagging off her acting skills is ridiculous and anti-feminist. Nobody has this amount of vitriol of her, or her role in Potter until she made her own view on this clear.