Emma Watson's dig at JKR

[IamSarah]

It appears she said at the BAFTAs 'I am here for all of the witches... bar one'

Disappointing but not unexpected.

twitter.com/emwatsonbestof/status/1503505167207084034?s=21

Whatever the opinion I think the main thing that stands out to me is the class, grace and dignity that is present in everything JK Rowling does. Notability lacking here.

Having just watched the clip Jobseeker posters, it sounds/looks to me as if she says 'by the way' at the end, rather than 'bar one'

Either way I'm sure JKR is fine without her

I remember sticking up for her on a thread a few years ago, I was basically saying she’s young, it must be very frightening to go against the grade bla bla. It was pointed out to me that I was seeing the young girl in the HP movies not the 30 something rich privileged white woman that was ACTIVELY being snarky to JKR. Well a few years on and she’s still doing it, still pandering to the room at the expense of someone else. I don’t know if she said bar one but I do know she was happy to be introduced with the witch comment and how that would be construed. If she had any clas, empathy or emotional intelligence she would have stopped that not joined in with the joke. Badly done Emma.

@IamSarah

That clip will come back to haunt her. She will find it very embarrassing in a few years.

Good

I didn’t realise she said bar one…charming

What happened to the other thread about this

Deleted for not being in the spirit I’m assuming

@TheMarzipanDildo

“Hate to break this one to you but, as an Ivy League alumnus, I’m going to take a punt she’s a damn lot more intelligent than most of the posters here.”

I suspect she’s just a damn sight richer.

Thanks to you-know-who

Frankly if the fact she's an Ivy League Alumnus means that's she's a 'damm sight more intelligent than anyone here', then I'm surprised that she wasn't able to formulate a more impressive comment to make about feminism, if that was her intention. 'I'm here for all the witches', which was presumably a line she considered in advance is just bit meh even if she didn't say the (frankly childish) 'bar one'.

@Chersfrozenface

"Hate to break this one to you but, as an Ivy League alumnus, I’m going to take a punt she’s a damn lot more intelligent than most of the posters here. "

Alumna. If you use Latin, get it right.

Oh, welll played, @Chersfrozenface!

As for 'damn lot more intelligent' , if that's an attempt to suggest that us silly old mummies had our brains removed with the placenta, it's a very sexist observation. There are people posting here from all sorts of backgrounds, some who had the benefit of higher education and some who didn't (for all sorts of reasons), but the one thing that stands out is that FWR posters tend to know what they're talking about and to be able to explain and support their arguments. Simply firing off insults doesn't cut it here.

She thinks she’s terribly clever, doesn’t she?

Educated beyond her intelligence, deeply spiteful and certainly no feminist. I’m embarrassed for her.

JKR is one hundred times the woman Emma Watson will ever be.

'Bar one' doesn't sound like the sort of phrase a youngster would come out with, but she could simply come out and clarify: if she doesn't it suggests she's fine with the TRA social media take on it.

I'm no fan, but to me it looks like she says "by the way" not "bar one".

Either way, if you're slagging someone off in public, have the guts to say it out loud.

Can someone remind me in what films she's been, after the HP franchise?

I must have blinked and missed her achievements since.

@Gumbomambo

I remember sticking up for her on a thread a few years ago, I was basically saying she’s young, it must be very frightening to go against the grade bla bla. It was pointed out to me that I was seeing the young girl in the HP movies not the 30 something rich privileged white woman that was ACTIVELY being snarky to JKR. Well a few years on and she’s still doing it, still pandering to the room at the expense of someone else. I don’t know if she said bar one but I do know she was happy to be introduced with the witch comment and how that would be construed. If she had any clas, empathy or emotional intelligence she would have stopped that not joined in with the joke. Badly done Emma.

This 100%

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

Can someone remind me in what films she's been, after the HP franchise?

I must have blinked and missed her achievements since.

A ridic

Ridiculously shit one where she played a call centre operative in a Google type business. I think it was called Circle

i watched this live and don't think she said this at all

She was Belle in the life action Disney remake of Beauty and the Beast. And she was in Little Women. I also think she was a weak link in acting terms in the HP films.

@Janesmom

Hate to break this one to you but, as an Ivy League alumnus, I’m going to take a punt she’s a damn lot more intelligent than most of the posters here.

Ooo 'ark at thee. I'oid betta get back to diggin up me turnips, me.

A ridic

A decade well spent then.

These threads are hilarious

i watched this live and don't think she said this at all

Presumably you can see it now though on the clip?

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

Can someone remind me in what films she's been, after the HP franchise?

I must have blinked and missed her achievements since.

Well one fantastic achievement she’s had was being in the only princess movie that my oldest daughter didn’t want to watch the end of.

And we’ve seen the Cinderella one so often DH once answered a pin quiz question with ‘the prince’ instead of ‘robb stark.’

She very clearly said 'bar one'.

Absolutely no class at all.

What nominations was she up for, by the way? Anyone know?

I was thinking of JKR today though after seeing the new fantastic beasts movie trailer. Was very surprised Eddie redmayne was interested in continuing to star in a series written by someone who he disagrees with in such a fundamental level.

@RufustheFloralmissingreindeer

Hate to break this one to you but, as an Ivy League alumnus, I’m going to take a punt she’s a damn lot more intelligent than most of the posters here

That would be a silly thing to do

I see what you did there 🤣🤣 !

Thought the year out from Brown to Oxford as a Visiting Student was a cheeky move.