Helena Bonham Carter speaks up for JKR

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Another fabulous talent on the "wrong side of history" eh?

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/22538022-69a8-11ed-a782-0f22726b9287?shareToken=01b378fc324bfc250f957ad16f531dc0

Noooo, what she's doing is defending Polanski, Weinstein and Allen. And Depp. She is bang out of order and a rape apologist. Right there.

Woody Allen shouldn't have been lumped together with Weinstein and Polanski. Here's what his son wrote about the accusations: mosesfarrow.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-son-speaks-out-by-moses-farrow.html

Yep.

We don't need to be grateful for the faint praise of celebrities.

I don't actually give a hoot what some actress says or thinks on the issue. We know how brave, honest, compassionate and insightful JKR is; the performative media circus has just very little relevance to the truth of the matter.

Heard continues to be pilloried, months after the trial’s end but, as Bonham Carter told The Times, the US defamation verdict seems to have “completely vindicated” Depp. The televised trial exposed the filth that the actor was swimming in – the obscene text messages, the intimidating, aggressive behaviour, the casual racism and misogyny – but Bonham Carter seems unperturbed by it. She told The Times: “I think he’s fine now. Totally fine.”

It feels to me like a kick to women’s collective solar plexus for Bonham Carter to refer to #MeToo as a “bandwagon”. As if the harassment and abuse of women is the latest craze, like laminated eyebrows or structured maxi skirts. “That’s the problem with these things – that people will jump on the bandwagon because it’s the trend and to be the poster girl for it.”

Yes, Helena. That’s right. Because the dream of every little girl is that one day, she too, can be the poster girl for intimate partner violence.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/helena-bonham-carter-johnny-depp-amber-heard-b2234371.html

(Perhaps actors and actresses should remember they have got fame for speaking other people's words, not their own.)

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I think HBC is stunningly beautiful and if I could look like anyone in the world it would be her. That's rather shallow, I know.

But I have always been disappointed on reading any interviews or articles about her. She always strikes me as slightly vacuous - I don't think she has much of interest to say. Her comment about JKR is actually rather wishy-washy.

All she can say about Johnny Depp is "I think he's fine now"?

She says something else that irritates me in that article too - she never left her kids alone at home until they were 14? Isn't that a bit odd. Or a lie.

I think Helena is absolutely wonderful. I don't think it's a stretch to see that she shares the same beliefs as JKR - but the point she was trying to make was that the treatment of JKR for expressing views has been horrendous. And while she's careful not to pile onto the younger cast members from HP, I think there's subtle shade there regarding them "protecting their fan base".

She's never been one to particularly insert herself into the limelight but she's remained a supporter of Johnny Depp even before he won his case against Amber Heard.

Having watched that court case, I find it utterly incredible that anyone still believes Amber Heard. The UK case against The Sun was only "proven" because her testimony was accepted as being truthful, which is now known not to be the case. I do think Depp is misogynistic and a nightmare partner, but that's not on trial. The lengths people go to trying to make Amber Heard's story credible just beggars belief. There's no way people would be carrying out the same mental gymnastics if the roles were reversed.

But back to Helena, I think she's very quintessentially British with the stereotypical knack for understatement. I think she's down to earth, savvy and doesn't have any time for self-indulgence. I quite liked her side-swipe at the last two Prime Ministers too!

I agree with you. And I thought her comments on JKR amounted to "blaming" her perfectly sound and sensible opinions on "trauma".