GET IT SORTED: Emma Watson Bites the Hand that Feeds Her

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In The Spectator, Zoe Strimpel takes actress Emma Watson to task for her recent attempt to publicly smooth things over with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, whom Watson and other Potter-film stars disavowed in Rowling’s time of need. Rowling was publicly feuding with the transgender movement, and a number of the people her work made wealthy and famous came out against her in public. Strimpel writes:

Watson’s last role as an actress was in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film Little Women. Since then she has kept herself rather weakly in the limelight by becoming a trans rights cheerleader, and, like her other Potter stars Eddie Redmayne and Daniel Radcliffe, turning on her fairy godmother J.K. Rowling for her “transphobia.” Rowling has posted on X that Watson and her fellow Potter actors were busy “pouring petrol on the flames” when she was getting death threats over trans rights and that unlike them, she “wasn’t a multimillionaire at 14.” Watson is now enrolled on a DPhil at Oxford on the philosophy of creative writing and, rather than jump on the rosé wine brigade, Watson has launched a gin distillery with her brother called Renais. The booze business gets them all in the end.

Watson wants people to love her. Of her public disavowal of J.K. Rowling, she mewled last week on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast that “It’s my deepest wish that people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.” Hm.

Here’s a clip of Watson making her recent comments on Rowling:

And here is Rowling’s response, which she posted on X.com: