JK Rowling shared a parody video of Emma Watson mocking her feedback about their relationship in a brand new podcast interview amid an ongoing rift.
The Harry Potter writer, 60, has beforehand mentioned she gained’t ‘forgive’ the kid stars – Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe – after the trio shared their views on transgender girls, given her personal closely criticised views on trans points.
For the primary time in years, the Hermione Granger actor, 35, addressed the seeming divide between the pair in a brand new interview on Jay Shetty’s podcast, On Goal.
Discussing her emotions in direction of Rowling, the Little Girls star shared that ‘the factor I’m most upset about is {that a} dialog was by no means made doable’ and that she’s ‘at all times open’ to at least one.
‘I believe it’s my deepest want that I hope individuals who don’t agree with my opinion will love me and I hope I can preserve loving individuals who I don’t essentially share the identical opinion with,’ she concluded.
The writer, nevertheless, seems to have proven she doesn’t essentially really feel the identical manner.
Taking to X after the podcast interview, she shared a spoof clip of Watson, the place X consumer intel_lady has donned a wig to imitate the actor’s look as she shares a satirical tackle her phrases in direction of Rowling.
At one level within the video, the parody Watson says: ‘I’ll at all times maintain area for her and a lot love in my coronary heart for her, and I might hope that she felt the identical manner about me.
‘But additionally I stand shoulder to shoulder with those that would want hurt on her, hate her and would want absolutely the worst for her in her life. However these seemingly incompatible, these two issues can exist on the identical time, which is why I like this extremely various world that we reside in…’
Rowling – who additionally writes beneath the pseudonym Robert Galbraith – reposted the clip with the caption: ‘I’m already lacking @intel_lady’sAngela Rayner, however I’m right here for ALL the spoofs,’ alongside a laughing emoji.
In April 2024, Rowling praised the findings of the Cass Evaluation, which checked out gender identification companies for under-18s, and located that youngsters had been ‘let down’ up to now by a failure to base gender care on evidence-based analysis.
After posting her approval of the findings, one X consumer Adam Harris, mentioned he was ready for a ‘public apology’ from the three actors ‘secure within the information [Rowling] would forgive them.’
Rowling replied on the time: ‘Not secure, I’m afraid.
‘Celebs who cosied as much as a motion intent on eroding girls’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and weak girls reliant on single intercourse areas.’
In 2020, Watson posted: ‘Trans persons are who they are saying they’re and need to reside their lives with out being consistently questioned or instructed they aren’t who they are saying they’re.’
In the meantime, each Radcliffe and Grint have additionally shared their solidarity with trans individuals previously as effectively.
The identical yr, Radcliffe penned a be aware, saying: ‘Transgender girls are girls.
‘Any assertion on the contrary erases the identification and dignity of transgender individuals and goes towards all recommendation given by skilled well being care associations who’ve way more experience on this subject material than both Jo or I.’
This yr, Rowling confronted criticism from trans rights activists after it was reported that she had donated £70k to For Girls Scotland, the campaigning group behind the Supreme Court docket ruling on what the definition of a girl is.
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