Sitting on a soft sofa, legs on the lush, Emma Watson trusted the podcast for two and a half hours in the podcast Purpose with Jay ShettyPublished Wednesday on YouTube, then transmitted by Variety. The opportunity for which he interpreted the heroine of Harry Potter From 2001 to 2011 to return to his complicated relationship with JK Rowling, of which he moved in recent years due to his controversial opinions about trans identity.
In 2020, after the writer published a series of tweets and a text of 3,600 words, considered transbic by many, Emma Watson had divided a brief statement in his social networks where he expressed his support for the transgender community: “Trans are the ones who say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or accused of not being.”
Open to dialogue
The British star returns today to her relationship with Jk Rowkling, whom she refuses to deny: “I really do not think this experience has lived and maintaining the love, support and opinions I have, it means that I cannot appreciate Jo, this person with whom I had personal experiences. I will never believe that one denies the other and that I cannot see my experience with this person. [J.K. Rowling]. “
“I do not think it is necessary to choose between one or the other, she also indicated. My most expensive desire is that people who do not share my opinion love me and that I can continue loving those with whom I do not necessarily share the same opinion.” And to add: “I think what bothers me the most is that a conversation has never been possible.”
The host asked him if he was still open to this dialogue. “Yes, and I will always be. I believe it. I believe it totally,” he said.
“Happy than ever”
Emma Watson, who put her career as an actor in parentheses almost seven years ago, no longer appears on the big screen since Dr. March’s daughters From Greta Gerwig in 2019, he had already given some news at the end of last week, in an interview with Hollywood Authentic.
The majority of Harry Potter casting members have distanced themselves from the author of the saga. Daniel Radcliffe, in particular, who embodied the young magician, cut the bridges with JK Rowling of his controversial tweets.
“It makes me very sad,” he said in 2024. “I think of the person I met, the moments we have shared, the books he wrote, to the world he has created, and everything that seems so deeply empathic.”
But some continue to defend it. Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) said in June 2025 as “grateful” with the British writer despite his positions. And Evanna Lynch, the interpreter of Luna Lovegood, asked “to be indulgence towards him.”
Source: BFM TV
