Helena Bonham Carterhas defended authorJ.K.
Rowlingand fellow actorJohnny Deppin a new interview following their controversies and legal troubles, respectively.
Bonham Carter portrayed unhinged dark witch Bellatrix Lestrange in theHarry Potterfilms, which are based on Rowling’s books.
Helena Bonham Carter defends both J.K. Rowling and Johnny Depp in an interview with the ‘Times.'.Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images; Nicky J Sims/Getty Images; Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
She also worked with Depp extensively in movies ranging fromDark ShadowsandSweeney ToddtoCharlie and the Chocolate FactoryandAlice in Wonderland.
“I think she has been hounded,” she continued.
“It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people.
‘Harry Potter’ creator and author J.K. Rowling.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
She’s allowed her opinion, particularly if she’s suffered abuse.
You don’t all have to agree on everything that would be insane and boring.
She’s not meaning it aggressively, she’s just saying something out of her own experience.”
Johnny Depp is getting back to work after his legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard.Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images
Rowling has said in the past that she’s not anti-trans and that she supports trans people.
feminists that don’t believe trans women are women.
Bonham Carter referred toan op-ed Rowling wrote in 2020.
She shared her own experience as a survivor of abuse.
Bonham Carter went on to blame Twitter for inflaming the hate towards Rowling.
“The verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting, it’s appalling,” he said.
“I mean, I can understand a viewpoint that might be angry at what she says about women.
But it’s not some obscene, uber-right-wing fascist.
And I understand where she’s coming from.
Even though I’m not a woman.”
TheTimesalso asked Bonham Carter about Depp.
She remarked, “Oh, I think he’s completely vindicated.
I think he’s fine now.
A jury sided with Depp in the U.S. trial.
A judged awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
Heard won her defamation countersuit and was awarded $2 million in compensatory damages.
She did not receive punitive damages.
Heard had argued that Depp, through his legal team, defamed her by calling her allegations a hoax.
Both Depp and Heard areappealing each other’s verdicts.
Depp, however,lost his suit against the U.K.‘sSunnewspaper in 2020.
Heard testified during those proceedings.
Depp maintains that he did not abuse Heard.
Heard maintains that he did.
Read Bonham Carter’sfull interview with theTimes.
