Actor Keira Knightley apologized for lending her voice within the new “Harry Potter” audiobooks after she was instructed some followers are boycotting the guide and movie sequence over writer J.Okay. Rowling’s transphobic remarks.
“I was not aware of [a boycott] ― no,” Knightley instructed Decider over the weekend.
“I am very sorry,” she added with fun.
She continued: “I think we’re all living in a period of time right now, we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. So I hope that we can all find respect.”
Some followers, nevertheless, didn’t admire her so-called apology.
“That laugh says NOT sorry,” wrote one person.
“The laughing makes it so insincere,” wrote one other.
Knightley’s representatives didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Final month, Pottermore Publishing and Audible introduced Knightley would voice Professor Dolores Umbridge in “Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.”
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” would be the first to be launched on Audible on Nov. 4. Rowling, who authored the guide sequence, gave her blessing for the audiobooks, however she won’t be concerned within the manufacturing, based on the official Harry Potter web site.
In recent times, longtime followers of the guide and film sequence have expressed their disappointment in Rowling’s transphobic remarks.
In 2020, Rowling first stirred controversy when she criticized an article that mentioned “people who menstruate.” Rowling wrote on social media on the time, “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?” Since then, her transphobic feedback have continued. In 2023, Rowling stated she would somewhat go to jail than silence her transphobic views, which she referred to as “the reality and importance of sex.”
Loads of celebrities have spoken out in opposition to Rowling, together with “Harry Potter” actors Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.
Shortly after Rowling’s first transphobic publish, Watson, who performed Hermione within the movie sequence, defended the trans group, writing on social media, “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.”
Radcliffe, who performed the lead in all eight “Harry Potter” movies, stated in an announcement by way of the Trevor Mission, a suicide prevention group for LGBTQ+ youth, that “transgender women are women.”
In the meantime, followers of the books and flicks have been left questioning if they will proceed to assist Rowling and “Harry Potter.” Some followers even need their “Harry Potter” tattoos coated up.
