Helena Bonham Carter is saying what she thinks about a few of her fellow actors who have been in trouble.
In a new interview with The Sunday Times Magazine, the 56-year-old actress said that she thinks Johnny Depp has been “completely vindicated” by his six-week defamation trial against Amber Heard earlier this year. She has worked with Johnny Depp in a number of movies. In January of this year, the trial started.
I think he’s fine now,
Bonham Carter told the newspaper that she was the first woman to be named president of the London Library.
Totally fine.
Bonham Carter’s comments come a few months after a Virginia jury decided that Heard, 36, slandered Depp, 59, in an opinion piece she wrote about domestic violence for the Washington Post in 2018. Even though Heard didn’t name her ex-husband in the article, the jury still decided that she lied about him. Over $10 million in damages were given to Depp, while Heard won one of her defamation counterclaims and got $2 million. Both of them are appealing to the decisions that were made against them.
In 2018, the Sun newspaper said that Depp was a “wife-beater,” and Depp sued the newspaper for libel. But the case was thrown out because a judge said in a written statement that the publication’s description was “substantially true.” This statement was sent out by the UK Ministry of Justice.
When asked by The Sunday Times if Depp’s recent case was the “pendulum of #MeToo swinging back,” Bonham Carter said that she thinks Heard “got on that pendulum.”
That’s the problem with these things — that people will jump on the bandwagon because it’s the trend and to be the poster girl for it,
Bonham Carter said.
In another part of her talk, Bonham Carter talked about how J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has been criticized over the past few years.
In a series of tweets posted in June 2020, the author gave the impression that she agreed with people who don’t like transgender people. This was the first thing that started the controversy that followed. Rowling, who is 57 years old, doubled down on her controversial views in a long essay that was posted on her website a few days after she denied that her views on feminism were transphobic.
It’s horrendous, a load of bollocks. I think she has been hounded. It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people. She’s allowed her opinion, particularly if she’s suffered abuse.
Bonham Carter’s comment about Rowling seems to refer to the fact that Rowling will say in 2020 that she has been a victim of both sexual assault and domestic violence.
Everybody carries their own history of trauma and forms their opinions from that trauma and you have to respect where people come from and their pain,
she said.
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.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, among other Harry Potter actors, have all said that they don’t agree with Rowling’s controversial comments about the transgender community.
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,
Watson, 32, wrote on Twitter in June 2020.
I want my trans followers to know that I and so many other people around the world see you, respect you and love you for who you are.
When asked if she thought her co-stars were “ungrateful,” Bonham Carter said she didn’t get that feeling from them.
I won’t say that. Personally, I feel they should let her have her opinions, but I think they’re very aware of protecting their own fan base and their generation,
she said.
It’s hard. One thing with the fame game is that there’s an etiquette that comes with it; I don’t agree with talking about other famous people.
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