J.K. Rowling shared a parody clip poking fun at Harry Potter star Emma Watson after the actress made a surprise U-turn on her opinions of the author.
The famed author, 60, previously confessed that she wouldn’t ‘forgive’ the stars of the iconic franchise – Emma, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe – after they shared their views on transgender women.
Emma, 35, recently addressed the speculated tension between the pair in a new interview on Jay Shetty’s podcast, On Purpose.
As she addressed Rowling, she admitted that ‘the thing I’m most upset about is that a conversation was never made possible’ and that she was ‘always open’ to one.
‘I think it’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with,’ she explained.
But it doesn’t seem that Rowling shares the same feeling as she shared a spoof clip of Emma during the podcast to X.
J.K. Rowling shared a parody clip poking fun at Harry Potter star Emma Watson after the actress made a surprise U-turn on her opinions of the author
Emma, 35, recently addressed the speculated tension between the pair in a new interview on Jay Shetty’s podcast, On Purpose (pictured in 2011)
X user intel_lady shared the clip and was seen wearing a wig to mimic the actor’s appearance as she shares a satirical take on her words towards Rowling.
In the clip, the parody Watson said: ‘I will always hold space for her and so much love in my heart for her, and I would hope that she felt the same way about me.
‘But also I stand shoulder to shoulder with those who would wish harm on her, hate her and would wish the absolute worst for her in her life.
‘But those seemingly incompatible, those two things can exist at the same time, which is why I love this incredibly diverse world that we live in…’
Alongside the clip, the user penned: ‘Emma watcson finally breaks her silence and shares her truth about the rift with JK Rowling. Spoiler alert- You may need some vinaigrette to consume this’
Rowling reshared the clip and wrote: ‘I’m already missing @intel_lady’s Angela Rayner, but I’m here for ALL the spoofs’.
The clip comes after Emma insisted she still ‘treasures’ Rowling despite their different views on trans rights as she seemingly made a screeching U-turn on her opinion on the Harry Potter author.
The Hermione Granger star has previously hit out at Rowling and relations between the creator of multi-billion-pound movie franchise and its actors have been notably frosty for years.
While Emma said she ‘still treasures’ Rowling, it doesn’t seem that the author shares the same feeling as she shared a spoof clip of Emma in the interview to X
Last year Rowling publicly stated that she could not ‘forgive’ Emma and Daniel Radcliffe or other celebrities who ‘cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights’.
During an appearance on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast, Emma admitted that while she strongly supports trans rights, she still holds space for the woman who played such an important role in her life.
Emma said: ‘I really don’t believe that by having had that experience and holding the love and support and views that I have, mean that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I, that I had personal experiences with.
‘I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don’t get to keep and cherish to come back to our earlier thing. Like I just don’t think these things are either or.
‘I think it’s my deepest wish that I, I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.’
J.K. Rowling comments were made following the publication of the long-awaited Cass report into gender treatment in the UK, which recommended that changes should be made to the way young people are advised and puberty blockers should no longer be prescribed.
Rowling hit out at stars who use their ‘platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors’ and said people who supported gender transitioning in children should apologise to ‘traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces’.
The writer has been vocal in her opposition of allowing children to change their gender, while Radcliffe and Watson have been outspoken in their support of the trans community.
Emma went on to discuss feeling ‘broken’ by Hollywood, and believed that the experience she had on the Harry Potter set she would have throughout her career.
The clip comes after Emma insisted she still ‘treasures’ Rowling despite their different views on trans rights as she seemingly made a screeching U-turn on her opinion
She said: ‘I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that we were, the people I worked with were going to be my family, and that we were going to be lifelong friends.
‘I came to work looking for friendship, and that was a very painful experience for me. Outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood, like, bone breaking, really painful, um, because most people don’t come to those environments looking for friendships.
‘They’re looking for, this is my chance, this is my role, this is what I want out of it. I’m focused, this is my job, this is my career. Like, let’s go. And I was not of that mindset. And so I found the rejection really painful.
‘I think it was so unusual to make a set of films for 12 years and we were a community. Like we, we really were. And so I took that as an expectation into my other workplaces. And I just got my ass kicked. I really did. It, yeah, it broke me.’
