First of all, how are you writing something like Harry Potter,
that's so big,
and it's so amazing
I'm not going to take away
what Harry Potter is, do you know what I mean?
And you don't even believe in it.
From the time she said
that she doesn't even f*****g believe in magic
I knew this b***h was a phony.
When, you know,
JK Rowling decided to use her platform
to attack a marginalised community,
which is under attack every day.
To say I was disheartened was... is an understatement.
You know, the film is what I would watch when I'm hangover, you know.
It is probably the last book that I read because I'm not a reader.
Not only has she come out and, you know, used her platform in this way
every single famous actor that
has been part of the franchise
from Daniel Radcliffe to, you know, Emma Watson
to Eddie Redmayne, have all come out and said
that what she's saying is wrong.
Riddikulus!
And what's a shame, what's really scary about it
is that her work
with the Harry Potter franchise, is to young people.
I'm scared.
If you look at the data,
it's not the trans community
that are the number one abuser towards women.
Because she tries to use the narrative that "I'm trying to protect women".
I feel like people are so used to
running to social media with all of their thoughts and opinions
and it's like: "Hold one, sometimes
just say nothing."
If you're going to talk, educate yourself and listen to people.
And what makes it terrible is that there are people screaming in her face
and she's not listening.
If you look at what has been happening in America with Trump.
You know, he's galvanised a whole community of people
that had these opinions
for the longest time
but feel like now they found their figure
to make what they're saying true and popular.
A few years back, I don't know if you remember but
there was this big discussion about why
the woman who plays Hermione is black.
Black.
And she came out and sort of
stood as someone saying: "Well, why can't she be black?"
You know? Definitely.
Yeah.
And so I thought that actually: "Oh maybe this person is progressive."
I don't think for a second that she actually
stood by these beliefs that she's saying.
I feel like what she's saying now, this is what she believes.
Nothing is really going to change
because these powerful people with negative opinions
are in that position because of us.
If we continue to watch their s**t,
follow, all that kind of stuff,
They are still going to continue to thrive.
So maybe I should stop watching... I'm going to boycot Harry Potter.
Oh no baby!
The magic of Harry Potter,
moments that you spend with your family or in school,
those things that don't belong to JK Rowling
they belong to me, you know?
I watched Kill Bill the other day,
realised that it was a Miramax film
and obviously that's a Harvey Weinstein film.
It's the same with Harry Potter.
Because it's like, Harry Potter, as you said,
is a huge part of my childhood
but this woman's tweets have poisoned it
and now I'm like:
"Am I supporting this literary demon
by watching her stuff?"
I'm freaking out about it because I want to be,
I want to have integrity and I want to stand by what I say
but I don't know where the line is.
Freedom of speech is something that we're all entitled to, I agree.
But you should be accountable for the things that you say.
What for me is scary is
who is the person holding people accountable.
Because if you imagine, like, Trump
if they're deciding who's accountable, then we're all f****d.
You know, for the trans community,
they never really had any tools to hold anyone accountable
for what they were saying.
Same with a lot of... or myself,
you know, seeing the black queer community
hold some rappers accountable for the things that they're saying.
You know, I was happy to see everybody
stand up for Lil Nas X when he dressed as Nicki Minaj a couple of weeks ago.
Before, it would have been OK for
you know, 50 Cent of whatever to say what he wanted to say.
Without anyone saying anything back to him.
I always cuss out my best friend because
she was raised in a Catholic household,
she went ti a Catholic all girls school
do you get what I mean?
So she had certain things that are inherited.
But me,
the most days things are working
I've been her best friend for 13 years and she's never disrespected me
said anything out of pocket and
that's my sister at the end of the day.
However, there are some times I've got to say to her, you know:
"No, babe, it's this."
Do you get what I mean?
And that's OK.
Do you know what's amazing about what you just described?
It's that you two are having
kitchen table talk.
Yes.
She's not going on social media
and tweeting all of these thoughts
that probably are incorrect.
I was raised in a household which actually had
some really bad values when it came to the black community.
So it was sort of like: "Black people are lazy,
Black people aren't doing nothing,
Black people are stealing, Black...
Could you imagine if I, as a 13-year-old, decided to
go and put all of that on to Twitter?