Helena Bonham Carter defends JK Rowling and Johnny Depp in new interview - The Independent

Helena Bonham Carter has spoken retired successful defence of her erstwhile collaborators JK Rowling and Johnny Depp.

Carter appeared arsenic Bellatrix Lestrange successful the Harry Potter movie franchise, based connected the books by Rowling.

She has besides appeared alongside Depp successful 7 films together, 5 of which were directed by her erstwhile spouse Tim Burton.

Rowling has go a polarising fig successful caller years acknowledgment to her views connected transgender rights, which person been accused by LGBT+ activists and organisations of being transphobic. The writer has denied that she is transphobic.

Speaking to The Times in a caller interview, Bonham Carter said: “It’s horrendous, a load of b******s. I deliberation [Rowling] has been hounded. It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people. She’s allowed her opinion, peculiarly if she’s suffered abuse.

“Everybody carries their ain past of trauma and forms their opinions from that trauma and you person to respect wherever radical travel from and their pain. You don’t each person to hold connected everything – that would beryllium insane and boring. She’s not meaning it aggressively, she’s conscionable saying thing retired of her ain experience.”

Depp, meanwhile, was embroiled successful a high-profile ineligible conflict with his ex-wife, the histrion Amber Heard, earlier this year.

The Pirates of the Caribbean star had sued Heard, alleging that she had defamed him successful a 2018 op-ed astir home unit published by the Washington Post. Depp claimed that the portion implied helium had abused her portion the brace were married.

A assemblage yet recovered that Heard had defamed Depp, and the Aquaman actor was ordered to wage her ex-husband $10m (£8m) successful compensatory damages and $5m successful punitive damages. However, the assemblage besides ruled successful favour of Heard’s countersuit, uncovering that 1 of Depp’s attorneys had defamed her by characterising her maltreatment allegations arsenic a “hoax”. Heard is acceptable to entreaty the decision.

In the Times interview, Bonham Carter claimed that the tribunal verdict had vindicated Depp, who is besides godfather to her children, Billy Ray, 18, and Nell, 14.

“Oh, I deliberation he’s wholly vindicated,” she said. “I deliberation he’s good now. Totally fine.”

Asked if the libel lawsuit was the “pendulum of #MeToo swinging back”, Bonham Carter replied: “My presumption is that [Heard] got connected that pendulum. That’s the occupation with these things – that radical volition leap connected the bandwagon due to the fact that it’s the inclination and to beryllium the poster miss for it.”

A British tribunal had antecedently ruled successful favour of The Sun after the insubstantial described Depp arsenic a “wife-beater”, ruling that the statement was “substantially true”.

Elsewhere successful the interview, Bonham Carter besides spoke astir the 21-year property spread betwixt herself and her existent partner.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is experiencing home abuse, you tin telephone the 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline, tally by Refuge, connected 0808 2000 247, oregon sojourn their website here.