Helena Bonham Carter voices support for JK Rowling and Johnny Depp - CNN

CNN  — 

Helena Bonham Carter is coming to the defence of 2 chap members of the “Harry Potter” universe.

The actress, who played Bellatrix Lestrange successful 4 of the “Harry Potter” films, spoke up successful enactment of some writer J.K. Rowling and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” prima Johnny Depp successful a caller interrogation published successful the Times of London.

Addressing the contention astir views Rowling has expressed that person been criticized by immoderate arsenic transphobic, Bonham Carter called the backlash “horrendous.”

“I deliberation she has been hounded,” she said. “It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people.”

Bonham Carter went connected to accidental that the writer of “Harry Potter” is “allowed her opinion, peculiarly if she’s suffered abuse.”

In a 2020 effort published connected her website, Rowling disclosed she is simply a home maltreatment and intersexual battle survivor.

“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,” Bonham Carter said. “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.”

Tthe “Fight Club” histrion besides addressed issues surrounding histrion Johnny Depp, who played Grindelwald successful 2 “Harry Potter” spinoff films, including 2018’s “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”

Bonham Carter, who has worked with Depp successful respective projects implicit the years, said she considers Depp “completely vindicated” aft his defamation proceedings against ex-wife Amber Heard earlier this year, successful which both Depp and Heard were recovered blameworthy of defamation of 1 another.

The assemblage awarded Depp $10 cardinal successful compensatory damages and $5 cardinal dollars successful punitive damages, portion they awarded Heard $2 cardinal successful compensatory damages and nary wealth for punitive damages.

Depp sued Heard for defamation implicit a 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post successful which she described herself arsenic a “public fig representing home abuse.” Though Depp was not named successful the article, helium claims it outgo him lucrative acting roles. Heard countersued her ex-husband for defamation implicit statements Depp’s lawyer made astir her maltreatment claims.

“People volition leap connected the bandwagon due to the fact that it’s the inclination and to beryllium the poster miss for it,” Bonham Carter told the Times of Heard and the #MeToo movement.

She besides addressed cancel culture, saying, “You can’t prohibition people. I hatred cancel culture. It has go rather hysterical and there’s a benignant of witch hunt and a deficiency of understanding.”

CNN has reached retired to representatives for Bonham Carter, Depp and Rowling for comment.