Emma Watson shocks fans with remarks about JK Rowling

Emma Watson has surprised fans with her remarks after breaking her silence over her long-running feud with JK Rowling.

Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, 36, previously spoke out against Rowling, 60, after the author penned an essay criticizing trans rights.

The pair’s relationship with Rowling has been strained ever since.

As for the controversy surrounding the creator and her anti-trans views, Watson said that despite disagreeing with her views, she believes “no one is disposable.”

“There is just no world in which I could ever cancel her out for, or cancel that out, for anything,” she shared regarding her past professional relationship with Rowling during an interview on the Jake Shetty podcast. “It has to remain true – it is true.”

She went on to say that she is “grateful” for the memories she has with Rowling, and that whatever the author says in the future it won’t change how she treasures their times together.

“I can love her, I can know she loved me, I can be grateful to her, I can know the things that she said are true, and there can be this whole other thing,” Watson added. “My job feels like just holding all of it, but the bigger thing is just what she’s done will never be taken away from me.”

Elsewhere during her interview, Watson opened up about her struggle to make friends in Hollywood after her time on Harry Potter came to an end.

“I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that the people I worked with were going to be my family and that we were going to be lifelong friends,” Watson explained while fighting back tears.

“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-breakingly painful because most people don’t come to those environments looking for friendships,” she added.

Watson went on to say that her experience working on the Potter franchise left her expecting more from the movie industry when she transitioned to other films.

“It’s so unusual to make a set of films for 12 years, and we were a community,” she noted. “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.”

“I’ll never say that I’ll quit acting. I’ll always be an actor. I’m still open to doing it again,” she added.