Helena Bonham Carter defends Johnny Depp, JK Rowling

British actor Helena Bonham Carter, who is best known for her work in the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise, and Netflix’s ‘The Crown’, opened up about her hatred of the ongoing cancel culture in a recent interview with The Sunday Times Magazine. She slammed people cancelling writer JK Rowling and actor Johnny Depp, who has been her co-star in several films like ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ and ‘Alice in Wonderland’.

She said the hate culture has become ‘quite hysterical’ and ‘there’s a kind of witch hunt and a lack of understanding’.

When asked if Johnny Depp could have a chance at a resurgence in Hollywood after allegations of domestic abuse, Helena said that he’s completely vindicated and she thinks he’s fine now.

The highly publicized Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial that took place earlier this year. Depp had sued the ‘Aquaman’ actor after she referred to herself as a domestic violence survivor in a 2018 Washington Post op-ed.

Helena also supported author JK Rowling for her alleged transphobic comments and said that she has been ‘hounded.’

‘It’s horrendous. I think she has been hounded. It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people. She’s allowed her opinion, particularly if she’s suffered abuse.

Everybody carries their own history of trauma and forms their opinions from that trauma and you have to respect where people come from and their pain. You don’t all have to agree on everything — that would be insane and boring. She’s not meaning it aggressively, she’s just saying something out of her own experience,’ Helena said.

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