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00:00J.K. Rowling just called Emma Watson ignorant. Here's what happened.

00:05Emma Watson did her first sit-down interview in years, and her first ever podcast, on Jay Shetty's On Purpose.

00:11She reflected on stepping away from acting and addressed J.K. Rowling's controversial views, prompting Rowling's strong response.

00:19After an initial tweet about gender, Rowling posted a detailed essay.

00:23She wrote,

00:24Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint publicly voiced support for trans women after Rowling's essay.

00:48Radcliffe wrote for The Trevor Project, Watson tweeted, and Grint released a statement.

00:52Emma also went viral for presenting at the BAFTAs on behalf of all the witches.

00:58When a follower suggested Emma and Daniel should apologize, Rowling tweeted,

01:02celebs who cozied up to a movement intent on eroding women's hard-won rights

01:06can save their apologies for traumatized detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single-sex spaces.

01:13During his Broadway run, Radcliffe told The Atlantic the feud with Rowling made him really sad.

01:18He said,

01:19I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected.

01:23If those are Joe's views, they are not the views of everybody associated with the Potter franchise.

01:28In an interview with Variety, Tom Felton said,

01:31I'm not really that attuned to it.

01:34I have not seen anything bring the world together more than Potter.

01:37She's responsible for that.

01:39So I'm incredibly grateful.

01:41Emma said she still loves Rowling, even as she affirms trans rights.

01:45I will never believe that one negates the other.

01:48I just don't think these things are either-or.

01:50She added,

01:52I just see this world right now, where we seem to be permitting this throwing out of people.

01:57I just believe that no one is disposable.

02:00After Watson's interview went viral, Rowling released a lengthy statement.

02:04She said actors were free to disagree, but accused Emma and Daniel of assuming the role of de facto spokespeople.

02:10Rowling criticized Watson's privilege, calling her ignorant of how ignorant she is,

02:15contrasting it with her own poverty before success.

02:18She concluded,

02:20Adults can't expect to cozy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination,

02:25then assert their right to the former friend's love.

02:28Emma is rightly free to disagree with me.

02:30But I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.