Daniel Radcliffe Reacts to Johnny Depp Casting
In light of #TimesUp, the comprehensive anti-sexual harassment, assault, and abuse movement started by a handful of very powerful women in Hollywood, there's been some controversy around accused physical and emotional abuser, Johnny Depp, being part of the upcoming Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald movie.
Author J.K. Rowling defended the decision to keep Depp in the role. "Based on our understanding of the circumstances, the filmmakers and I are not only comfortable sticking with our original casting, but genuinely happy to have Johnny playing a major character in the movies," she said.
Despite this, many Potter fans still want Depp replaced, just like director Ridley Scott did with Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World.
However, Fantastic Beasts director, David Yates, doesn't seem like he's going that route. "With Johnny, it seems to me there was one person who took a pop at him and claimed something. I can only tell you about the man I see every day: He's full of decency and kindness, and that's all I see," he said.
Now, Daniel Radcliffe is sharing his thoughts on keeping Depp in the movie, telling Entertainment Weekly:
"I can see why people are frustrated with the response that they were given from that... I’m not saying anything that anybody hasn’t already said - and this is a weird analogy to draw - but in the NFL, there are lots of players arrested for smoking weed and there is other people’s behavior that goes way beyond that and it’s tolerated because they’re very famous players. I suppose the thing I was struck by was, we did have a guy who was reprimanded for weed on the original 'Potter' film, essentially, so obviously what Johnny has been accused of is much greater than that."
Point, Radcliffe!
Amber Heard, Depp's ex-wife who accused him of domestic violence, publicly opened up about the subject of domestic violence for the second time in Porter magazine.
"You are not alone," she wrote in the letter. "You may have suffered alone behind closed doors, but you are not alone. You need to know that. I want to remind you of your strength, a strength that has been multiplied by the number of women who stand silently behind you - a truth that allowed me to break down the doors I once found myself behind."
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