Evanna Lynch: ‘JK Rowling has always advocated for the most vulnerable members of society’

Good to see one of the young cast defending JK Rowling. Article is much longer than follows.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/harry-potters-evanna-lynch-jk-rowling-has-always-advocated-vulnerable/

Evanna Lynch, the Irish actress best known for playing Luna Lovegood in four Harry Potter films, has been facing up to her prejudices.

Three days later, after an intervention by Harry himself, Daniel Radcliffe, Lynch posted a lengthy response. “I won’t be helping to marginalise trans women and men further,” she wrote, adding: “I think it’s irresponsible to discuss such a delicate topic over Twitter through fragmented thoughts and I wish Jo wouldn’t … That said, as a friend and admirer of Jo I can’t forget what a generous and loving person she is.” Headlines accused her and fellow castmates of being “Wizards of Woke” responsible for a “great betrayal”. Meanwhile, fans lashed out at Lynch for trying to posit any defence of Rowling at all. The actress soon closed her Twitter account.

There is something very precise about Lynch. During our interview, her poise is broken only by her dog, Mallow, rescued from a bin on an island in the Indian Ocean, scurrying around the table. She says she was shocked by the backlash against Rowling “especially when she wrote her essay [revealing experiences in her unhappy first marriage]. I just felt that her character has always been to advocate for the most vulnerable members of society. The problem is that there’s a disagreement over who’s the most vulnerable. I do wish people would just give her more grace and listen to her.”