Emma Watson Is Everything Wrong With Hollywood
Emma Watson is a byproduct of a failing culture war narrative. You see, this video won’t just be about the story of Emma Watson. We’re not just going to go over some petty drama here because you’re about to see how Emma Watson’s public takedown is a tipping point in a culture war that has ruined our entertainment, media, and politics.
The actions that have made us all poorer, unable to afford to live. Our culture identity has been stripped down and hollowed out, and we can’t even speak about this stuff. All because the narrative has been warped. All the people that should be speaking about this stuff aren’t because this benefits a guarded off elite class that doesn’t even have to touch or see the very problems they distract us from.
The actions of those like Emma Watson who pushed narratives that kept a failing status quo in check and now being exposed for their actions day by day. And then Emma Watson’s career crumbled with just a single podcast episode. In a Twitter post, JK Rowling labeled the actress as ignorant of how ignorant she is and said that I wasn’t a multi-millionaire at 14.
I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. But why had this feud begun? Days before, Emma appeared on a podcast and said this about JK Rowling. It’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.
so many conversations and comments directly from JK Rowling or the fact that when she was asked what ruins the movies for her, she named yourself. It’s not so much what we say or what we believe, but very often how we say it. No, no one’s disposable. The two statements are wildly different. One a cutting takedown, another a load of Hollywood dril.
But it soon became clear that this feud was the result of two people who have just gone down very similar paths in the culture war and yet have ended up in completely different situations today. The contrast between JK Rowling and Emma revealed what happens when you wake up to the truth in celebrity culture and what happens when you stay in it.
And as time progressed, the woke culture faded away and reality has now changed. People today are now very well aware of celebrity virtue signaling and the backlash against it has been growing for years. It’s why most celebrities don’t even bother with it anymore. When Kiara Nightly was asked about why she wasn’t participating in the latest JK Rowling boycott, she even refused to answer.
Um, I was wondering, are you aware that some fans are calling for a boycott giving JK Rowling’s ongoing campaign against trans people? I was not aware of that. No, I’m very sorry. Um, you know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now. We’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions.
So, I hope that we can all find respect. And everyone commended her for doing so. Nobody wants to hear a load of dril because today the woke era has officially ended. The corporations, celebrities, and billionaires, which were once its most powerful defenders, have mostly abandoned identity politics. throwing in their lots with Trump like all the tech bros or just completely ignoring politics entirely.
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Some actors were completely unknown before they got their big break. They worked for years to earn their place in the industry, climbing the ladder based on their own merits. Emma Watson was not one of these actors. Instead, she belongs to the everinccreasing portion of famous people whose path to fame was laid out for them all before they were even born.
The daughter of two Parisian lawyers, Emma grew up in extreme wealth. Well, before she ever stepped on stage, her father was already buying vineyards in France and carving a place out for her in high society. It was through his connections in the family wealth that Emma landed in the right place at the right time.
As a young child, Emma spent most of her time in Oxford, England. There she attended a private school where she was taught acting and performing arts. Those fees today cost around $33,000 and49,000 per year, almost $70,000 a year just on school. When she was 10, the casting call for Harry Potter went out and naturally the casting team visited her school.
The school already looked like something straight out of Hogwarts and so too did the students. And out of her classmates, she would be one of the lucky few chosen to move forward with auditions. Even at this incredibly early point, JK Rowling was instrumental in her career. In the first screen test, she picked Emma out from the others and supported her as the right choice for Hermione.
And so, obviously, this ended up with her getting the part. In early interviews from when she was a kid, you can already tell that Emma’s life had been completely changed. When she was just 11, Entertainment Weekly asked whether she felt like she was a celebrity. She said no, saying that she still had to make a bed and that her friends all treated her the same.
However, from such a young age, she was now already seeing her face on billboards, being driven from movie set to movie set, and constantly living that other life. The life that almost every kid could dream of. But on the other hand, it must have been really hard for her to create her own identity when she was spending so much time pretending to be someone else in her own little bubble.
She never had to really train for this role or really do anything to get this whatsoever. Meaning she never really had the grounding of a normal life. She never knew things like what it was like to do the laundry, having to really study at school or really ever go through hardship. And the social aspect was far worse.
From 10 years old, she was set apart from all of her friends and people her own age. She was now a movie star and it would have completely changed everything. So, how could she ever separate that from her own identity, from her own personality? For Emma, you can bet everyone was worshiping the ground she walked on. So, why bother trying at the rest of life when you don’t need to? At the same time, you’re constantly under a magnifying glass while you’re on stage or on set. It’s a double-edged sword.
You can see how much this can mess with people from the stories of other child actors. They often talk about the unusual pressures of instant fame, which is especially hard to deal with alongside all the other problems that come with growing up. Demi Lovato, a product of the Disney pipeline, had her own problems, and described her early fame as traumatic and said that no child should ever be put in the limelight.
It’s too much pressure. There’s an absence of childhood that you never get to experience. And if you look at any other child actor, they’ll usually say the same thing. And this was even crazier for Emma Watson, as from the ages of 10 to 20, she had never stepped foot outside the Harry Potter bubble.
Imagine this gave her everything. Immense wealth, international fame, and a whole world of opportunities, but it still took its toll as well. From the interviews, you can tell that she knew this had all been freely given to her. In 2012, she said, “I have had no control over my life. I have lived in a complete bubble.
They found me and picked me for the part. And now I’m desperately trying to find my way through it. So at this point, how can you forge a real identity if you’ve had such a perfect life to begin with and never really had to go through real struggle? As from these interviews, you get the sense she was caught between two worlds.
One where she could be herself and one where she was always the most important person in the room. However, JK Rowling’s childhood was very different. She didn’t find her fame early. Her life was incredibly normal for the time. In fact, her life was far closer to Harry Potter’s than to Daniel Radcliffe’s or Emma Watson’s. She suffered greatly from mental health problems, especially when her mother became sick with MS at a very young age.
In her teens, Ringling was pushed into the background. Despite being smart, she was rejected from universities when she applied. Her state school background meant she was far less likely to get a place despite her higher grades and obvious natural talents. Even in this, Emma was more privileged because of who she was.
She’s always been accepted at universities. During the Pottery years and afterwards as well, Emma retreated into academia. But of course, this just led to a different kind of bubble. Not only because her fame meant she could study anywhere as she bounced around from Brown in the US and then to Oxford University, but also because the universities themselves also made her even further out of touch.
Universities are the centers of where all the worst thinking about society comes from. All the diversity quotas and weird fukal theories are created by them. And so being able to par the talking points of academia with an added Hollywood shine was all she needed to become even more out of touch.
But at least at university she could have retreated from things and carved out her own identity. But instead the pull of Hollywood was even greater. After the huge success of the Potter films, Emma realized truly what mattered more. It wasn’t about academia and working like a normal person. It was all about fame and money and being able to say whatever you want whenever you want.
So Emma tried to then take back control of her career by appearing in other movies. However, just like some of the other Harry Potter child stars, it didn’t go to plan. When she suddenly had to compete with other actresses and deal with the real world of competition, she couldn’t handle it as well.
In her recent appearances on the J Shetty podcast, she went into more detail. Emma talks about how painful it was to learn that all of her colleagues weren’t just there to make friends. I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that we were the people I worked with were going to be my family and that we were going to be lifelong friends.
I came to work looking for friendship. And that was a very painful experience for me outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood. Like bonebreakingly painful. Lots of them hadn’t had their massive break yet. They weren’t handed their dream role when they were barely 10 years old.
The difference was they had gone to LA, gone into Hollywood trying to prove they had what it takes to the world. Emma, on the other hand, had already been to the top. She was trying to prove to herself that she actually just belonged there. That’s why today she talks negatively about the only real character trait in Hollywood, ambition.
But it began years before that. At first, she was excited to finally separate herself from Hermione and build her own identity, as she said in this interview when she was only in her early 20s. It’s been a scary few years for me. I I spent, you know, over a decade doing the same thing and playing the same part. And to know that the new work I’m doing is is being appreciated and supported is just is really nice that I have I have this vote of confidence.
It didn’t go so well, though. Middling film performances and dropping out of university meant that both of her paths ended up going nowhere. At the age of 25, she described being jealous of people with normal lives. Hollywood and being a child star had eroded her identity, which is completely understandable.
Quote, “I felt so inadequate because I just didn’t have answers yet. I had so many friends who had a clear sense of self. I envied those girls because I was so unsure of myself. So with no real identity, a huge amount of privilege growing up, whilst also not getting the same attention she was used to with the Harry Potter movies.
And so it was at this point that the inevitable happened. She dove straight into celebrity activism. If she couldn’t compete on stage or in front of the camera, it provided a way for her to stay relevant. Meanwhile, it helped her reassert her own identity by buying into the Hollywood group thing of this time. At first, the charity work started out fairly small, and at this point, it was all beneficial to society.
It was great stuff. In 2012, for example, she became the ambassador for a charity called Campfed International, where they operate programs in developing African countries focusing on education for girls and young women. By talking about this to other elites and by making public speeches and posts about it, you can be sure she did lots of good work for lots of different underprivileged people.
and she could have stuck to this, but instead she went down the path that so many other Hollywood celebrities have gone down since. And it all went so horribly wrong when she was named as a UN woman goodwill ambassador. And there she would give a speech where she outlined the beginning of a new movement, the He for She campaign. Today we are launching a campaign called He for She.
I am reaching out to you because we need your help. The speech was trit, calling on normal men around the world to fight for women’s rights. And newspapers, Hollywood organizations, and other end groups showered her with praise and awards for it. But like so many of these speeches today, it’s really hard to figure out what it even accomplished.
Instead of doing real good work or appealing to people with power and influence, she was placing the emphasis for making a difference on regular people. At the same time, though, she was being the opposite of inclusive to people just as famous as she was. In 2014, that exact same year, she gave a UN speech on feminism.
She questioned Beyonce’s music video, saying, “On the one hand, she is putting herself in a category of a feminist. This very strong woman, but then the camera, it felt very male. Such a male voyeristic experience of her.” In 2017, the words came back to bite when she appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in an incredibly revealing top, which wouldn’t be a problem except for the fact it was exactly what she’d criticized others for.
But there she was indulging in exactly the same promotional tactics. Then she followed things up by giving this interview. It’s hypocritical, whichever side of the debate you stand on. Maybe she’d just grown up as a person during this time, but looking back on it today, and that really seems unlikely. It’s a sign that she was just following what everyone else was saying rather than actually forming her own opinions.
Also around this time, as the culture war was heating up, when JK Rowling also came into problems, it began slowly at first, as it was just based on a tweet she had accidentally liked in 2018. She quickly apologized, saying it was an accident, but it was enough for people to begin a campaign of threats and harassment that still continues to this day.
It didn’t matter that she had donated to the UK’s Labor Party for years, led an open letter supporting refugee rights in 2015, and for most of the 2010s, people on social media were calling her a filthy liberal. Even in her later essays about trans rights, she denounces Trump and right-wing governments. She was hated on by almost every right-wing commentator at the time and was a darling of the very same liberal elites as Emma.
Both Emma Watson and JK Rowling were some of the biggest voices on feminism and in promoting the mainstream liberal narrative at the time of this culture war. But getting hate in 2017 after all of this just for liking a tweet by accident definitely pushed her towards her future viewpoints. It didn’t matter that both Emma Watson and JK Rowling had been absorbed into the culture war by this point as they were both on the very same side.
But soon future events would only drive them further and further apart. Over the next 2 years, she became more set in her beliefs. She started slowly moving away from the liberal elitism that she had enveloped. Instead of always paring the current mainstream narrative, doing whatever she thought she was supposed to say by the elites, she was now beginning to see the true reality of the situation.
And her views weren’t really all that extreme compared to the average persons. If you ask most people over 50, they’ll probably have similar views to her on trans rights. That being that they shouldn’t infringe on the rights of others. In fact, in the UK at least, people have become more skeptical in recent years.
Emma Watson, on the other hand, did what most celebrities did and said the right words without ever really meaning anything. In a tweet from 2020, partly in response to JK Rowling, she said this. It’s a nice sentiment, of course, but it didn’t actually deal with any of the issues that Rowling was concerned about. What did she think about women only spaces or about how trans women could potentially make these spaces unsafe for some women? This was a feminist narrative at the time, which is why it revealed a lot.
Suddenly, Emma was going to denounce the person that had made her entire life. Even though both were on the exact same side and were both massive feminists in the culture war, it made it clear that her statement was designed to act as social proof to give the impression she’s down with the cause while not actually risking anything.
Throwing Rowling under the bus as soon as Rowling wasn’t useful to her anymore was a slick strategy to improve her social look in the liberal elite. Never mind the fact that Rowling had made her who she was. And today you can still see how naive Emma is in her interviews. She painfully attempts to sound normal, but you can tell she’s never really experienced what normaly is.
Towards the start of their conversation, she asks this and that like anything can be done is um such important energy. There’s so much dystopian fiction at the moment and dystopian movies. So dark. It’s so dark and I’m just like what happened to thinking about the utopia? Her personal world looks so positive that she doesn’t understand the reality that regular people have to deal with.
This is why her version of celebrity activism hit a dead end in the late 2010s. As the culture was slowly eroded as the world got worse, people just realized that all of the celebrity virtue signaling never really had any impact or meaning behind the words. In fact, it often had the opposite effect.
People saw the rich and powerful getting richer and more powerful while Hollywood seemed to blame regular people for not ending the evils of the world. When Ricky Jves gave his famous Golden Globe speech in 2019, it summed up what a lot of people had been feeling. Celebrities lecturing people what to do and believe was like oil companies blaming regular people for climate change because they weren’t doing enough recycling.
The speech opened the floodgates and public opinion soon began to shift. So, if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a a platform to make a political speech, right? You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.
Soon later awards ceremonies didn’t have nearly as many political speeches or pleas for action. Any videos of celebrities coming together for some activist cause was completely clowned on on social media. People had their entire reputations ruined because of the virtue signaling. Hollywood movies were now bombing because people didn’t want to support this nonsense.
In the last few years, the culture war has slowly eroded as people began to see through all of the nonsense. But to rewind back to the 2010s, Emma Watson’s film career had pretty much vanished. In The Circle, critics called her performance blank. In other films like Regression, she was equally uninspired.
Often, critics would point out that most of her acting came from her eyebrows, something she never really grew out of. It mirrored the surface level content of her activism. She never truly got across the authenticity of the characters she played. She was still a beloved entertainer to millions of people, but it didn’t mean she could act.
middling results in her acting work came along with an increasingly poor public perception. She just kept getting caught up in controversies off the set even while she toured the globe giving lectures on various social issues. When the Panama Papers leaked, for example, she was involved as one of the highest profile people to get implicated.
The massive leak showed us evidence that elites from across the world had massive amounts of wealth and assets hiding in offshore accounts. and Emma Watson, who had previously campaigned against global poverty, was now named in the documents. It all left her only able to do one job, making companies look good through her empty words.
Emma Watson used her old reputation and words to spend some time spearheading campaigns look like corporations are being ethical and sustainable. She got a big salary and some exposure. The brands got to borrow her good public image and everyone was happy. Except, of course, for all the workers actually stitching the clothes. Today she still does promotional work.
Just a couple of years ago, she was happy to make a YouTube video for Vogue making lots of different cocktails. It happily coincided with the launch of her own gym brand, an offshoot of her father’s wine business. This kept her in the public eye while not actually risking anything or really adding anything to society.
In a way, she was canceled by her lack of real opinions and beliefs. She had just become a mouthpiece for a corporate ideology which was losing followers every single day. JK Rowling on the other hand had almost the complete opposite path during this time. For most of her life in the public eye, her feminist views match what people were socially expected to believe in high society.
But the same life experiences that forged her beliefs also put her at odds with the general consensus. When her liberal views clashed with the corporate mainstream liberal narrative, she doubled down. Whether you agree or disagree with her position, you can’t deny its authenticity and where her perspective comes from.
But for her deviation from the party line, she was labeled as a tough, someone who preached hate. All while she received very real hate and so many threats from people who were once her diehard fans. In fact, it completely tanked her reputation to most people. She was suddenly denounced by all of the Harry Potter actors.
Even the producers, all the people that made the Harry Potter movies completely moved away from her, sidelining her into irrelevancy. People didn’t need to do research or look into what she actually believed. Now she just had a vibe that she was hateful or someone to be banished for her views. People started boycotting her prequels to Harry Potter.
Major celebrities all distanced themselves having just been close and appreciative of her just a few years before. Every major thing to do with Harry Potter now didn’t have JK Rowling involved even though she had created all of it. But as time went on, it became clear that then most people just didn’t really care anymore.
We saw earlier from Kier Kny’s interviews that lots of celebrities would rather just not talk about this stuff anymore and just don’t really care. Lots of the public were the same and have been the same the entire time. When Hogwarts Legacy, a Harry Potterbased AAA game was announced, the cause for a boycott seemed incredibly loud online.
Lots of reviewers refused to play it. People thought it might bong completely. Then it turned out to be a pretty good game. Loads of people just played it anyway. And it went on to be a huge success, pulling in over a billion dollars in revenue. It was in this changing environment that the last nail in the coffin for hollow celebrity activism was hammered in.
In 2022, Watson famously gave a speech at the BAFTA awards saying, “I’m here for all the witches. I’m here for all of the witches.” Today, it’s debated whether it was really a vile message of support and defiance of Rowling or just a reference to something said earlier that night. Regardless, that wasn’t the part that ruined their relationship.
Instead, it was what happened next that sealed it. Quote, “Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence, I’m so sorry for what you’re going through.” In brackets, “She has my number.” This was back when the death, rape, and torture threats against me were at their peak at a time when my personal security measures had to be tightened considerably, and I was constantly worried for my family’s safety.
In the eyes of many, Watson had both publicly taken a stand against Rowling while also privately trying to stay in her good books. Still though, Rowling remained silent on the matter. It was only recently in that podcast where Emma Watson said that she both loved and cherished Rowling while also highlighting their disagreement.
It was peak Hollywood moral groundstanding that was what prompted Rowling’s famous tweets. For a former child star, Emma is remarkably stable. It’s clear she’s done a lot of good for the world, but if she had focused more on real charity work instead of falling into the Hollywood propaganda machine, she could have done so much more.
Today, other celebrities can learn a lot from her story. As long as they follow Ricky Jvesa’s advice and stay out of real world problems, they’ll probably be fine.
