logging onto twitter dot com and this is one of the first trending headlines i see.
like... as someone who has followed katie’s career and of course been drawn to cho chang’s character for the last decade and a half, this isn’t news to me at all. katie got so much hate by fans for just being harry potter’s love interest. imagine how much that hate blew up when the movie version of ootp made her out to be the one that snitched on dumbledore’s army. i’m glad that katie was on a podcast where she felt comfortable enough to openly share her experience and i hope that her doing so is an indication that she hasn’t internalized the abuse and the trash people were writing about and toward her.
anyway, katie leung deserved and still deserves so much better than studios and publicists willing to feed her to the wolves and gaslight her to keep their own image clean! she deserved and still deserves so much better than racist and misogynistic hp fans who also somehow haven’t learned to distinguish a character from the actor!!
(here’s the variety article)
edit: (here’s the link to the podcast episode!)
