Johnny Depp for me too. Liked him early on but then every role he played seemed to be just another variation on "quirky, socially awkward weird guy." One in a while he seems to be able to play just a "person" but I tire of his quirky roles.
Author JK Rowling.
I used to be a grownup Harry Potter fan, read all the books, saw all the movies on original theater run, etc, and I thought JK was the cat's pajamas. But lately now that she's so vociferous on social media, I find that I cannot stand her mean, nasty personality. She's a viper, a shrew. I'm not even a fan of some of the people she's shrewish about but I don't like her conduct, particularly toward fans. She's said some absolutely terrible, ugly things to people who made her rich, just because of political differences, and to me, that's not acceptable. Those people put her where she is today.
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Catbookss (13664)
6 years ago
Ditto that on Johnny Depp. He was fun doing the first few quirky, socially awkward, weird characters, but it became very tiresome after that.
I don't want to know this about JK Rowling! To me she's just the author of the Harry Potter books/movies, which were fun. I'm going to pretend I didn't read this π
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Ryker (194)
6 years ago
The complaints about "she attacks people just because of their political opinions" comes across as "she disagreed with people's opinions and she is therefore a bad person." Freedom of speech is a two-way street.
Reminds me of someone attacking Jason Isaacs for voicing his (liberal) political opinion and criticizing Trump. The fan said people don't want political views from actors and that Isaacs' words are alienating the fan base. Isaacs then went through the fan's tweets and saw that he used the white genocide hashtag a bunch of times, and called him out on it. Now, I am not saying the dude complaining about JK is racist, just saying his logic reminded me of this incident (and others like it).
https://twitter.com/jasonsfolly/status/935135101611945984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E935135101611945984&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoviegrapevine.com%2F2017%2F11%2F28%2Fjason-isaacs-and-free-speech%2F
Point being: There are people who take it personal if an actor has different political opinions (or isn't racist like they are) and they will often not admit this, and will hide their viewpoint with other language or excuses.
The belief that Rowling must agree with fans definitely reeks of entitlement as well.
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