Radcliffe offers a very interesting analogy to understand the issue with Depp casting controversy
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe addressed the fan uproar over the casting of Johnny Depp in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Depp was accused of domestic abuse by ex-wife Amber Heard during their whirlwind marriage. The images of Heard's bruised face were plastered over all the media outlets when the divorce procedure was going on.
Potter fans stirred up the controversy about casting Depp to play the main antagonist in the Fantastic Beasts franchise. Author JK Rowling already spoke her part in a statement she released after the public outcry. In the statement, she wrote, "When Johnny Depp was cast as Grindelwald, I thought he’d be wonderful in the role. However, around the time of filming his cameo in the first movie, stories had appeared in the press that deeply concerned me and everyone most closely involved in the franchise."
She revealed that they did consider recasting, "However, the agreements that have been put in place to protect the privacy of two people, both of whom have expressed a desire to get on with their lives, must be respected. 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 wrote.
In a report in Entertainment Weekly, Daniel Radcliffe rather nicely summed up the dilemma of everyone associated with the franchise who are being asked about Depp casting.
Radcliffe noted that he wants to be supportive of the producers who gave him the opportunity to be the boy who lived. But he also said that he understands where the public frustration is coming from.
"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,” he told the magazine.
The weed guy Radcliffe is referring to is Jamie Waylett, who played Hogwarts bully, Vincent Crabbe. He was dropped from the movies after he pleaded guilty to growing 10 marijuana plants in his mother's backyard. He was later arrested for packing a homemade bomb during 2011 London riots
Fantastic Beasts cast or any other actors associated with the Harry Potter franchise have not spoken about the issue.
The movie is set to release on November 16
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