Keira Knightley said she “was not aware” of the call for a Harry Potter boycott over J.K.Rowling’s anti-trans statements prior to her joining the voice cast for Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio Editions .
In an interview with Decider , the interviewer noted that the actress is voicing Professor Umbridge for Pottermore Publishing and Audible’s Harry Potter audiobooks and asked if she knew that some fans have called for a Harry Potter boycott.
“I was not aware of that, no. I’m very sorry,” Knightley told the outlet. “You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”
Rowling has for years approved of or