Jordan Moreau Actor Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter franchise, opened up about experiencing racist attacks from fans online while filming the fantasy series.
She said publicists told her to deny what was happening if she were ever asked.Leung recalled what happened on an episode of the podcast “Chinese Chippy Girl” released on Monday.
She says after her casting in 2005’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was announced, she started seeing racist messages from fans online.“I was Googling myself at one point, and I was on this website, which was kind of dedicated to the Harry Potter fandom.
I remember reading all the comments. And, yeah, it was a lot of racist shit,” she says. Leung, who was born in Scotland and is.
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