Katie Leung Details The Hateful Backlash She Received After Being Cast In ‘Harry Potter’: ‘It Was A Lot Of Racist S**t’
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etcanada.comKatie Leung will forever be Cho Chang. The actress, 33, who starred as the Ravenclaw love interest to Harry Potter in several of the franchise’s hit films, looks back at the breakout role, admitting the excitement for joining the cast was overshadowed by some online hate.
Leung officially joined the “Harry Potter” cast in 2005’s “Goblet Of Fire”. RELATED: Rupert Grint Says 10 Years Of Making ‘Harry Potter’ Movies Sometimes ‘Felt Quite Suffocating’ Detailing her experience on the “Chinese Chippy Girl” podcast, Leung, who is of Chinese descent, says the casting news was leaked in the U.K.
tabloids and soon gathered a lot of attention online, including on Harry Potter fan sites. “I was like, Googling myself at one point and I was on this
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