(AllHipHop News) Beauty and the Beast actress Emma Watson is addressing the critics that took issue with her 2014 comments about Beyoncé.
Some people began questioning if Watson was a true feminist because of her braless photo for Vanity Fair.
“Feminism is about giving women choice, feminism is not a stick which to beat other women with. It’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality. I really don’t know what my t### have to do with it,” responded Watson to the critiques.
However, internet sleuths pulled up the 2014 Wonderland Magazine article where Watson discussed Beyoncé’s self-titled 2013 album.
They used her own comments in an attempt to point out her hypocrisy on feminism.
“I’m quite nervous to bring it up because I still haven’t really formulated my own ideas about it,” Watson said at the time.
She added, “On the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, this very strong woman — and she has that beautiful speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in one of her songs — but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her and I just wondered if you had thoughts about that?”
After the backlash from the Bey Hive and others, Watson posted a screenshot on social media from the story which included more of her statements about the Grammy-winning singer.
The Harry Potter star’s Twitter post highlighted sections that appear to be supportive of Beyoncé as a feminist.
Watson stated:
[Beyoncé] does make it clear that she is performing for him. And the fact she wasn’t doing it for a label, she was doing it for herself and the control that she has directing it and putting it out there, I agree is making her sexuality empowering because it is her choice
The second is that I would say you do get sense of, ‘I can be a feminist, I can be an intellectual, I can be all these other things, but I can also be ok with my femininity and being pretty and with all these things that I thought might negate my message or negate what I am about’. That really is the most interesting thing about the album. It is so inclusive and puts feminism and femininity and female empowerment on such a broad spectrum.
This is the part of my 2014 interview with Tavi where we talked about Beyoncé. My words are in bold. pic.twitter.com/Y8vumOeyDT
— Emma Watson (@EmmaWatson) March 7, 2017