The actress that played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter movies, 33-year-old Katie Leung said in a recent podcast that her publicists told her to deny that she was experiencing racist attacks while the movies were being filmed.
On websites for Harry Potter fans, also known as Potterheads people left cruel and racist messages about Leung, a Scottish actress who plays Hogwarts’ only character of Chinese origin. “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 said in a recent episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast. She even found a “hate site” about herself.