“Harry Potter” star Katie Leung has opened up on the racist attacks she had to deal with over her casting as Cho Chang in the …
“Harry Potter” star Katie Leung has opened up on the racist attacks she had to deal with over her casting as Cho Chang in the film franchise. The 33-year-old Scottish-born actress, who played a love interest of Daniel Radcliffe’s Harry Potter, began experiencing racist bullying even before she started filming, Leung said in a “ Chinese Chippy Girl ” podcast episode last Monday, March 8. Shortly after being cast as Cho Chang, Leung said some journalists and paparazzi started hounding her and some even managed to secretly take her photo, which got printed without her permission. “It had got to the papers and then someone secretly took a photo of me. I just broke down. I just started crying,” recalled Leung, who was still a teenager in high school at the time.
