[Marsh.]

The Hermione backlash was utterly absurd. All she was trying to illustrate was that Hermione did not NEED to be white. She could have been black from the start and it would not change her character or the story in the slightest. So, therefore limiting the actresses considered to play her on stage just because Emma Watson is white is ludicrous. The stage play takes many liberties with the source material but it's a stage adaptation, it's neither the novels nor the films.

But that's probably another instance where no response at all would have been better because the backlash was nonsensical.