Actress Miriam Margoyles, who was the cast member for the Harry Potter franchise’s Herbology teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, has declared in a recent interview that she would rather have had Boris Johnson dead when he caught the coronavirus back in April.
The 78-year-old veteran actress sparked numerous varying responses after an interview at what some media outlets have described as “a rant” on Channel 4 comedy chat show The Last Leg on Friday night. This was a reactionary remark coming from 10 Downing Street that the doctors were stationed to give the death certificate in case Boris Johnson lost the battle against the pandemic. Margoyles apparently went on with the critique of the governmental response to COVID-19: : ‘I wanted him to die. Appallingly, of course, appallingly. It’s a disgrace, it’s a scandal. It’s a public scandal.’
‘I mean, I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die. I wanted him to die. Then I thought that will reflect badly on me and I don’t want to be the sort of person that wants people to die.
’ After admitting to her change of heart, Miriam continued with another savage remark about the prime minister. She said: ‘So then I wanted him to get better, which he did do, he did get better. But he didn’t get better as a human being.
And I really would prefer that. So, we’re in the s**t, basically, here.’
Twitter reacted sharply: ‘Memo to Miriam Margolyes: If your sense of morality is not drastically superior to Myra Hindley’s, you probably wanna buck your ideas up a bit.
’ ‘Well I think Miriam Margolyes might of just about got herself cancelled on the last leg there,’ added another. One infuriated viewer wrote: ‘I thought that #MiriamMargolyes was dead. Turns out that it’s only her brain.
’ Another Twitter-user insisted: ‘Miriam Margolyes speaks for a handful of vile, pitiable, sub-human Remainer lefties. ‘I despise this sad old hater, she doesn’t share true British values, despite what her passport says.
I hope that Karma gets each and every one of them, she is already dead to me.’
Margolyes has been starred in the movies Call the Midwife and The Age of Innocence, as well as being Professor Sprout in the film series based on JK Rowling’s novels.
Known for her rather candid method of speeches, she once said in an interview with the Guardian in 2014, she said: ‘I would have to admit that I’m daring in my comments. I do say things possibly other people don’t say. So I shouldn’t be too surprised when they are picked up.
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