Jessie Cave, whose breakout role was in the “Harry Potter” movie series as Lavender Brown, recently disclosed that she was excluded from a Harry Potter convention because of her presence on OnlyFans.
The actress, who featured in three Wizarding World movies, shared the experience in a frank post on her eponymous Substack, describing the exclusion as “baffling.”
I discovered I didn’t get booked for a ‘Harry Potter’ con recently, since I’m currently on OnlyFans now,” Cave detailed. “They told me it was because it’s a ‘family show and OnlyFans is partnered with porn.’ I was confused about this since some of the actors who do cons (most actors, really) have done television and movies where they’ve had sex scenes and naked scenes. I’m just playing with my hair!
Cave insisted that her OnlyFans page is not necessarily sexual and that her material is much farther from what lots of people may expect. She opened her page sometime in the early part of this year, March, in an Instagram video where she promised “the best quality hair sounds” and “very sensual stuff.” She clarified later on her podcast, Before We Break Up Again, that her OnlyFans revolves around hair fetish content rather than pornography, adding, “fetish doesn’t necessarily mean sexual.”
Even after the bump, Cave specified she has no ill feelings regarding stepping away from the Wizarding World. “I am not disappointed that there won’t be anymore ‘Harry Potter’ conventions,” she stated. “There is going to be a new cast now and it’s a different era. And also, I have done conventions for more than 15 years and have plenty of photos and wizard memorabilia.”
The actress, first seen as Lavender Brown in 2009’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and then again reprising her part in the Deathly Hallows sequels, stated she already feels as though she has had her moment in the franchise limelight. However, she conceded she was surprised at being omitted for the stated reason.
In the same Substack article, Cave also elaborated on why she initially created her OnlyFans account. She explained that financial needs were the main reason, as she had given herself a one-year goal on the site. “My goal? To make the house secure, pay for the arsenic/lead wallpaper, add a new roof etc. My goal? To pay off debt.”. My goal? To empower myself? To show those in the past who have misjudged me that I’m not so sweet? To invest time in something I never invested in before: self-love.
Her choice to utilize OnlyFans, she contended, was a matter of claiming agency over her own career and producing content as she wanted to. While she recognized that perhaps some individuals may view the platform as controversial, she underlined that her content is personal, creative, and innocuous.
Cave’s exclusion is emblematic of continued controversies surrounding OnlyFans, which is stigmatized by its adult content reputation, despite most of its users creating non-sexual content like fitness, music, or in Cave’s case, ASMR videos. She highlighted the hypocrisy of conventions being welcoming to actors who have appeared nude in mainstream movies but banning her for a much less racy creative venture.
The actress has since made peace with the decision, expressing gratitude for her years engaging with Harry Potter fans but also an eagerness to focus on new chapters of her career and personal growth. “I’ve had my time in that world,” she wrote. “Now it’s about moving forward.”
Apart from her work in the Wizarding World, Cave has worked on films like Great Expectations and television series like Black Mirror and Industry. Cave has worked as an actor, comedian, and writer, and remains open to exploring creative endeavors on her own terms.
For Cave, the ban on conventions may be a closing of an era, but it also reflects her determination to forge her own independence in both her work and personal life, even if it means ruffling a few feathers in doing so.
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