Emma Watson, who has played Hermione Granger for the last decade, has revealed some of the perks and drawbacks of filming 8 Harry Potter movies.
Emma told the Daily Mirror that working so much for so long has given her more experience in acting than any school could:
“Watching the new film I feel I’ve really learned something in these 10 years. For the first time I really felt like an actress and I have an idea of what I can be as an actress. And that is very exciting. I’ve worked with animals, special effects, I’ve done some serious stunts and I’ve worked with some of the best actors and actresses in the world. I couldn’t have had better training. I feel I’ve graduated from the most difficult, hard-core film school of all time and I can’t believe how lucky I’ve been. Now I’m ambitious to use what I’ve learned to do good work.”
However Emma also talked about the things she wasn’t such a fan of:
“Not a single second of the day was in my power. I was told what time I’d get picked up, what time I could eat and when I could go to the bathroom. I have spent more of my life being someone else than I have being myself.”
She also says she hates looking back at the first couple of films:
“I look back at the early films and see that little girl — and I know it’s me but it seems like a different person. It’s embarrassing to see myself go through the awkward stages of growing up — my hair was just enormous! So much time has passed and so much has happened that it seems I don’t know her. But it’s interesting to see how the character has evolved and how much I have changed.”
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Emma spent 2 years at Brown University before saying goodbye to focus on her career:
“I was commuting back and forth between the U.S. and the U.K. trying to fulfill my commitment to this enormous Harry Potter franchise and it just wasn’t feasible,” she said. “I’m only human. I wasn’t getting the best out of either my studies or the filming, so I decided to give a proper goodbye to 10 years of work and resume my studies later.”
We can’t wait to see what Emma does next – now that the Potter films are finished. Did we just say that? The Potter films are finished!?
What would you like to see Emma do next? More movies? TV? Broadway!?
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