'But to be honest I don't think it will end. I think Harry Potter will go on for ever.'
So I've had Emma Watson's official page opened for three days, ever since I looked for inspiration re:writing, and today I decided to actually browse through the pictures (an official page chock-full of pictures, what has the world gone to?!) (of course you can't just right-click and save them, but the source file will give you all the links you need), and started reading articles, something which I almost never do (I've had a Première with Natalie Portman on the cover sitting on my bedside table for almost six months and I still haven't unwrapped it).
And once I started reading I just couldn't stop. I don't know what I expected her to be, since I've never watched interviews or anything of the like, but considering the HP hype and how young she still is, I wouldn't have been too surprised if she'd turned out to be a little bit of an air-head or a party fiend.
On the contrary, she's mature, endearing, funny, and down-to-earth.
After a while I realized the two interviews I'd been reading had been made...three years ago, and thought that maybe things had changed between then and now. You never know, teenagers change so fast and famous teenagers change faste of all. So I tried to find the latest interviews she'd given, and lo, she's actually in this month's Vanity Fair UK issue (unless it's raining cats and dogs I'm definitely walking all the way to WHSmith tomorrow to see if they still/already have it).
Well, she hasn't changed. *beams* And the interviewers use the same words as three years ago. "Polite", "charming", "self-deprecating", "shy", "delightful". Even accounting for the glossing over of interviewers, that's still a really nice picture. It warms my heart, to see that some teen actors can escape unscathed from the grips of Hollywood. She's going to college, too, which of course reminds me of lovely Natalie (and Jodie Foster, incidentally), and while I'd be delighted to see her grown-up in something which doesn't involve magic wands and sorting hats, it's nice that she's contemplating living a "normal" life. Although, as she says, she wonders if people would think she had failed, if she decided to turn her back on acting.
Highlights of the handful of interviews I've read, because it's just too adorable (and I lovelovelove what she says about sport).
'I remember after the first ten minutes of the first film my dad turning to me and saying "Emma darling, I really think you should breathe now."'
'I am always texting Dan and Rupert when we are not working. And we are always swapping girl and boy advice when we're together. It's quite funny -- I am like, "Oh, I have got this text from a boy, what on earth do I say? What does this translate to in boy language? I don't understand," and they will be like, "Well, this means this." I have got my own personal on-set boy text translators,' she says with a laugh.
When asked, in jest, if she has a glass of wine with her favourite food, she points out that having spent the fist five years of her life in France she had her first watered-down wine when she was about three. When I suggest that such an idea won't go down well in America - where the alcohol age limit is 21 - she is not afraid to offer a forthright opinion. 'What is that about? You can go to war for your country but you can't have a beer to celebrate? It's mad. I much prefer the European way in which alcohol is naturally introduced into family life.'
One thing that annoys her about her female contemporaries is their reluctance - from vanity, she thinks - to continue with sport in their late teens. 'I am such a feminist on this. It drives me nuts when friends say "We can't continue because sport gives you muscles and it's so unattractive, and you get sweaty." For some reason girls seem to think it is unfeminine and they worry about being "pretty". But I feel the most pretty when I come off the pitch after a hockey game and I have got pink cheeks and bright eyes. Sport really makes me feel good about myself.'
And having to run down the hallway in the Hogwarts dining hall and fling her arms around Harry was simply petrifying. 'You cannot imagine as a nine-year-old girl how embarrassing it is even just to hug a boy. You just don't do that.'
(Unlike Hermione, who has a crush on Ron, Emma never had a crush on Rupert, and instead fell for Tom Felton, who plays Malfoy, and would eagerly check her call sheet every morning to see if they had scenes together. But, hey, this was real life. What teenage girl doesn't like the blond bad boy more than the goofy redhead?)
♥♥♥
Now it makes me want to search for Daniel/Rupert interviews.
And once I started reading I just couldn't stop. I don't know what I expected her to be, since I've never watched interviews or anything of the like, but considering the HP hype and how young she still is, I wouldn't have been too surprised if she'd turned out to be a little bit of an air-head or a party fiend.
On the contrary, she's mature, endearing, funny, and down-to-earth.
After a while I realized the two interviews I'd been reading had been made...three years ago, and thought that maybe things had changed between then and now. You never know, teenagers change so fast and famous teenagers change faste of all. So I tried to find the latest interviews she'd given, and lo, she's actually in this month's Vanity Fair UK issue (unless it's raining cats and dogs I'm definitely walking all the way to WHSmith tomorrow to see if they still/already have it).
Well, she hasn't changed. *beams* And the interviewers use the same words as three years ago. "Polite", "charming", "self-deprecating", "shy", "delightful". Even accounting for the glossing over of interviewers, that's still a really nice picture. It warms my heart, to see that some teen actors can escape unscathed from the grips of Hollywood. She's going to college, too, which of course reminds me of lovely Natalie (and Jodie Foster, incidentally), and while I'd be delighted to see her grown-up in something which doesn't involve magic wands and sorting hats, it's nice that she's contemplating living a "normal" life. Although, as she says, she wonders if people would think she had failed, if she decided to turn her back on acting.
Highlights of the handful of interviews I've read, because it's just too adorable (and I lovelovelove what she says about sport).
'I remember after the first ten minutes of the first film my dad turning to me and saying "Emma darling, I really think you should breathe now."'
'I am always texting Dan and Rupert when we are not working. And we are always swapping girl and boy advice when we're together. It's quite funny -- I am like, "Oh, I have got this text from a boy, what on earth do I say? What does this translate to in boy language? I don't understand," and they will be like, "Well, this means this." I have got my own personal on-set boy text translators,' she says with a laugh.
When asked, in jest, if she has a glass of wine with her favourite food, she points out that having spent the fist five years of her life in France she had her first watered-down wine when she was about three. When I suggest that such an idea won't go down well in America - where the alcohol age limit is 21 - she is not afraid to offer a forthright opinion. 'What is that about? You can go to war for your country but you can't have a beer to celebrate? It's mad. I much prefer the European way in which alcohol is naturally introduced into family life.'
One thing that annoys her about her female contemporaries is their reluctance - from vanity, she thinks - to continue with sport in their late teens. 'I am such a feminist on this. It drives me nuts when friends say "We can't continue because sport gives you muscles and it's so unattractive, and you get sweaty." For some reason girls seem to think it is unfeminine and they worry about being "pretty". But I feel the most pretty when I come off the pitch after a hockey game and I have got pink cheeks and bright eyes. Sport really makes me feel good about myself.'
And having to run down the hallway in the Hogwarts dining hall and fling her arms around Harry was simply petrifying. 'You cannot imagine as a nine-year-old girl how embarrassing it is even just to hug a boy. You just don't do that.'
(Unlike Hermione, who has a crush on Ron, Emma never had a crush on Rupert, and instead fell for Tom Felton, who plays Malfoy, and would eagerly check her call sheet every morning to see if they had scenes together. But, hey, this was real life. What teenage girl doesn't like the blond bad boy more than the goofy redhead?)
♥♥♥
Now it makes me want to search for Daniel/Rupert interviews.