In a new interview with The NY Times, Emma Watson talks about The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Guillermo del Toro’s Beauty and the Beast and more!  The interview also includes a new photoshoot with the actress.  In the interview Emma confirms that shooting for Beauty and the Beast will begin next summer,

I went to him [del Toro] and said Warner Brothers have given me the script for ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ but the only way I’d really want to do it is if you did it. And then miraculously he said, ‘Oh, funnily enough ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is my favorite fairy tale, I can’t let anyone else do this, I’ll start putting a team together.’ ”

She also discusses having to speak in an American accent for The Perks of Being a Wallflower, out September 21st.

“My grandma said — when I was really young and I’d sing along to the radio — why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists. And that was something Steve said to me as well: try singing the lines in an American accent. That kind of opened me up. Then I worked with a dialogue coach and I just put in the time to really, really listen and just go over it and over it and over it until I could do it without thinking about it too hard. And I just knew it was really important.”

Speaking of why she waited so long to do films other than Potter she states:

“I think at first I didn’t because I was always either studying or filming, I didn’t have time to go off and do other films or other things to sort of show people that, Oh, she is not just Hermione, she is an actress and she can go and do these other parts and roles. . . . I didn’t, because I was so focused on, you know, on my GCSEs and on my AS and on my A-levels and then getting in to university and then whatever, I didn’t really have time to do any of that.”

The rest of the interview includes Emma talking about schoool (Brown and Oxford) as well as her parent’s and their involvement in her career and being recognized in public, read the full interview over at The NY Times!