Times Online has posted their interview with Emma that I posted about earlier!
Inside, however, I reckon little has changed since a small, determined nine-year-old went to audition. “You wouldn’t believe how much I was compelled to play Hermione. I knew I was right to play her, even when my parents were trying to convince me not to. I made it my life for three or four months, just getting through those auditions.” Now Watson is equally determined to bury acting for three years. With four As at A level, having studied obsessively between takes, she is taking up a place in September to study English and art at a university in yet another undisclosed location. She wants to be a civilian again, “like Jodie Foster when she went to Yale,” says Watson. “And I want to forget about hair and make-up.”
On the Potter set, “it takes an hour to get ready every day. They call us at 7.30am.” Watson leans forward across the trailer’s Formica table to show me the extensions plaited into her backcombed light brown hair to give it Hermione Granger’s messy curls. Plus there are fake scars – “They must have rubbed off – I just took a nap” – and plenty of slap to make her lightly freckled skin matt and witchy. The heavy eyebrows are for real, though.
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