In a new interview, with the Independent, Emma Watson discusses her role as Lancôme’s “Rouge in Love” lipstick range girl, fashion choices, life post Potter and more! A few snippets from the interview may be read below, you can read the full thing here.
“It’s just given me time, really,” she says. “People use their time at university and at school, which I didn’t have, to really think about and figure out what they want to do, and who they want to be. And it’s been so nice not to be pushed around or pushed into doing things.”
In fact, Watson has carefully peppered her career with choices that pertain very closely to her own interests, putting her name to a collection for eco-fashion range People Tree as well as partnering with designer Alberta Ferretti to work on a “Pure Threads” ethical line too. Her next film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, will be released later this year. She paints and reads books. She has, she tells me guiltily, a university essay to hand in the next day, not yet finished.
“Doing the Potters was such a bubble,” she says, “and then having to figure out how to function in the real world has been a challenge. But it’s been the small successes for me: I know how to use a washing machine, I can cook. It’s worth it to me not to feel disconnected from everything, feeling like I’m in touch with people who do other things than acting or being in the entertainment industry.”
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There was a time, though, towards the end of the Potter franchise, when Watson came of age and began appearing on front rows at shows such as Chanel and Burberry, in whose billboard campaigns she featured along with her younger brother in 2009. “I was fully game for ‘Throw me in this, throw me in that,'” she admits, “but I’d like to develop my own sense of style, and dress for myself. The press destroyed me over this Rodarte dress I once wore – it was bright blue with chains on it.” She laughs and shivers slightly. “I loved it. And I wore a leather Christopher Kane dress with embroidered flowers all over it. It wasn’t that crazy, but at the time…”
She seems to have ridden out the post-Potter publicity admirably, though. “Fashion gave me a chance to feel like I was something outside of Potter,” she explains, of her appearances front row at shows such as Chanel and Burberry. “I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.”
The Harry Potter books, Deathly Hallows: Part II, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have been nominated for Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Awards! Voting for the awards opens on February 24th, we will post a reminder link on that date. The awards will be presented on March 31st and you can watch on nickelodeon at 8pm/7pmc! The nominations are as follows:
Scholastic has released their list of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone made the top 10, coming in 6th place. Also on the list are Charlotte’s Web (#1), The Very Hungry Caterpillar (#12), The Mitten (#31), The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (#43) and so many more amazing children’s stories!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Written by J. K. Rowling and Illustrated by Mary GrandPré
Ages 11+
From Scholastic Kid’s and Family Reading Report research, we learned that one book can make a difference and motivate kids to read more challenging material than ever before. Harry Potter was, and is, that important first book for many readers.
—Francie Alexander
Harry Potter fan Alex Mangnall and a bunch of his friends have remade the entire Harry Potter series in 60 seconds for Virgin Mobile’s Fake Film Festival in Vancouver, BC!!! If you like the video make sure to head over to this page of Virgin Radio’s website, scroll to the bottom and vote for them to win the grand prize!
Potter fans rejoice, ABC Family is having yet another Harry Potter weekend starting this Friday February 17th! They will be airing Prisoner of Azkaban through Half-Blood Prince, as well as some brand new interviews with the cast and footage! You can watch the commercial for the weekend here with a look at some of the new interviews they will feature. The schedule is as follows:
Saturday February 18th
1:30pm/12:30c – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
4:30pm/3:30c – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8pm/7:00c – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Sunday February 19th
2pm/1:00c – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
5:30pm/4:30c – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
8:30pm/7:30c – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
As we’ve been reporting for many months, Guillermo del Toro is looking to make his own version of Beauty and the Beast. Today Variety reports that the movie is a go and Emma Watson is in final talks to star as Belle in the film! We will post as soon as any new information is revealed. According to the article:
Guillermo del Toro will direct “Beast,” a new take on the “Beauty and the Beast” tale that Warners has tapped “Bridget Jones’s Diary” scribe Andrew Davies to write. WB’s “Harry Potter” star Emma Watson is in final negotiations to topline the period pic. Del Toro was originally on board just to produce.
DiNovi Pictures’ Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan will produce with del Toro, who plans to write a treatment from which Davies will work. Del Toro, who’s currently filming “Pacific Rim” for WB and Legendary Pictures, is credited as a co-writer on both of WB’s upcoming “Hobbit” movies.
