As we posted last month, Emma Thompson received a star on the Walk of Fame today.

Oscar-winning English actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, who received the 2,416th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, said she found its location in front of the Pig ‘n Whistle pub particularly fitting. “It’s so appropriate this is outside of a pub,’ Thompson said of her star on Hollywood Boulevard.  “It’s the last thing you step on before you get your first drink and the last thing you step on when you reel out.’

Actor Hugh Laurie, who dated Thompson when both attended England’s University of Cambridge, said her talent is enormous. “She was the most obnoxiously talented person — and still is — that I’ve ever come across,’ said Laurie, star of the Fox Broadcasting medical drama ‘House.’ Everything she did just oozed talent,’ he said. “She said talented things, she wore talented clothes, she rode a talented bicycle, she made talented spaghetti. She is a truly remarkable person, a very good friend, and I could not be prouder.’

Maggie Gyllenhaal, who stars with Thompson in Nanny McPhee Returns, which will be released Aug. 20, said “Emma is undeniably grateful and good. I’ve never seen Emma when she hasn’t given me a present and a present for my daughter,” Gyllenhaal said at the late-morning ceremony.  “She knows the name of every single person on the crew and their children and their wives’ names. She’s cooked me roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, while acting and writing and producing a huge, multimillion-dollar studio movie. This comes through in all of the things she writes and the movies she acts in.’

Thompson, 51, dedicated her star to her late father, Eric Thompson, an actor, writer and director. “He was a wonderful man and a great inspiration to me,’ Thompson said. “He inspired me to write for children without writing for children.’ Thompson recalled him taking her to the Walk of Fame when he was in Los Angeles in the 1970s to direct a production of “The Norman Conquests’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. “We looked at all the stars and I remember being really fascinated by this, thinking, `What a lovely thing to do, put people’s names in the pavement where everyone walks about all the time,’ Thompson said. “I was thrilled by that.’

In another interview segment with Entertainment Weekly, Emma Watson talks more about her drastic hair change.

When filming ended, Watson’s hair was finally her own. She could have cut her hair immediately, but she decided to wait a bit. “It didn’t feel right then; I needed a break,” she tells EW.com exclusively. During the cut, designed by New York stylist Rodney Cutler of Cutler Salon, Watson never had a moment of panic or remorse. “It was weird. My hairdresser was like, ‘When are you going to freak out?’ Most people cry or go into shock,’” she says. “But I was very calm. I knew it was the right thing.” It helped, she said, that she didn’t tell anyone she was getting the drastic ‘do. “I went to the salon alone and I left alone,” she says. “I knew everyone was going to have an opinion, and I couldn’t deal with it. I have to get myself into a good place to deal with people saying things like, ‘It’s terrible! She looks like a boy!’” Says the actress, laughing, “My dad already said that to me, actually. He said, ‘You’re not Audrey Hepburn yet, darling.’”

Ouch. Thanks, Dad? “He’s like that. I think the best I’ve ever had out of him was before a premiere when he said I  ‘scrub up alright.’ When people ask me how I keep myself grounded, there’s the answer.”

In the September issue of Total Film magazine, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and how different is is from the other films.  Director David Yates also weighs in on the issue.  Read the interviews below:

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Emma Watson recently discussed her new haircut in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

She’s not Hermione anymore. Emma Watson — the 20-year-old actress who has portrayed Harry Potter’s studious BFF, Hermione Granger, in six films over the past decade — has shorn off her character’s long tresses in favor of a short pixie haircut. “Oh my God, it was the most liberating thing!” she tells EW.com. “The stylist just grabbed the back of my hair and took a whole ponytail of hair out. It felt amazing. I love it.” The chic, gamine cut, created by New York stylist Rodney Cutler of Cutler Salon and seen in this exclusive Polaroid from EW’s upcoming Fall Movie Preview issue, might not seem like a huge deal to most 20-year-olds. But Watson has had to sport essentially the same hairstyle for ten years while she played Hermione. “I missed all that experimentation that most teenagers go through,” she says. “I’ve wanted to do this since I was about 16, so as soon as I had the chance I was like, ‘Right. This is it.’” Watson, who’s about to enter her sophomore year at Brown University, finished shooting the final two Potter movies this summer

Also, Emma is in New York doing some photoshoots for Deathly Hallows promotion.  The magazines featuring her will likely be coming out in November for the release of Deathly Hallows.  One cover we know about so far is Marie Claire magazine via their Twitter. (luckily, I just got a free years subscription to the magazine so we’ll have scans before the magazine hits stands)

As of this moment, I don’t know what other magazines Emma will be featured in, but it is safe to assume there will be a few.

The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows video game official website has been updated with the cover of the Part: I box art!  The photo is of Harry running from something and a watermarked image of Voldemort.  You can see photos of the covers in the gallery!

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As many of you might be aware, last night some new candid photos of Emma Watson appeared online showing that the actress drastically changed her hair. I didn’t post those photos because I felt they were invasion of privacy. But now Emma has confirmed via her Twitter that “Yes, I cut my hair off a few days ago! I love it- feels incredible. Hope you like it!”.

This also comes with a new photoshoot photo that you can see below.