Softly spoken and introspective, the 22-year-old Harry Potter actress has clung to normality by her fingernails. “I won’t lie to you - it’s not been easy,” she smiles. “Celebrity is definitely the hardest part of what I do. But you just have to hope that people look past all that - past the overblown hyper the industry - and see you.”

The Perks of being a Wallflower as her first post-potter project... “It’s not some wild break away from Harry Potter,” She explains from her JFK-bound car in New York. “Because I don’t really want to get away from Harry Potter - I’ve never seen it as shackle. But I knew the second I read the script that I wanted thus film to be seen.”

On her fashion:
“I’ve also rocking some high-waisted denim shorts recently,” she smiles. “It helps that I’ve accepted my body shape more as I’ve got older. I went through a stage of wanting that straight-up-and-down model look, but I have curves and hips and in the end you have to accept yourself as you are.”

Harder then the interest in her private life has been the the physical scrutiny Emma’s been subjected to over the years. “It made me very self-conscious teenager so it makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually were human beings, and our bodies have a function. We say that the pressures coming from men, but actually it’s from each other. I think women feel so much pressure these days and it can turn us against one another. But we really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.”

“I had terrible skin at one point and had to wear braces at another, and my weight has fluctuated between a [British] size 6 and a 10. When you’re growing, your body is still figuring itself out and it takes a while to settle down.”

Her happy weight? “Probably not far from where I am now, but it depends on my life at the time. If I’m filming action scenes and running from Dementors 12 hours a day, it’s great, but if I’m sitting in the library revising 12 hours a day, inevitably it changes.”