Nylon magazine released a behind-the-scenes feature of their October cover shoot, featuring Emma Watson and her The Perks in Being a Wallflower costars Ezra Miller and Logan Lerman. That can be viewed here.









Emma was interviewed earlier this month by The Sunday Times Magazine, where she of course discussed her work in The Perks in Being a Wallflower, and mostly growing up and adjusting to the public scrutiny of being an actress and celebrity. More of that can be read in the scans below; highlights can be found here.

Emma admitted that she will spend this fall finishing work on Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah' and possibly take some classes in New York in her downtime. As she mentioned several times recently already, Emma will complete her undergraduate studies at Brown this coming spring, after which she is scheduled to work on Guillermo del Toro's Beauty and the Beast adaptation sometime by the end of 2013. The Harry Potter actress noted that she is currently talking to director del Toro about who to cast as the Beast (no one confirmed or rumoured yet).

“I started of at the beginning of the ['Harry Potter'] series adamantly protecting my own sense of self and my identity as Emma,” she says. The book has now been placed, cover down, in the space between us. “I was this nine-year-old who would be sat in these interviews going, ‘No, I’m not anything like her, I’m different because of this and this and this’ – at nine.” She sighs. “People would say, ‘You are really Hermione, aren’t you?’ and it went on and on till it got to a point where I said, fine. It’s easier for me to say we’re one person because that keeps everyone happy. I’ll go with that.” The parallels were convenient to draw.

Does she have the constitution to be a big movie star? “I’ve thought about that a lot,” she says. “And no, I don’t have the constitution to be a big movie star. Or a big celebrity.” She pauses. “But I do have the constitution to be a good actress. Some of the stuff is really hard for me. But I really like my job when I’m doing my job. It’s just there’s this weird blue that’s happening between being a celebrity and being an actress.”

Is she scared of the rejection – that people might not accept her as someone other than Hermione? “No, I don’t care if they do. For once, I really don’t. Making this film was one of the most important things I feel I’ve done. I’m proud of it. If people want to say whatever they want to say – I’m okay with it because for once, I don’t need that validation.”

Once she got [to Brown University], however, her professional life impinged on her studies. She was still filming parts of ‘Harry Potter’ during her first year, and there were other obligations.

“I was doing reshoots. I was going voice recording. And I had two movies left to promote. It’s part of my job to show up. I would go from doing the ‘Harry Potter’ press tour and the red carpets to then being in class the next day. I felt like I was schizophrenic, living two completely different parallel lives. And that messes with you. I wanted to start fresh – but you can’t – I can’t divorce the side of me that is an actress and a public person, right? I have to accept that all the sides of me are part of me and I have to find a way to bring them together a bit. I tried to keep them separate but it’s too much of a head-f---.”

She looks exasperated. “I was interviewed at 13 or 14, and the journalist said, ‘So that means you’d never have to work for money?’ and I said yes. The quote was, ‘I never have to work for money again,’ and that quote has haunted me. People took it to mean that I wasn’t grateful, or aware of how fortunate I am. If I say it’s something that has affected my life very little, or that it doesn’t mean a lot to me, it seems I’m not appreciative.”

“I could not have anticipated the level of attention and scrutiny that haircut got. ‘Why did she do it? what was the motivation behind it?’ That is news to people? My mum has short hair. I’ve always wanted to cut my hair short. It wasn’t calculated to make a splash.”

There is a long pause. “There’s been a moment where I discovered I’m very breakable and very human.” Another pause. “When I took time off from Brown. I was done. I was so exhausted I was like a ghost walking around. I kind of realised: no, Emma, you can’t make two films back to back while doing a degree, while flying backwards and forwards and trying to promote the film at the same time, while being a daughter and a sister, everything. You can’t do it. There will be backlash. I think it was about realising …”

She wells up. “At that moment I thought I was broken and I thought i was used up and I thought I had nothing left to give. I’d given everything and I didn’t really know what was left. But there’s a part of us that is unbreakable. You always find it again.”

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