| masterofmystery | 06-05-2011 01:43 PM |
Video: New Emma Watson Lancôme photo shoot on-set look, talks Harry Potter, Brown uni
Emma Watson spoke to The Sunday Times' Style magazine about her collaborative work for Lancôme's Midnight Rose perfume campaign, leaving university, and portraying Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series. A new behind-the-scenes look at Emma's Lancôme Paris shoot has been released online, featuring numerous new images of the actress on set. <object width="600" height="339" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/10150286576572457" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/10150286576572457" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="339"></embed></object>
On the reality of becoming a university student, despite her fame. Quote:
“I was in denial,” she says. “I wanted to pretend I wasn’t as famous as I was. I was trying to seek out normality, but I kind of have to accept who I am, the position I’m in and what happened.”
You mean Potter? “Yeah,” she replies, “but I feel more comfortable with the fame now. It used to make me really uncomfortable. It’s interesting. My dad’s always giving me a hard time about my posture. The way I used to stand, it was almost as if I was apologising to everyone. I wanted to hide myself, but now — it’s difficult, I still feel shy, but I feel more like I can accept it.”
Nevertheless, she doesn’t feel like a natural for stardom. “Sometimes I think I am the worst person to be in the position I’m in. I’m shy, I’m sensitive and I’m self-critical. It’s a terrible combination.” She pauses for emphasis. “But those qualities also make me want to be better.”
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On her unique position growing up in the spotlight via the Harry Potter series. Quote:
"I said, ‘Do you honestly think that me doing a Lancôme campaign is going to make me any less or more famous than doing Harry Potter?’ I have to accept Harry Potter is the biggest film franchise of all time. I have to just roll with it.”
That has taken more than a decade: the first film came out 10 years ago, when she was 11, though she won the part when she was nine. I tell her child stars always seem both overly mature and emotionally stunted. “That’s such an interesting observation,” she nods. “I absolutely agree with you. I’m this very weird mix. In some senses, I feel as if I’m 100 years old. In others, I still feel incredibly young, very naive, and as if I haven’t seen much of the world at all. I’ve been incredibly protected, but in other ways I’ve had to be in situations that nobody my age would, to deal with pressure that nobody my age should usually deal with,” she says.
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The truth behind the bullying rumours that did not, as confirmed by her representatives, cause her to leave Brown University. Quote:
“It made me so sad when all this stuff came out that I left Brown because I was being bullied. It made no sense at all. Brown has been the opposite. I’ve never even been asked for an autograph on campus. I threw a party for nearly 100 students and not a single person put a photo on Facebook.” She rolls her eyes.
“Anyway, even if I was being given a hard time, I wasn’t going to wuss out of university because someone said ‘Wingardium leviosa’ to me in a corridor, or ‘Ten points for Gryffindor’. I’ve been dealing with the media since I was nine. If I can’t stand up to a few people giving me a hard time, it’s a bit pathetic, really. I’ve had so much worse.”
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http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/...mebts1_073.jpg Quote:
“It feels so scary stepping out of Potter, it really does,” she says, with the last film out in July. “But people have been so kind. Lancôme saying I’m the icon of a generation, Glamour saying I’m the best dressed... I just hope I can be everything that everyone wants me to be, I guess.”
| The full interview can be read here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II will be released in theatres and IMAX this July. |
