Emma Watson

[immortalbliss]

New photo from the Marie Claire feature.. From fashiongonerogue.com..

 

[sobriquet87]

^Lovely. She has a gorgeous profile. Here's a new interview from the Herald Sun:

School's out for Emma Watson

EMMA Watson gives a friendly wave as she cycles past on the set of the final Harry Potter films.

Riding her own personalised bike, she negotiates the labyrinthine passage ways of the enormous converted aircraft hanger in London's north like an expert. Which of course she is.

Having spent more than a decade - and more than half of her life - making the eight Harry Potter films, the set is like a second home and its long-serving crew part of her extended family.

Soon she will be sitting four metres in the air in front of a giant green screen, fastened by a harness to a broom and pretending to dodge fire and fiendish foes as a fan blows her hair back.

Approaching the end of the most successful film franchise of all time, with $5.5 billion dollars from the six chapters released so far, she is still finding new challenges - it's her first time on the broomstick.

"It can be tough - you obviously have to engage your imagination a lot," she says of the green screen work.

"Things aren't really there, so you have to use eye lines and cues. It's more demanding.''

As the bookish, brave and brainy Hermione Granger, confidante of boy wizard Harry Potter and love interest to his best mate Ron Weasley, Watson has often had to look on while her co-stars and friends Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint tear around like mad things.

But in the film version of the final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - which has been split in two, with part one due out later this month and part two out next July - Watson is relishing a return to the action as the trio hit the road to hunt down the dastardly Lord Voldemort.

"I haven't really done any action for a while, since about the third film," she says. "I haven't really been involved in any stunts or fights or anything.

"So this has been really fun as a break from some of the more heavy, emotional stuff. This film is quite tense and emotional and the plot is very fast driven - a lot happens.

"There is a lot of death and blood - it's quite heavy and that can be quite tough on you. So it's nice to have a release from that sometimes to go and do some play fighting and running.''

The darkness of the story isn't the only emotional drain on the actors.

The fact they are filming the last two films together has meant saying goodbye to the people and places Watson has literally grown up with.

The svelte, pixyish actor, now 20, was nine and had acted only in school plays when she was cast in the crucial role of Hermione.

It's strange to hear her describe the films as "her life's work" at such a young age, but given the place that J.K Rowling's books and their movie adaptations have in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world, she admits the pressure is on to give them an appropriate send-off.

She has mixed feelings about the long-awaited finale and life post-Potter.

"On the one hand I am very excited to go away and do new things and move on," she says. "On the other hand it's really sad to say goodbye to people I have really cared about here - friends I have made.

"I have literally grown up here and Harry Potter is such a massive part of my life, I have to find new things to fill that gap. It's a big change."

Thankfully, Watson is not short of options. Having been named as Hollywood's highest paid actress this year, with a fortune of more than $30 million, she never has to lift a finger to work again should she so choose.

After living frugally with her parents through her teens, she says she was shocked - and a little sick - when her father told her just how much money she had at the age of 17.

But for now, her focus is on education. She aced her final school exams last year and is currently studying Liberal Arts at the prestigious Brown University in the US and trying to live as normal an existence as possible.

She says she was worried about how she would be received at university, fears that were founded on her first day when she was approached for an autograph, causing her to break down in tears.

But since then, she has embraced campus life - living in a dorm with a shared bathroom and going to friends' parties - and it has embraced her by not making a big deal of her celebrity and not posting candid pictures of her on social networking sites.

After living in a bubble for so many years, she is loving the new experiences and friends, but says she doesn't yet have a long-term plan for acting or anything else.

"I am not really looking that far ahead,'' she says. "I have four years at university. I am constantly being asked to look ahead and about what I am going to do - I don't know."

Watson has made only brief acting forays beyond the walls of Hogwarts - once to voice a princess in the animated Tales of Despereaux, once in the BBC telemovie, Ballet Shoes, and she has just started filming the indie drama My Week With Marilyn opposite Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench.

With generally positive reviews in Ballet Shoes, she says the experience was "amazing" and prepared her for acting outside the role for which she is so famous.

"In Harry Potter, we will maybe get a scene in a week,'' she says. "In Ballet Shoes we did three or four scenes in a day. Getting used to that pace and working with a smaller crew I really enjoyed. I kind of proved to myself that I could play a different part, really.

"I was really worried when we were doing rehearsals that all that was going to come out was Hermione and I wouldn't be able to find anything else."

Watson's other passion is fashion.

For the past two years she has been the face of Burberry as well as being involved as a "creative adviser" with People Tree, a Fair Trade fashion brand.

But despite regularly dazzling on the red carpet and gracing the covers of high-end fashion magazines, including the Christmas edition of British Vogue, Watson describes her own fashion philosophy as "simple is better".

"Be yourself and be comfortable," she says. "Wear what you feel confident in and don't wear things just because they are in fashion or whatever.

"If they don't suit you and you don't feel good in it - just don't go with it. I am a less is more person - I hate wearing too much makeup or jewellery."

Watson says she will especially miss Radcliffe and Grint. The oldest child in her family, she says she likes to be the "baby" on set and says "it's like having two older, protective brothers".

That made things rather odd when the much-vaunted first kiss between Hermione and Ron rolled around.

"That was a very strange day at the office," she says, laughing. "It was very awkward.

"He is like my brother and we grew up together so it was a very strange position to have to kiss someone you don't really feel that way about.

"I think we were worried that we wouldn't be able to keep a straight face and stop laughing for long enough to get the shot. But we managed it and I hope it looks good."

 

[immortalbliss]

The Sunday Times Harry Potter Special.. From Chieraa at pottershots.. Emma's not on the cover but there is a new interview and some new photos of her on set.. There are a lot of pages but I'm only uploading those pages that relate to Harry Potter the movie directly and mentions Emma as well as Emma's interview..

 

[immortalbliss]

Continuation from my previous post (I can't upload more than 15 images in one post so I had to break them up)..

 

[Alvedansen]

2010-11-05 - After a private viewing of the latest Harry Potter movie

celebrity-paradise

 

[MonkeyFish]

Really looking forward to see what she is going to wear on thursday's premiere!

 

[Susybela]

Thanks for the pics!!
She looks lovely!

 

[sobriquet87]

I love that outfit from the HP7 screening. She looks great!
It's girly, but edgy and comfortable at the same time. Love it!!

I can't wait to see what she's wearing to the premiere in just 4 days!

 

[immortalbliss]

She looks adorable!

 

[simple_elegance]

Wow, the premiere is Thursday...that's much closer than I thought it was. Can't wait to see what she wears!

 

[BewareBabeInside]

First, I would like to say HI to you, fashion-lovers, Emma fans or both
I've just sighned in

I think the look to the privet viewing of HP7 part 1 is OK.
I would have changed the shoes, i find them too simple

I'm really happy to see her in a skirt (I'm a huge fan of feminine style), I've always missed the period of the promotion of the 3rd HP, she seemed to wear A LOT of skirts I think that a more voluminous high-waist skirt would do better though.

The accesories are all looking good together & on her, the colour palette is eye-pleasing

I love the shirt's print, but the sleeves are just killing me. I can't understand what kind of fabric is it made of, any help? I think I saw this top before somewhere and just can't remember where..

 

[sobriquet87]

^I believe the top may be Burberry. I'm not sure though.

Here's a cute new BTS video of Emma's UK Vogue shoot. She's chatting with the photographer, Mario Testino:



erasemyheart @pottershots.net

Also, Here are some scans from the Austrailan magazine, Girlfriend.
Emma was on the cover of the November 2010 issue.
Unfortunately, there are no new pictures. But it's a great read:



emmawatson.net

 

[yesitsdagny]

she looks absolutely adorable in that Vogue video

 

[Alvedansen]

she so cute in the video, i'd love to get some outtakes from that shoot!

 

[Bahiyya]

I am ridiculously in love with how her hair looks now. In fact, when I see old pics of her with the long hair I find that look a bit boring lol.

 

[saturdaysgirl]

I love her hair right now.
I read an article in the Sunday Observer about her. It was an absolute disgrace - they didn't even interview her - it was just quotes from the Vogue article and was competely pointless. Argh.
Anyway, nice to see that HP viewing pic. I like it.
Love her hair like this. It's suits her sooo much.

 

[Prairie]

Premiere outfits - done! x

http://twitter.com/EmWatson

 

[Alvedansen]

^so excited

how many premieres is she going to attend? london on thursday and NY next monday, right? any others or just tv shows?

 

[immortalbliss]

She's only attending those 2 premieres, (US & UK).. Nothing else was confirmed yet.. 4 TV shows interviews confirmed so far..

So excited as well! Really can't wait to see what she'll wear..

 

[Susybela]

so excited