Emma Watson’s Big Girl Interview

I could care less what she’s doing AFTER potter but the article did highlight the process it took her to become an overnight success and I do love a Hollywood story:

BLASBERG: So then you just went to an open call?

WATSON: No, there was no open audition—they went all over England to find these characters, and not just drama schools. They came to my school and asked if they could put forward a group of 20 children between the ages of 9 and 12. They took my photograph in the school gym, and then I got a call three weeks later.

BLASBERG: What happened between that gym photo and the first day of shooting?

WATSON: It was a long time—eight auditions . . .

On set of The Deathly Hallows
BLASBERG: Did you meet any of the other girls who were going out for the parts?

WATSON: Yes! I won’t say the name, but there was this girl who had already done a film before. I can remember just crumbling at the sight of her, thinking, “She’s been in a film before, and she knows how to do this. I have no chance.” Even worse, one time I came to the studios, and she was there playing cards with one of the other boys auditioning for Harry—not Daniel
Radcliffe. And I was like, “Oh, my god, they’re making friends already! I’m definitely not going to get it.” I was so, so upset.

BLASBERG: I bet those two have pictures of you and Daniel Radcliffe on their dartboards now.

WATSON: Probably. But I wanted it so badly.

BLASBERG: Why? Because you wanted to be in movies and be famous, or because you identified with that role?

WATSON: I loved the books—I was a massive fan. I just felt like that part belonged to me.

All grown up and going to college at Brown here in the states, Emma doesn’t even notice the paps snapping a picture of her from time to time like this one of them recently kissing, and is a well adjusted star. Too adjusted and strong minded, in fact, to keep believing that fame will fill up whatever hole you have in your life. I think she’ll be one of those actresses that choses to do another some else for the other half of her life.

Maybe even write a children’s novel about a little girl who became a Hollywood starlet overnight.

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