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Emma
Charlotte Duerre Watson is 12 years old and comes from Oxford. She was born on
15th April 1990 and named after a close family member, making her Emma Watson
II. Emma lives with her mother,
Jacqueline, 43, who is divorced from her father, Chris, and her 8-year-old brother,
Alex, who is 3 years younger than her. Both her parents are
lawyers. Her favourite animals are cats, two of which live in her house. Her cat
is called Bubbles, and practically lives on her bed, and Alex's is called
Domino.
Emma
has wanted to be an actress since she was about 5 although she doesn't come from
a theatrical background. She has acted in school productions. These include the
role of Morgan La Fay in the Musical Arthur, the Young Years (she obviously has a talent for playing
witches; she dressed up as one for Halloween one year!). She enjoyed this
because she loves singing. She has also played the part of the Angry Cook in
Alice in Wonderland and one of the lead roles as the swallow in The
Happy Prince. When she was 7, she also won first prize in her age group in
the Daisy Pratt Competition for Poetry recital.
She is quite sporty, enjoying rounders, hockey, tennis, tug of war and sculling and her other hobbies include speaking in her school debating society, reading, and singing on her school bus! In her free time she also enjoys listening to pop music, especially Dido, Bryan Adams, Suzanne Vega and Samantha Mumba, and watching comedy films! She says that if she had an invisibility cloak of her own then she would use it to sneak into 15s! If she had magic powers she would would... cast Brad Pitt in Harry Potter! Emma says he 'is a dude' and she would give him any part if she could.
When
it comes to her fellow the actors, she admires Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn and
John Cleese, (who stars alongside her as Nearly Headless Nick in HP)
Emma
likes school, but doesn't love it like
Hermione does. She does say though that she doesn't enjoy studying. Her
favourite subject is PE, but she hates geography and maths.
Emma also knows how she'd like the Harry Potter stories to end. "I would like Voldemort to be killed - properly dead - so that Harry wouldn't have anymore problems, for Ron to become really super-duper rich and for Malfoy's parents to go broke! She doesn't think that Ron and Hermione will marry though!
Emma
is "obsessed with fashion" ( she especially likes DKNY, GAP and Harvey
Nichols) and is a natural blond, but had her hair dyed a reddish-brown colour
for the movie. Hermione's hairdo was a mixture of hair extensions and teasing.
In an interview she stated that she NEVER wears her hair in pigtails, she wears
PLAITS! According to Rupert, she can be quite bossy sometimes!
She isn't sure
whether acting is her preferred career choice at the moment but she enjoys
acting for the time being!
Emma's Story
Emma Watson was
visited at her school in Oxford when she was in the middle of Harry Potter and the Prisoner
of Azkaban, (her favourite Harry Potter book) and a big Harry Potter fan.
She was asked by her Drama teacher, with several girls from her school, whether
she'd like to try out for the role of Hermione Granger, and thought it would be
fun to try. As she got further through the auditions as they got more
competitive, and more disappointed girls were knocked out of the running, she
wanted the role more and more. After several auditions, that is exactly what she
got!
As soon as she
discovered she had the role she telephoned her best friend, who was, according
to Emma, as, or perhaps more, excited as she was. She screamed down the phone so
that Emma had to hold the phone about half a metre away from her ear to avoid
being deafened!
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Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone
Emma was
interested to discover what the exterior views of the school would look like.
She was most excited about what the first view of the school would be like. She
says that this scene took ages to film. They had to keep making admiring noises
about the castle. She said the noises were the same ones that you make watching
fireworks!
Her favourite scene was the troll scene because she had to do lots of stunts. There were six cubicles with safety mates underneath and she had to climb through gaps of 30cm (she kept bumping her head!) and do lots of dodging and ducking and diving under sinks!
Emma got to deliver some of the best lines in the film. Her favourite lines were:
"I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever plan to get us killed, or worse, expelled!"
and
"Honestly, you're going to take someone's eye out!"
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She also enjoyed setting Snape's cloak on fire!
She thinks that Ron gets all the snooty lines from Hermione and that he always seems to come off worse. She may be right there!
Emma says that the hardest scenes to film were the visual effect scenes because she had to pretend that things were there, when really there was nothing there at all! From the set she says she would most like one of the huge chess pieces. One problem; will it fit in your bedroom, Emma?!
The first time she saw the movie, Emma said that seeing herself 10ft tall on the screen was really freaky!
The Premieres
London
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New York
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Looking forward to the other films
Now that the movie has been filmed Emma Watson has to admit that making movies isn't all glitz and glamour! Some days the actors had to be on set 6.00am, which meant getting up at 5.30! She says that being recognised has changed her life because, although she thought it would be cool to give out autographs and photos, it is also really hard work!
In the second film, Emma is most looking forward to seeing how they'll make her look like a cat!
Interview Pictures
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Being Interviewed by CBBC Newsround at the London Premiere
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Press interviews at the London Premiere
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Press interviews from the New York Premiere
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Being interviewed by Newsround for the CBBC Harry Potter week
(October half term 2001)
Awards
Emma was nominated for a Young Artist Award 2002 for Best Ensemble in a Feature Film, which she shared with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) , Rupert Grint (Ron), and Tom Felton (Draco).
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Emma started her filming for the second Harry Potter movie back in December, 2001. It is now well on the way to completion, and is due to be released on 15th November 2002.
The Premieres
The DVD Launch Party
Interviews
Emma Out and About elsewhere!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, London Palladium
Emma recently went to see the new stage musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which tells the story of a magical car made by an inventor called Caractacus Potts and features the evil Child Catcher!
Emma was among the celebrity audience who were baffled by the special effects at the world premiere at the London Palladium. And she spoke exclusively to Newsround Online after the show.
"I've absolutely no idea how they managed to fly the car on stage!" she said.
She recommended it, saying it was "It was absolutely fabulous," and "...very cool."
She really liked the costumes and the details in the set design (and all the glitter that falls from the ceiling during the show).
She also liked the feeling of being in the audience
"There was a great atmosphere, everyone clapped along to the songs,".
Emma said she'd like to be in musicals as she loves singing and dancing.
Universal Studios
Thanks to Rex Features for these pics :)
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Filming for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban began on Monday 24th February 2003. The film is due out in 2004. Prisoner of Azkaban is Emma's fav book, so she has really been looking forward to the filming.
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Yes, “Azkaban” is the puberty movie in the Potter franchise—the one, says Emma Watson, who plays Hermione, in which “all those lovely, lovely hormones start coming out.” How will the movie reflect the changes afoot? “Lots of sex,” says Alfonso Cuaron, the Mexican director who’s taken over the reins of the series from Chris Columbus. “Lots of nudity. And lots of sex.” Relax, he’s joking. But Cuaron notes that his teenage cast is coming of age just as the characters are, and that there’s, uh, pollen in the air. “You just have to let it flow,” he says. “You don’t need to encourage it. You allow it to be. And believe me, they have a lot of it.” Watson, who’s 13, has a sign on her dressing-room door that reads BEWARE: BABE INSIDE.
Emma at the Scooby Doo 2 Premiere
