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Emma Watson plays hip American teen outsider
By David Germain |
September 16, 2012, Sunday
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EMMA Watson is living out another fantasy - the life of a high school kid that she missed out on while growing up in the Harry Potter fold.
For her first major film role since leaving wizards behind, Watson chose "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," playing an American teen in a clique of hip outsiders at a Pittsburgh school.
The 22-year-old British actress said it gave her a taste of a whole different life considering her cloistered upbringing on the set of the Potter franchise, in which she was cast as bookish young hero Hermione Granger at age 9.
"It felt pretty exotic to me. It really did. It was a very voyeuristic experience," Watson said at the Toronto International Film Festival, where "Perks" screened before its US release September 21. "Getting to go to Friday night football and Olive Garden, school dances and all of that stuff. That was really another world to me."
She's rich and world-famous because of the eight "Harry Potter" films, and Watson shares Hermione's studiousness, spending a couple of years at Brown University before launching into a busy post-"Potter" film schedule.
Yet for all the worldliness that comes with Hollywood experience, Watson said growing up in a celebrity bubble left her feeling like a kid in many ways.
"There are some parts of me that feel very old, and then there are other parts of me that are, like, I have a sense of my own arrested development," Watson said. "There are some parts of me right now that are probably going through adolescence."
After "Perks," she co-starred in Sofia Coppola's 2013 release "The Bling Ring," playing one of a group of celebrity-obsessed LA teens who burgle the homes of Hollywood stars.
Watson is working on a biblical epic "Noah," co-starring with Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Hopkins. The film is directed by Darren Aronofsky.
For her first major film role since leaving wizards behind, Watson chose "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," playing an American teen in a clique of hip outsiders at a Pittsburgh school.
The 22-year-old British actress said it gave her a taste of a whole different life considering her cloistered upbringing on the set of the Potter franchise, in which she was cast as bookish young hero Hermione Granger at age 9.
"It felt pretty exotic to me. It really did. It was a very voyeuristic experience," Watson said at the Toronto International Film Festival, where "Perks" screened before its US release September 21. "Getting to go to Friday night football and Olive Garden, school dances and all of that stuff. That was really another world to me."
She's rich and world-famous because of the eight "Harry Potter" films, and Watson shares Hermione's studiousness, spending a couple of years at Brown University before launching into a busy post-"Potter" film schedule.
Yet for all the worldliness that comes with Hollywood experience, Watson said growing up in a celebrity bubble left her feeling like a kid in many ways.
"There are some parts of me that feel very old, and then there are other parts of me that are, like, I have a sense of my own arrested development," Watson said. "There are some parts of me right now that are probably going through adolescence."
After "Perks," she co-starred in Sofia Coppola's 2013 release "The Bling Ring," playing one of a group of celebrity-obsessed LA teens who burgle the homes of Hollywood stars.
Watson is working on a biblical epic "Noah," co-starring with Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Hopkins. The film is directed by Darren Aronofsky.
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