Emma Watson on Acting, Boyfriends, and More

Emma Watson recently chatted with Cineplex.com on the set of Harry Potter. She talks about growing up on set and her introduction to acting. And she reveals that she has been dating Jay Barrymore, a 27-year-old British businessman, for a year!

“It’s very peculiar looking back on [the films] and seeing how much I’ve changed and how much I’ve grown and what I looked like before all this happened,” Emma reveals. She even jokes, saying that she looked like a chipmunk in the first films!

But people identified with her growing up on film. “In a way, that’s what people really identify with. It makes it a real journey, a very real journey, because we literally are growing up with the characters.”

Emma, who is originally from Paris, France, hadn’t acted professionally before being cast as Hermione. She lived in Paris until she was five and then moved with her mother to England after her parents divorced.

In England Emma became interested in acting so she began attending classes at the Stagecoach Theatre Arts school. Her teacher there recommended Emma to the Harry Potter casting directors and she scored the role after eight auditions.

Emma realizes she’s part of an amazing project. “Everything about the book, everything about J.K. Rowling’s world, is thought down to the very last detail. You can pull apart the spells and they’re Latin and they actually mean what they are doing. And all the names are so interesting and so unique and different and everyone has their own history. And how she’s come up with all of this is just so amazing. At the end of each book, it’s almost like an Aesop’s Fable. Every time, every year, there is a lesson that Harry learns.”

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