NEW YORK—Hermione Granger is keenly intelligent, unfailingly resourceful, ever logical, both a tad bossy and a tad insecure, and she believes in using her powers for good. Or maybe, in fact, that’s the actor, Emma Watson. Even she can’t really say for certain.
“I feel that so much of me went into her and so much of her went into me, I can’t really differentiate too much anymore, ” Watson says, pondering the character she’s played in eight Harry Potter films, including the latest and (supposedly) last,
Playing a very famous character in a very famous film series for more than half of one’s 21 years, who wouldn’t get a wee bit confused about just where the actor ends and the character begins? Or vice versa. The character, of course, is novelist J. K. Rowling’s fictional creation, a girl wizard who wields a wand and casts spells like a champ. The actor, meanwhile, is sitting in a room in New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, answering questions about her counterpart and herself and about what, exactly, she will do now that she won’t be playing herself as Hermione anymore—or playing Hermione as herself.
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She is wearing a Givenchy halter minidress involving tiers of black ostrich feathers, a confection that it’s tricky to imagine Hermione willingly stepping into. Her hair is a slightly longer version of the Mia Farrow–style pixie cut she suddenly appeared in—to much attention and some flak—last summer. What look like diamonds dangle from her ears. In person, Watson appears more delicate than she does on-screen, her British accent more precise, her manner almost painfully sincere and sweet. One is reminded that despite being an actor who earned $15, 000, 000 for each of the last two Potter films, she is still very young.
“The last shot we did was this kind of strange moment where we dive into the fireplace in the Ministry of Magic, ” she says, when asked what was her big final moment of filming on the series she began as a rather bushy-haired nine-year-old so long ago. “Dan, Rupert, and I one by one jumped onto these blue safety mats, basically. And that was the shot. That was it. It seemed like kind of a strange one to go out on, but actually David [Yates, the director] made the point that we were, like, leaping into the unknown. It was kind of like a perfect metaphor for what we were all about to go into. It’s so funny. I can’t tell you how I felt when we were shooting it. I was just kind of numb.”
Before leaping into the unknown of real life, the trio of young actors—Watson, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, and Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley—was required to do something possibly trickier in Deathly Hallows parts one and two than jumping onto blue safety mats. As the films ramped up to a climactic battle between wizards good and bad, Watson found herself having to actually, well, emote. The “darker” films were an opportunity to “stretch”, she says, “and really feel like I was an actress and like I was acting, because actually for the first how many years, I didn’t really feel like I was doing much acting at all.”
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Not long ago, questions of whether she could act and whether, after the series cast its final spell, she would act again still lurked in her mind, as dark and scary as the films’ evil Dementors. She took a deep breath, figuratively speaking. Then she took her first role ever (not counting a voice-over in
“I was so nervous doing a different accent, being on a new movie set in a foreign country, with a crew that I didn’t know and a cast I didn’t know, ” she says. One scene required her to mimic Susan Sarandon’s Janet in
. “I’m standing in a corset in front of all of these extras, trying to do this dance. And I felt ridiculous.”
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But in the end, “I had the best six weeks. Having an experience like that outside of Harry Potter was what really convinced me that acting really was what I should be doing and that I was good at it. I’m excited about being an actress now in a way that I wasn’t so sure of when I was younger.” She thinks. “Sometimes you’ve just got to blast through and have faith.”
Watson will attend Oxford in the fall, continuing studies she began at Brown University. She’s nowhere near her 22nd birthday and yet she’s been famous for as long as she can remember, in places she once couldn’t imagine. “I was in a shantytown in Bangladesh, ” she says, “and a boy stopped me in the street and said: ”˜You’re the girl from Harry Potter.’ I was like, ”˜Wow, INews As Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Looms, Top Harvard Dean Still UnannouncedNews Construction on Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus in Allston is Set to BeginNews CS50 Will Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Course InstructionNews Economics Professor Oliver Hart Knighted By King Charles IIINews Families Sue Harvard Medical School Over Human Remains Theft
'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2' is a Gutting GoodbyeHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 -- Dir. David Yates (Warner Bros.) -- 4 Stars
Film Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
It could fairly be said that the Harry Potter books and movies are to our generation what the Beatles were to our parents. What began in June 1997 with just 500 printed copies of J.K. Rowling’s original “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” concluded this summer almost exactly fourteen years later with a film that grossed $168.5 million on its opening weekend. The set of seven books has become the bestselling series of all time, with 450 million copies sold, and has been translated into 67 languages. The intensity of fanatical Pottermania has only grown as successive cohorts of children grew old enough to deal with its morbid themes.
As Rowling became conscious of her growing fanbase, she began making small concessions to our impatience in the days leading up to the publication of a new installment—character names, chapter titles, and other tantalizing details were released even as the new book itself was viciously guarded until its official release date. It is to her credit that the plot of the series did not capitulate to avid readers’ wild demands; indeed, the only stamp that popularity seems to have left on the last few books of the series is their length. Yet the eighth movie of the Warner Bros. series, even more so than the book on which it is based, seems to speak volumes specifically to us college-aged men and women old enough to have eagerly anticipated the release of every Potter book and movie since “Philosopher’s Stone.” With the final installment of the film franchise, director David Yates and his creative team have constructed a deliciously dark conclusion to the series, built entirely around the theme of letting go.
Emma Watson Looking Stunning At The New York Premiere Of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
As the cinematic counterpart to just the conclusion of the last book of the Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” revels in its freedom to focus on the action-packed splendor of a good old-fashioned castle siege without having to worry about dramatic buildup or the explanation of fantastical minutiae. The film begins in media res, with nary a production company logo or opening credit to be seen, with a shot of dark wizard Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) robbing a fresh tomb. Yates makes it clear from the start that this is a movie with great tragic gravitas, not a gimmicky adaptation of a children’s book replete with cloying magical quirks and cozy fireside chats in the Gryffindor Common Room. This is a movie in which the entire magical world we have come to know and love implodes before our very eyes. One can’t help but feel a strange, convulsive excitement as symbol after symbol of childhood gaiety and security—the Quidditch pitch, the Room of Requirement, the bridge on which Lupin (David Thewlis) and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) once bonded—burn to the ground. Rowling giveth, and Rowling taketh away, and with every newly crumbling antediluvian edifice a little part of the Potter world dies.
And each part dies, of course, in spectacularly expensive fashion. “A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud, ” Yates told the British magazine The Observer in 2007, a couple years after signing on to the Potter project. “At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it’s like having a big train set.” If a blockbuster is a big train set, then “Deathly Hallows – Part 2” is the TGV. The special effects of the film are an absolute triumph, from the reassuringly solid crunch as the titanic stone guardians of Hogwarts fall into rank and file to protect their home to the foggy green narcotic cloud of the Imperio curse as it slithers into the crooked
But in the end, “I had the best six weeks. Having an experience like that outside of Harry Potter was what really convinced me that acting really was what I should be doing and that I was good at it. I’m excited about being an actress now in a way that I wasn’t so sure of when I was younger.” She thinks. “Sometimes you’ve just got to blast through and have faith.”
Watson will attend Oxford in the fall, continuing studies she began at Brown University. She’s nowhere near her 22nd birthday and yet she’s been famous for as long as she can remember, in places she once couldn’t imagine. “I was in a shantytown in Bangladesh, ” she says, “and a boy stopped me in the street and said: ”˜You’re the girl from Harry Potter.’ I was like, ”˜Wow, INews As Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Looms, Top Harvard Dean Still UnannouncedNews Construction on Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus in Allston is Set to BeginNews CS50 Will Integrate Artificial Intelligence Into Course InstructionNews Economics Professor Oliver Hart Knighted By King Charles IIINews Families Sue Harvard Medical School Over Human Remains Theft
'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2' is a Gutting GoodbyeHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 -- Dir. David Yates (Warner Bros.) -- 4 Stars
Film Review: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
It could fairly be said that the Harry Potter books and movies are to our generation what the Beatles were to our parents. What began in June 1997 with just 500 printed copies of J.K. Rowling’s original “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” concluded this summer almost exactly fourteen years later with a film that grossed $168.5 million on its opening weekend. The set of seven books has become the bestselling series of all time, with 450 million copies sold, and has been translated into 67 languages. The intensity of fanatical Pottermania has only grown as successive cohorts of children grew old enough to deal with its morbid themes.
As Rowling became conscious of her growing fanbase, she began making small concessions to our impatience in the days leading up to the publication of a new installment—character names, chapter titles, and other tantalizing details were released even as the new book itself was viciously guarded until its official release date. It is to her credit that the plot of the series did not capitulate to avid readers’ wild demands; indeed, the only stamp that popularity seems to have left on the last few books of the series is their length. Yet the eighth movie of the Warner Bros. series, even more so than the book on which it is based, seems to speak volumes specifically to us college-aged men and women old enough to have eagerly anticipated the release of every Potter book and movie since “Philosopher’s Stone.” With the final installment of the film franchise, director David Yates and his creative team have constructed a deliciously dark conclusion to the series, built entirely around the theme of letting go.
Emma Watson Looking Stunning At The New York Premiere Of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
As the cinematic counterpart to just the conclusion of the last book of the Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” revels in its freedom to focus on the action-packed splendor of a good old-fashioned castle siege without having to worry about dramatic buildup or the explanation of fantastical minutiae. The film begins in media res, with nary a production company logo or opening credit to be seen, with a shot of dark wizard Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) robbing a fresh tomb. Yates makes it clear from the start that this is a movie with great tragic gravitas, not a gimmicky adaptation of a children’s book replete with cloying magical quirks and cozy fireside chats in the Gryffindor Common Room. This is a movie in which the entire magical world we have come to know and love implodes before our very eyes. One can’t help but feel a strange, convulsive excitement as symbol after symbol of childhood gaiety and security—the Quidditch pitch, the Room of Requirement, the bridge on which Lupin (David Thewlis) and Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) once bonded—burn to the ground. Rowling giveth, and Rowling taketh away, and with every newly crumbling antediluvian edifice a little part of the Potter world dies.
And each part dies, of course, in spectacularly expensive fashion. “A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud, ” Yates told the British magazine The Observer in 2007, a couple years after signing on to the Potter project. “At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it’s like having a big train set.” If a blockbuster is a big train set, then “Deathly Hallows – Part 2” is the TGV. The special effects of the film are an absolute triumph, from the reassuringly solid crunch as the titanic stone guardians of Hogwarts fall into rank and file to protect their home to the foggy green narcotic cloud of the Imperio curse as it slithers into the crooked
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