Emma Watson took a very Hermione Granger approach to her 'Harry Potter' audition. The actor used perfectionist techniques to help her win the role.
Before Emma Watson portrayed Hermione Granger in all eight Harry Potter movies, she was just another fan. At age seven, the actor’s father used to read her the bestselling books on long car rides. So, when she had the opportunity to audition for the film adaptations, she jumped at the opportunity. Despite not having any professional acting credits, Watson’s passion for performance and for Hermione Granger made her confident she could land the role.
Cast auditioned for more than one part, Watson always had her heart set on Hermoine. The Noah actor felt a deep affinity for the character because of their many similarities. Like Hermoine, Watson was a self-proclaimed nerd with a voracious appetite for learning. And the actor was keen on using these similarities to her advantage.
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“Playing Hermione just came so naturally; I had a real affinity for her, ” Watson shared in an interview with Marie Claire. “I felt like I knew exactly who she was. Like me, she’s very loyal and determined, she’s very intelligent, and she has a lot of guy friends, as I do. Her eagerness to please and to have the right answer is definitely like me. I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.”
Auditions. She spent a full day obsessing over the choices she would make and the delivery of her lines. In fact, the multimillionaire was so committed to delivering the perfect self-tape audition, that adults had to step in and ensure that she wasn’t overworking herself.
“I started working on the audition at 9 in the morning and didn’t stop until 5 in the evening, ” Watson remembers of her
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Audition. “The tape was just me doing the same thing hundreds of times over, until I got it exactly right. I was just amazed at my stamina. The grown-ups said, ‘We had to stop you; you wanted to keep going.’ I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.”
Watson was 100 percent convinced that the role of Hermione belonged to her. In fact, even her parents weren’t able to convince her to take a more realistic approach. However, Watson’s confidence in her auditions (and her work ethic) is what helped her to land the part. She managed to beat out thousands of competitors for the role of a lifetime.
Movies, she never could’ve predicted just how much they would take over her life. In fact, her initial contract was only for the first two films. Ultimately the franchise would comprise of eight movies, with Watson reprising her role in all of them. Being in such a huge franchise certainly challenged Watson at times. She gave up a lot of her childhood to be a part of them. And while she considering quitting the franchise a time or two, ultimately she’s happy she stuck it out.
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“It wasn’t like I made one movie; it was working consistently for 10 years, ” Watson said. “There was no reprieve. But I’m glad I saw it through to the end; I played that character from the start, and I wanted to finish what I started. It felt very satisfying that I had completed Hermione’s journey.”franchise approaching a reboot, the upcoming HBO show will witness a brand new cast to portray the iconic characters. But it is almost impossible for fans to witness anyone filling the shoes of stars, including Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, who brought the characters in the original saga to life. However, it seems that before Watson was eventually selected for the role of Hermione Granger, there was another actress who almost surpassed her.
Looking back at her initial struggles, Watson once expressed how she relentlessly worked herself to achieve the role of Hermione, as she wasn’t the initial choice for the role.
Janet Hirshenson revealed that they initially considered another actress other than Emma Watson for the role of Hermione. Hirshenson recalled that the actress, who ended up in the final two alongside Watson for the role was Hatty Jones, who already established her name before auditioning for the movie through 1998’s
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“There was another little girl that we tested who had just done I think ‘Madeline. She had done a big movie, and she was quite Hermione-ish, so I think Emma saw her at the auditions and went, ‘Oh, well, I got no chance. There’s her.'”
Even though Emma Watson might not have been experienced as Jones, according to Hirshenson, Watson didn’t fail to deliver on the occasions and Jones stood no chance when Watson took the stage. The
Actress later opened up about the struggles she endured in order to perfect her audition for the role of Hermione Granger and how much it meant to her.
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In order to secure the iconic role, Emma Watson spent a substantial amount of time perfecting the audition clip to impress the casting directors. Watson, who firmly believes that one should work hard to earn the things that one wants, opened up about her anxiety before the audition while speaking with GQ and expressed how adamant she was about the role. The actress explained her process for capturing the perfect audition clip by stating,
“I worked hard to get Hermione, and my mum has a video I did for the first audition and she has me doing the same takeover and over, like 27 times from nine in the morning until five in the afternoon and I was just relentless. I wasn’t sure I wanted to act, but I was sure I wanted this part.”
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Actress not only secured the role but also cemented herself as one of the fan favorites from the original saga and it is now impossible to imagine anyone in the role of Hermione except her.
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