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CANNES, France — Emma Watson couldn't be further from Hermione Granger in The Bling Ring. She plays a celebrity-obsessed house burglar in Sofia Coppola's new film.

I'm not trying to run away from it, Watson said at a Cannes Film Festival news conference on Thursday where The Bling Ring premiered. I'm very proud of the work that I did. I'm just really enjoying having the chance to transform into new roles.

And transform she does in the crime tale, based on true events, of troubled teens who target the likes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, break into celebrity homes and steal their precious swag with amazing ease.

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For Watson, her Granger days are long behind her, even though Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 came out in 2011.

It's strange for me because Harry Potter seems like such a long time ago, said Watson. So much has happened over the last three or four years. But obviously it's very present in people's minds and living rooms.

She enjoyed working with Coppola on the film and especially relished having the freedom to improvise scenes with her castmates, something not allowed by strict legions of Potter fans.

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I am used to really having to stick to my lines. Because people really know them by heart, said Watson. So it was lovely to ad-lib or improvise. It was really special.

Watson prepared for the part by watching a heavy dose of reality television shows like Keeping Up With the Kardashians and The Hills. This helped get into the celeb-obsessed mind-set. And the British actress focused on capturing the voice of a Los Angeles girl.

It's interesting to see actors that you see in other films transform into characters that are so different from themselves, said Coppola. It's exciting.

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For Watson, it is the next step in her career following last year's hit The Perks of Being a Wallflower. She said she's seeing even more opportunities for women actors in film — pointing out roles like those in Bridesmaids and Rebel Wilson's hosting of the MTV Awards as signs that the gender field is leveling.

I feel we're doing great, said Watson. There's still a way to go. I'm not pretending there's perfect equality in the industry. But we're moving in a really great direction.Copyright © 2023, Los Angeles Times | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | CA Notice of Collection | Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Emma Watson says that she felt a “a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while” when people wondered if she would still have a career after “Harry Potter.”

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That’s after the 23-year-old stopped acting altogether for a bit and briefly enrolled at Brown University in 2009, then dropped out before completing a degree. Post-”Potter, ” the child star, who skyrocketed to fame in the big screen-adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s series about a boy wizard, took on a small role in “My Week With Marilyn” in 2011, fully returned to acting in “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and made serious fun of herself in the self-deprecating raunch-com “This Is the End.”

But Watson said that she, and even her agent, were “surprised” by her return to acting after the juggernaut that was “Harry Potter” and the eight feature films.

“I was really unsure, but then I read the script for ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower, ’ and falling in love with that and then having such a great experience on that movie kind of sealed the deal for me, ” Watson told Entertainment Weekly.

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“I stopped intellectualizing it, and it became much more instinctual. I just got the bug and got very driven all of a sudden, which I really wasn’t before. But I’m so happy. It’s all felt very new to me, really.”

Part of the struggle stemmed from being pushed into Hermione-esque roles and the media wondering if she was capable of acting outside that type.

“For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, ‘Will they ever be able to play anything else?’ It gave me a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while, ” she said. “And then a professor told me that they didn’t think I should act, either. So I was really grappling with it and wasn’t feeling good about it. And then, I don’t know … it got so bad and people had put me in a box so much that it started pissing me off. I suddenly wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel, in a way. I’m not sure why that shift happened.”

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“Really, I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset because I was worried I’d never get out again, ” she said in the May 2013 issue of GQ. “I knew it would be a really comfortable thing to do, but I felt … I had to dive into something really different. This has been a really big departure for me; it’s a really big character. That’s so exciting for me because it meant I was really acting.”

It seems that was around the time the former Burberry model made an “adult decision” about her career, instead of resigning herself to having it be made for her.

“I wanted to make a conscious adult decision that this was what I wanted to pursue, because that decision was made for me as a 9-year-old, ” she added. “I had no idea what I wanted. I had no idea who I was, really. So I wanted to step away and make sure this is what I wanted to pour my life and my energy and my blood, sweat and tears into.”

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And that’s precisely what she seems to be doing in her upcoming project, “Noah.” She plays Noah’s adopted daughter Ila in the biblically inspired Darren Aronfsky film, which also stars her “Perks” costar Logan Lerman, plus Anthony Hopkins and Jennifer Connelly. Russell Crowe plays the titular prophet.

Nardine Saad covers breaking entertainment news, trending culture topics, celebrities and their kin for the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 2010 as a MetPro trainee and has reported from homicide scenes, flooded canyons, red carpet premieres and award shows.During the Harry Potter reunion, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, Emma Watson will reveal she wanted to quit the Harry Potter series.

A snippet from the upcoming Harry Potter reunion, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, revealed Emma Watson almost quit the hit franchise at a point. The actor played the role of Hermione Granger in the series.

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Emma was just 11 years old when the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, was released. Over the course of the decade, she played Hermoine in the eight-part series, becoming synonymous to the fictional character.

As reported by Comicbook.com, the reunion episode features Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix director David Yates revealing that during the filming, he was warned by the studio that Emma ‘wasn’t sure if she wants to come back.’

Emma revealed that she was ‘scared’ and lonely at that point of her life. I think I was scared. I don't know if you ever felt like it got to a tipping point where you were like, ‘This is kind of forever now’, she said. It was around the time of Order of the Phoenix when things started getting spicy for all of us, she added.

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The actor explained that fans wanted the cast to succeed but she noticed that the fame had ‘hit home.’ The fame thing had finally hit home – in a big way. No-one had to convince me to see it through. The fans genuinely wanted me to succeed, and they all genuinely have each other's backs. How great is that? she said.

As reported by The Independent, Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy, noted that Emma was ‘by herself.’ “People definitely forget what she took on and how gracefully she did it. Dan (Daniel Radcliffe) and Rupert (Grint) had each other, I had my cronies, whereas Emma was not only younger, she was by herself, ” he said.

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Turns out, not only was Emma contemplating her future in the franchise, her co-star Rupert Grint was also experiencing similar emotions. “I also had sort of similar feelings to Emma, contemplating what life would be like if I called it a day. We never really spoke about it. I guess we were just going through it at our own pace, we were kind of in the moment at the time. It just didn't really occur to us that we were all probably kind of having similar feelings, ” he said.

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will premiere on January 1. The special will stream on HBO Max in the US and Amazon Prime Video in India.