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Sunday 31 July 2011
Friday 22 July 2011
Press statement from W Bros
The collective Harry Potter films are the highest-grossing franchise of all time, a global record it has held since the success of the sixth film, 2009’s “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Individually, the worldwide grosses for the previous films stand as:
• “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” at $974,755,371
• “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” at $878,979,634
• “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” at $796,688,549
• “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” at $896,911,078
• “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” at $939,885,929
• “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” at $934,416,487
• “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” at $955,417,476.
With “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” still in the first week of its record-breaking run, the Harry Potter film franchise has now crossed the $7 billion mark worldwide, and counting. The announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” has earned an astounding $640.2 million worldwide in its initial week, encompassing $214.9 million domestically and $425.3 million at the international box office.
Robinov stated, “It is an extraordinary privilege for everyone at Warner Bros. to share in this piece of cinema history. We are extremely grateful to the Harry Potter fans, who have remained loyal to the movies for more than a decade. We also want to congratulate the amazing roster of actors and filmmakers, whose artistry and talent is evident in every frame of every film. But special thanks must go to the woman whose incomparable imagination literally changed the world, Jo Rowling.”
Sue Kroll, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Worldwide Marketing, noted, “Each film has inspired us creatively and it has been exciting to watch the evolution through eight remarkable movies. It has truly been the movie event of a generation, as Harry Potter fans who were there from the beginning have been joined by new fans over the years, and their enthusiasm—as well as our own—has never waned.”
Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution, said, “Becoming a $7 billion-plus franchise is a stunning achievement, which is shared by everybody involved in any or all of the Harry Potter films. On the domestic side, the studio is also thrilled to have reached the billion-dollar benchmark for an unprecedented eleventh year in a row. We thank everyone at Warner Bros. whose hard work and dedication have contributed so much to our success.”
Individually, the worldwide grosses for the previous films stand as:
• “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” at $974,755,371
• “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” at $878,979,634
• “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” at $796,688,549
• “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” at $896,911,078
• “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” at $939,885,929
• “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” at $934,416,487
• “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” at $955,417,476.
With “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” still in the first week of its record-breaking run, the Harry Potter film franchise has now crossed the $7 billion mark worldwide, and counting. The announcement was made today by Jeff Robinov, President, Warner Bros. Pictures Group.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” has earned an astounding $640.2 million worldwide in its initial week, encompassing $214.9 million domestically and $425.3 million at the international box office.
Robinov stated, “It is an extraordinary privilege for everyone at Warner Bros. to share in this piece of cinema history. We are extremely grateful to the Harry Potter fans, who have remained loyal to the movies for more than a decade. We also want to congratulate the amazing roster of actors and filmmakers, whose artistry and talent is evident in every frame of every film. But special thanks must go to the woman whose incomparable imagination literally changed the world, Jo Rowling.”
Sue Kroll, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Worldwide Marketing, noted, “Each film has inspired us creatively and it has been exciting to watch the evolution through eight remarkable movies. It has truly been the movie event of a generation, as Harry Potter fans who were there from the beginning have been joined by new fans over the years, and their enthusiasm—as well as our own—has never waned.”
Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. Pictures President of Domestic Distribution, said, “Becoming a $7 billion-plus franchise is a stunning achievement, which is shared by everybody involved in any or all of the Harry Potter films. On the domestic side, the studio is also thrilled to have reached the billion-dollar benchmark for an unprecedented eleventh year in a row. We thank everyone at Warner Bros. whose hard work and dedication have contributed so much to our success.”
Wednesday 20 July 2011
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Thursday 14 July 2011
Tuesday 12 July 2011
Monday 11 July 2011
Press conf transcript
teve Kloves about his first encounter with Emma on set before she was cast:
She was pacing around, very nervous about what she was there for, etc. Just like Hermione.
Emma's interview:
Talk about your last scene as Hermione. What were you filming?
The last show we did was this strange moment where we dive into the fireplace at the Ministry of Magic. It was for Part 1. Dan Rupert and I jumped on one by one.
Yates made the point we were leaping into the unknown. It was the perfect metaphor for what we were about to go into.
Were there any other last moments? Last moment at Hogwarts, etc that stick out in your mind?
This film was incredibly challenging for me. It really pushed me as an actress. It allowed me to feel a lot of genuine emotion about loss, and how I was feeling at the end. Perfect example is when we stand on the bridge after the battle before we flash forward. I just remember really feeling exactly how Hermione was feeling.
What character traits do you share with Hermione?
An earnestness, an eager to please, terrified of getting into trouble. I'm very heady in the same way she is - kind of constantly thinking three or four moves ahead. I try to intellectualize a lot. She's very determined, I am as well. We're both loyal. Bit of a feminist. I will speak my mind.
Is Hermione the first one to be a working mom in a way?
It's so interesting. I think for my mom she was the first generation that said "We really can work." And my mom worked when I was growing up. For my generation we do have the choice to stay at home - which is amazing to have the choice. Hermione has so much knowledge. A thirst for knowledge. She loves words. Being around someone like Hermione must be infectious. I can imagine it wasn't difficult to get her children interested in things when Hermione has such a passion for learning.
Are American tastes and British taste very different (music wise)?
I don't think there's too much different in tastes, in terms of my own tastes. I'm very influenced by my parents. My dad collects records. He loves blues. My mom would plan The Pretenders, Elvis, 10,000 Maniacs. My brother recently has been getting me into classic rock. Tom Petty, The Cars, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, White Stripes. And I also love to dance. I'll listen to Gaga, Rhianna, Everything really. I've been listening to a lot more classical music recently. I love music and I always have music playing if i can. My destressing thing is to put my iPod headphones in and just walk if I need to zone out or calm down. Dan is so ballsy. That kid. Amazing. (referring to his performance in How To Succeed). I'd love to do Broadway. I'd love to sing.. I love singing.
How do you feel you've changed personally over the past 10 years?
It's hard to say because when you go from 9 to 21, it's hard to say what wasn't part of the natural process when a lot of else has happened. I went from being a 9 year old school girl to having a job. I've learnt how to be an actress, how films are made, how to do interviews hopefully (laughs), and I have quite a strong sense of who I am.
Now that the series has ended, which is your favorite?
Part 1 and Part 2 really stand apart from all the rest. The quality, the role, the depth. And how much darker they've gotten gave me a chance to stress myself. For the first many years I didn't feel I was doing much acting at all. I feel I can say I'm an actress now and really believe in that.
What's next for you?
I'm going to travel this summer which I'm really excited about. Change is always scary but I'm excited because I'm entering a new chapter in my life. Traveling this summer, going back to school in the fall, I've got 2 years left to get my degree. I just finished filming the Perks of Being a Wallflower - I had the best experience for 6 weeks filming that. Outside of Potter, that convinced me I should really continue acting. It solidified that for me. And just now reading reading reading. Finding great directors hopefully who will keep teaching me so I can keep learning. I'm excited to be an actress now.
When did you realize you were a huge actress?
It happened when in Bangladesh a boy stopped me and said "you're the girl from Harry Potter." It reaches the farthest, furthest corners of the earth in the least expected places. I was like, "Wow, you REALLY can't go anywhere. This is incredible". The fame became easier to handle once I accepted it. It was a process that happened gradually. I've never known anything else.
In your own life when did you have to put your own bravery to the test?
I feel like young girls are told, I don't know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It's bullshit. You've got to be.. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I'd be a warrior princess definitely. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. While filming Perks of Being A Wallflower.. I was terrified. I was so nervous. New crew, new location, new cast. There's a scene where I have to mimic Susan Saradon and I have to do this dance in front of extras and I felt ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. While filming Perks of Being A Wallflower.. I was terrified. I was so nervous. New crew, new location, new cast. There's a scene where I have to mimic Susan Saradon and I have to do this dance in front of extras and I felt ridiculous.
Which school are you going to?
I'm going to Oxford. I haven't left Brown. I'm doing my third year abroad. I'll go back to the States to do my last year. I took a semester off but I'm still not behind.
She was pacing around, very nervous about what she was there for, etc. Just like Hermione.
Emma's interview:
Talk about your last scene as Hermione. What were you filming?
The last show we did was this strange moment where we dive into the fireplace at the Ministry of Magic. It was for Part 1. Dan Rupert and I jumped on one by one.
Yates made the point we were leaping into the unknown. It was the perfect metaphor for what we were about to go into.
Were there any other last moments? Last moment at Hogwarts, etc that stick out in your mind?
This film was incredibly challenging for me. It really pushed me as an actress. It allowed me to feel a lot of genuine emotion about loss, and how I was feeling at the end. Perfect example is when we stand on the bridge after the battle before we flash forward. I just remember really feeling exactly how Hermione was feeling.
What character traits do you share with Hermione?
An earnestness, an eager to please, terrified of getting into trouble. I'm very heady in the same way she is - kind of constantly thinking three or four moves ahead. I try to intellectualize a lot. She's very determined, I am as well. We're both loyal. Bit of a feminist. I will speak my mind.
Is Hermione the first one to be a working mom in a way?
It's so interesting. I think for my mom she was the first generation that said "We really can work." And my mom worked when I was growing up. For my generation we do have the choice to stay at home - which is amazing to have the choice. Hermione has so much knowledge. A thirst for knowledge. She loves words. Being around someone like Hermione must be infectious. I can imagine it wasn't difficult to get her children interested in things when Hermione has such a passion for learning.
Are American tastes and British taste very different (music wise)?
I don't think there's too much different in tastes, in terms of my own tastes. I'm very influenced by my parents. My dad collects records. He loves blues. My mom would plan The Pretenders, Elvis, 10,000 Maniacs. My brother recently has been getting me into classic rock. Tom Petty, The Cars, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, White Stripes. And I also love to dance. I'll listen to Gaga, Rhianna, Everything really. I've been listening to a lot more classical music recently. I love music and I always have music playing if i can. My destressing thing is to put my iPod headphones in and just walk if I need to zone out or calm down. Dan is so ballsy. That kid. Amazing. (referring to his performance in How To Succeed). I'd love to do Broadway. I'd love to sing.. I love singing.
How do you feel you've changed personally over the past 10 years?
It's hard to say because when you go from 9 to 21, it's hard to say what wasn't part of the natural process when a lot of else has happened. I went from being a 9 year old school girl to having a job. I've learnt how to be an actress, how films are made, how to do interviews hopefully (laughs), and I have quite a strong sense of who I am.
Now that the series has ended, which is your favorite?
Part 1 and Part 2 really stand apart from all the rest. The quality, the role, the depth. And how much darker they've gotten gave me a chance to stress myself. For the first many years I didn't feel I was doing much acting at all. I feel I can say I'm an actress now and really believe in that.
What's next for you?
I'm going to travel this summer which I'm really excited about. Change is always scary but I'm excited because I'm entering a new chapter in my life. Traveling this summer, going back to school in the fall, I've got 2 years left to get my degree. I just finished filming the Perks of Being a Wallflower - I had the best experience for 6 weeks filming that. Outside of Potter, that convinced me I should really continue acting. It solidified that for me. And just now reading reading reading. Finding great directors hopefully who will keep teaching me so I can keep learning. I'm excited to be an actress now.
When did you realize you were a huge actress?
It happened when in Bangladesh a boy stopped me and said "you're the girl from Harry Potter." It reaches the farthest, furthest corners of the earth in the least expected places. I was like, "Wow, you REALLY can't go anywhere. This is incredible". The fame became easier to handle once I accepted it. It was a process that happened gradually. I've never known anything else.
In your own life when did you have to put your own bravery to the test?
I feel like young girls are told, I don't know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It's bullshit. You've got to be.. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I'd be a warrior princess definitely. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. While filming Perks of Being A Wallflower.. I was terrified. I was so nervous. New crew, new location, new cast. There's a scene where I have to mimic Susan Saradon and I have to do this dance in front of extras and I felt ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. While filming Perks of Being A Wallflower.. I was terrified. I was so nervous. New crew, new location, new cast. There's a scene where I have to mimic Susan Saradon and I have to do this dance in front of extras and I felt ridiculous.
Which school are you going to?
I'm going to Oxford. I haven't left Brown. I'm doing my third year abroad. I'll go back to the States to do my last year. I took a semester off but I'm still not behind.
Sunday 10 July 2011
Friday 8 July 2011
Thursday 7 July 2011
Evening standard interview.
New interview of Emma Watson for the Evening Standard
For all the fun she's had on the Hogwarts set, her estimated £24 million fortune, her youth, beauty and modelling contracts, it's hard to envy Emma Watson right now.
In the middle of a frenzy of publicists, stylists, journalists and stray fans at Claridge's hotel, the actress better known as Harry Potter's friend Hermione Grainger is jet-lagged and exhausted, vulnerable, pulled in all directions.
"The scale of the junket for this kind of movie is like, whoah," she says as she catches her breath after being gang-interviewed by foreign press.
Thank God, she doesn't quite say, I won't have to do this ever again.
The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 marks the end of the line for the most successful franchise in movie history. This is the one where Harry has it out with Voldemort and Hermione finally kisses Ron. However, there has also been a secret narrative running through the Harry Potter movies that is just becoming interesting. As her once-cute co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint endured the ungainly mutations of puberty, the once-gawky Watson has become lovelier with each film. You could admit that legally from The Order of the Phoenix onwards.
Now, while Grint advertises milk on the sides of London buses, Watson has been chosen to represent Burberry and Lancôme and graces the cover of American Vogue. Today, she wears a sequined Valentino dress, which she has the habit of scrunching up, then primly smoothing down, when nervous. Her dangling diamond earrings emphasise the pixie haircut she had once the "Hermione hairdressing" clause expired last year. She has a face that would inspire great acts of gallantry.
Poised, clipped, a little melancholy, she describes herself as "pretty emotional" to have reached the end. "It's been 12 years of my life. I think change for anyone is scary. But at the same time, it's exciting for me to watch the last film and think, 'Wow, I've really learned something'."
And what has she learned, at the eye of the £9.3 billion Potter industry? Kissing scenes are awkward, for one. "Having to kiss someone who feels like your brother, it's not ever going to be fun, is it?" she says, a line I suspect she has used before. "We were giggling like schoolchildren. But we were really happy with how it came out. It felt very Hermione and Ron."
Most of all, though, you have to "fight for your life", as former child actor Jodie Foster once put it. "You definitely have to find your voice. You have to say when enough is enough. My mum's always said that I've got grit and that's really helped."
Watson's parents, Jacqueline and Chris, both lawyers, divorced when she was five - she grew up in Oxford with her mother, stepfather, younger brother Alex (now a model) and two stepbrothers.
As the oldest sibling in a complicated family where children were treated as small adults, she learned to be headstrong early.
The film crew too became a surrogate family, from paternalistic producer David Heyman to the women in the make-up department where she fooled around between takes. She counts herself lucky to have made the films in a warehouse in Watford, not amid the madness of Hollywood, and to have had Grint and Radcliffe to share the experience. "Very often there'll be a child doing a movie on their own and they don't have any support."
Everyone involved in the film stresses the measures taken to normalise the situation, ease the pressure, keep them "in the bubble", as she puts it. Still, when I ask whether she would let her own child enter the bubble, the sure tone falters. "Oh, don't ask me that question!" She lowers her eyes, before deciding "no", in a small voice. "I probably wouldn't. If she really, really wanted to do it, then I would just make sure I was with her. I would make sure that she had the supportive family around her that I did."
She seems level-headed enough to deal with the wealth - her biggest extravagance is plane tickets, she says (she recently flew to Masai Mara in Kenya and was relieved that the Masai warriors did not recognise her). Being constantly pestered by kids with camera phones is annoying but liveable, she maintains. But there is something existentially weird about seeing her own image everywhere, on billboards, pencil cases, Lego sets. "I have to bear in mind that it's not me, it's my character. It looks like me; but it's not me. It's Hermione." She repeats it softly, like a spell. "It's Hermione, Hermione, Hermione."
At least she has the opportunity to lie low as Emma Watson in the near future. Having studied for two years at Brown, the Rhode Island Ivy League university, she is starting at Oxford in October.
(Rumours of bullying are far wide of the mark, she stresses; US students often spend their third years abroad). She is playing hard to get with casting directors and there will be no acting after she completes the US indie film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, her first post-Potter role.
"I will be focusing solely on my studies. People were very respectful at Brown of my privacy - and I just hope that will be the same at home." She hopes to live in college and may even do student drama, "if it feels right".
Of the leading trio, it was only Watson who insisted on going to university - and an earnest yearning for adult insights communicates itself clearly now. She was recently blown away by Patti Smith's autobiography; the grim romantic film Blue Valentine left her feeling "physically ill for like three hours afterwards"; when I ask what acting roles she aspires to in future, she says: "I want to work with directors whom I feel I can keep learning from."
But she becomes most engaged when the conversation turns to painting, which she appears pretty good at. "My biggest difficulty is shutting my head up, there's just constant chatter. And [painting] is the one thing that I do where I can just stop thinking and get completely lost in, like, placing that piece of magazine in one of my collages. More and more I'm finding that when everything feels so enormous, when you feel really out of control, having something that you can control, that's small, is really satisfying. It's the little things that keep you sane."
An interviewer from Vogue reported seeing a self-portrait on the wall of her home: it showed her holding a camera, pointing it out to the viewer like a gun. She has decided not to share the sanity collages, however. "The really great actresses are the ones who retain a certain amount of mystique: Meryl Streep - you've got very little idea of what's going on in her life." To the point, when I ask if she is still single, she wriggles, laughs and declines to comment.
As for her status as a style icon, she has no further ambitions to design fashion (she helped create a collection for ethical label People Tree last year) but may continue to model. The Burberry shoot was liberating because "it let people see me as something other than Hermione".
She sees modelling as an extension of acting, in fact - just playing a role - but is conflicted about its demands. "I think the pressure the media and the fashion industry put on women to look a certain way is pretty intense. There's a certain tyranny to trying to achieve that kind of beauty. I don't know, I'm maybe not the best person to speak about this because I obviously completely adhere to it," she laughs nervously. "It's always scary to answer these questions when I'm still trying to figure out how I think about things. So please don't… I don't know…" and the sure turn falters and you remember she's still only 21.
She tells me she has not fully put childish things away either, keeping her wand, time-turner and cloak from the Harry Potter set, though she wishes she could have retained the invisibility cloak.
"That would be super-useful at times."
However, the most valuable souvenir will be her bond with Grint and Radcliffe, who have faced this strange journey with her.
"When all of this dies down, maybe in a year or two, that's probably when we'll need each other the most. We'll be like, 'Am I sane? Did I really remember this right? Did this really happen? Did we really feel this way?' The world will remember it in a different way from how we remembered it. I think we'll need each other to make it all make sense."
For all the fun she's had on the Hogwarts set, her estimated £24 million fortune, her youth, beauty and modelling contracts, it's hard to envy Emma Watson right now.
In the middle of a frenzy of publicists, stylists, journalists and stray fans at Claridge's hotel, the actress better known as Harry Potter's friend Hermione Grainger is jet-lagged and exhausted, vulnerable, pulled in all directions.
"The scale of the junket for this kind of movie is like, whoah," she says as she catches her breath after being gang-interviewed by foreign press.
Thank God, she doesn't quite say, I won't have to do this ever again.
The release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 marks the end of the line for the most successful franchise in movie history. This is the one where Harry has it out with Voldemort and Hermione finally kisses Ron. However, there has also been a secret narrative running through the Harry Potter movies that is just becoming interesting. As her once-cute co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint endured the ungainly mutations of puberty, the once-gawky Watson has become lovelier with each film. You could admit that legally from The Order of the Phoenix onwards.
Now, while Grint advertises milk on the sides of London buses, Watson has been chosen to represent Burberry and Lancôme and graces the cover of American Vogue. Today, she wears a sequined Valentino dress, which she has the habit of scrunching up, then primly smoothing down, when nervous. Her dangling diamond earrings emphasise the pixie haircut she had once the "Hermione hairdressing" clause expired last year. She has a face that would inspire great acts of gallantry.
Poised, clipped, a little melancholy, she describes herself as "pretty emotional" to have reached the end. "It's been 12 years of my life. I think change for anyone is scary. But at the same time, it's exciting for me to watch the last film and think, 'Wow, I've really learned something'."
And what has she learned, at the eye of the £9.3 billion Potter industry? Kissing scenes are awkward, for one. "Having to kiss someone who feels like your brother, it's not ever going to be fun, is it?" she says, a line I suspect she has used before. "We were giggling like schoolchildren. But we were really happy with how it came out. It felt very Hermione and Ron."
Most of all, though, you have to "fight for your life", as former child actor Jodie Foster once put it. "You definitely have to find your voice. You have to say when enough is enough. My mum's always said that I've got grit and that's really helped."
Watson's parents, Jacqueline and Chris, both lawyers, divorced when she was five - she grew up in Oxford with her mother, stepfather, younger brother Alex (now a model) and two stepbrothers.
As the oldest sibling in a complicated family where children were treated as small adults, she learned to be headstrong early.
The film crew too became a surrogate family, from paternalistic producer David Heyman to the women in the make-up department where she fooled around between takes. She counts herself lucky to have made the films in a warehouse in Watford, not amid the madness of Hollywood, and to have had Grint and Radcliffe to share the experience. "Very often there'll be a child doing a movie on their own and they don't have any support."
Everyone involved in the film stresses the measures taken to normalise the situation, ease the pressure, keep them "in the bubble", as she puts it. Still, when I ask whether she would let her own child enter the bubble, the sure tone falters. "Oh, don't ask me that question!" She lowers her eyes, before deciding "no", in a small voice. "I probably wouldn't. If she really, really wanted to do it, then I would just make sure I was with her. I would make sure that she had the supportive family around her that I did."
She seems level-headed enough to deal with the wealth - her biggest extravagance is plane tickets, she says (she recently flew to Masai Mara in Kenya and was relieved that the Masai warriors did not recognise her). Being constantly pestered by kids with camera phones is annoying but liveable, she maintains. But there is something existentially weird about seeing her own image everywhere, on billboards, pencil cases, Lego sets. "I have to bear in mind that it's not me, it's my character. It looks like me; but it's not me. It's Hermione." She repeats it softly, like a spell. "It's Hermione, Hermione, Hermione."
At least she has the opportunity to lie low as Emma Watson in the near future. Having studied for two years at Brown, the Rhode Island Ivy League university, she is starting at Oxford in October.
(Rumours of bullying are far wide of the mark, she stresses; US students often spend their third years abroad). She is playing hard to get with casting directors and there will be no acting after she completes the US indie film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, her first post-Potter role.
"I will be focusing solely on my studies. People were very respectful at Brown of my privacy - and I just hope that will be the same at home." She hopes to live in college and may even do student drama, "if it feels right".
Of the leading trio, it was only Watson who insisted on going to university - and an earnest yearning for adult insights communicates itself clearly now. She was recently blown away by Patti Smith's autobiography; the grim romantic film Blue Valentine left her feeling "physically ill for like three hours afterwards"; when I ask what acting roles she aspires to in future, she says: "I want to work with directors whom I feel I can keep learning from."
But she becomes most engaged when the conversation turns to painting, which she appears pretty good at. "My biggest difficulty is shutting my head up, there's just constant chatter. And [painting] is the one thing that I do where I can just stop thinking and get completely lost in, like, placing that piece of magazine in one of my collages. More and more I'm finding that when everything feels so enormous, when you feel really out of control, having something that you can control, that's small, is really satisfying. It's the little things that keep you sane."
An interviewer from Vogue reported seeing a self-portrait on the wall of her home: it showed her holding a camera, pointing it out to the viewer like a gun. She has decided not to share the sanity collages, however. "The really great actresses are the ones who retain a certain amount of mystique: Meryl Streep - you've got very little idea of what's going on in her life." To the point, when I ask if she is still single, she wriggles, laughs and declines to comment.
As for her status as a style icon, she has no further ambitions to design fashion (she helped create a collection for ethical label People Tree last year) but may continue to model. The Burberry shoot was liberating because "it let people see me as something other than Hermione".
She sees modelling as an extension of acting, in fact - just playing a role - but is conflicted about its demands. "I think the pressure the media and the fashion industry put on women to look a certain way is pretty intense. There's a certain tyranny to trying to achieve that kind of beauty. I don't know, I'm maybe not the best person to speak about this because I obviously completely adhere to it," she laughs nervously. "It's always scary to answer these questions when I'm still trying to figure out how I think about things. So please don't… I don't know…" and the sure turn falters and you remember she's still only 21.
She tells me she has not fully put childish things away either, keeping her wand, time-turner and cloak from the Harry Potter set, though she wishes she could have retained the invisibility cloak.
"That would be super-useful at times."
However, the most valuable souvenir will be her bond with Grint and Radcliffe, who have faced this strange journey with her.
"When all of this dies down, maybe in a year or two, that's probably when we'll need each other the most. We'll be like, 'Am I sane? Did I really remember this right? Did this really happen? Did we really feel this way?' The world will remember it in a different way from how we remembered it. I think we'll need each other to make it all make sense."
HP experience
London - Thousands of die-hard Harry Potter fans from across the world braved the London rain Thursday to witness the world premiere of the final film in the eight-part series.
Hours before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two was set to be launched at a cinema in central London later Thursday, crowds gathered along the red carpet in Trafalgar Square.
'I have loved Harry Potter since the first book came out and it's the end of an era. I want to be here to experience it because it has been a part of our childhood,' said 16-year-old Idun Anduik, who travelled from Bergen in Norway.
'It's really sad. I wish there were more books and more movies,' added her friend, Marie Ones.
'It's kind of the end of our childhood,' said Georgia Giles, 19, from Liverpool. Layne Ahlstrom, 15, who travelled from California, said: 'I will forever love Harry Potter.'
Most of all, those gathered along the red carpet in front of London's National Gallery hope to catch a glimpse of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, the former child stars who launched the record-breaking movie series in 2001.
Watson, now 21, said playing Harry's friend Hermione Granger in the films had changed her life.
'Hermione's been like my sister. She feels so real to me,' she told journalists. 'I will miss being her. She has pushed me and made me a better person.'
However, actor Ralph Fiennes, who plays the evil Voldemort, said he could not wait to take off his robes.
'It was an irritating costume to wear - it was too long and sometimes I would trip over,' revealed the Oscar-winning actor.
The films, based on the seven-sequel book series, have made the young actors, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling, multi-millionaires.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was split into two parts for the screen version, is due to go on general release on July 15.
Hours before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two was set to be launched at a cinema in central London later Thursday, crowds gathered along the red carpet in Trafalgar Square.
'I have loved Harry Potter since the first book came out and it's the end of an era. I want to be here to experience it because it has been a part of our childhood,' said 16-year-old Idun Anduik, who travelled from Bergen in Norway.
'It's really sad. I wish there were more books and more movies,' added her friend, Marie Ones.
'It's kind of the end of our childhood,' said Georgia Giles, 19, from Liverpool. Layne Ahlstrom, 15, who travelled from California, said: 'I will forever love Harry Potter.'
Most of all, those gathered along the red carpet in front of London's National Gallery hope to catch a glimpse of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, the former child stars who launched the record-breaking movie series in 2001.
Watson, now 21, said playing Harry's friend Hermione Granger in the films had changed her life.
'Hermione's been like my sister. She feels so real to me,' she told journalists. 'I will miss being her. She has pushed me and made me a better person.'
However, actor Ralph Fiennes, who plays the evil Voldemort, said he could not wait to take off his robes.
'It was an irritating costume to wear - it was too long and sometimes I would trip over,' revealed the Oscar-winning actor.
The films, based on the seven-sequel book series, have made the young actors, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling, multi-millionaires.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was split into two parts for the screen version, is due to go on general release on July 15.
Wednesday 6 July 2011
To those in the UK
The UK's ODEON Cinemas will be showing all seven Harry Potter films over seven nights, beginning on the 8th July until the 14th July, just in time for the release of the eighth film on the 15th July. "You can book one, or all seven of the Harry Potter films - so don’t miss out, let Harry Potter cast its spell over you once again..." and, adds the ODEON website:
Tickets for these 7 Harry Potter films are now priced at only £3! Additional charges will apply for 3D tickets and Premiere seating. If you have already purchased your tickets you can claim a refund on the difference in ticket price. To claim your refund, take your booking confirmation to the ODEON Box Office or call 0800 88 89 50 between 11am - 8pm and speak to an operator.
The following cinemas will be taking part in the Harry Potter marathon:
Bath
Blackpool
Bournemouth
Bracknell
Braehead
Brighton
Cardiff
Chelmsford
Coventry
Dunfermline
Greenwich
Guildford
Hatfield
Kettering
Kingston
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool One
London - West End
Manchester Printworks
Mansfield
Metrocentre
Newcastle East - Silverlink
Norwich
Oxford George Street
Tunbridge Wells
Uxbridge
Warrington
Wimbledon
Wrexham
Tickets for these 7 Harry Potter films are now priced at only £3! Additional charges will apply for 3D tickets and Premiere seating. If you have already purchased your tickets you can claim a refund on the difference in ticket price. To claim your refund, take your booking confirmation to the ODEON Box Office or call 0800 88 89 50 between 11am - 8pm and speak to an operator.
The following cinemas will be taking part in the Harry Potter marathon:
Bath
Blackpool
Bournemouth
Bracknell
Braehead
Brighton
Cardiff
Chelmsford
Coventry
Dunfermline
Greenwich
Guildford
Hatfield
Kettering
Kingston
Leicester
Lincoln
Liverpool One
London - West End
Manchester Printworks
Mansfield
Metrocentre
Newcastle East - Silverlink
Norwich
Oxford George Street
Tunbridge Wells
Uxbridge
Warrington
Wimbledon
Wrexham
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Emma's tv schedules
Upcoming Events
July 4-6
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 London press junkets.
July 5
Daybreak, on ITV at 6 and 7 am
Newsround, on CBBC at 7:40 and 8:15 am
July 7
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 premiere in London. Cast are scheduled to arrive at 4pm.
ABC Family Harry Potter Weekend begins. Promises never-before-seen footage.
July 10
A Larry King Special – Harry Potter: The Final Chapter, interviews with the trio on CNN and CNN International at 8pm and 10pm
July 11
The Today Show, 7am on NBC.
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 premiere in New York. The cast are scheduled to arrive at 5pm.
Late Show with David Letterman, 11:35pm on CBS.
July 12
LIVE! with Regis and Kelly, at 9 on various affiliates.
July 4-6
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 London press junkets.
July 5
Daybreak, on ITV at 6 and 7 am
Newsround, on CBBC at 7:40 and 8:15 am
July 7
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 premiere in London. Cast are scheduled to arrive at 4pm.
ABC Family Harry Potter Weekend begins. Promises never-before-seen footage.
July 10
A Larry King Special – Harry Potter: The Final Chapter, interviews with the trio on CNN and CNN International at 8pm and 10pm
July 11
The Today Show, 7am on NBC.
Deathly Hallows: Part 2 premiere in New York. The cast are scheduled to arrive at 5pm.
Late Show with David Letterman, 11:35pm on CBS.
July 12
LIVE! with Regis and Kelly, at 9 on various affiliates.
Sunday 3 July 2011
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