Emma Watson
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is the youngest of her Harry Potter co-stars. Born on the 15th April 1990 in a busy town of Oxfordshire, England, Emma's parents Chris and Jaqueline (now divorced) are both lawyers. Emma moved to France with her parents shortly after she was born, and lived there until the age of five, when she moved back to England.
Although Emma possesses many of the qualities of her Harry Potter character Hermione, the one thing she has which Hermione does not is a younger brother, Alex, who is three years her junior. Bright, intelligent, funny and charming, Emma often enthuses about her role of Hermione in the films. She has taken the character to heart, and has also made Hermione the heroine of the trio, making her wildly popular amongst fans.
Emma started out acting in school plays like Dan and Rupert. She starred in school productions of "Arthur: The Younger Years," "The Swallow and The Prince," "The Happy Prince" and "Alice in Wonderland." Attending the Dragon school, which is one of the top boarding and day prep schools in the UK, gave Emma the advantage of a rigorous schedule, so she was well prepared for the schedule of the Harry Potter films.
In school Emma gained accolades such as first prize in The Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition at the young age of seven. Minus the acting experience at school, Emma had no professional training and so was just another hopeful when she first went to audition for the role of Hermione. The casting directors must have noticed the unique qualities that Emma possessed and must have known that she was the only young actress who would be able play the character of Hermione.
Though she may have been the natural choice for the casting directors, Emma couldn't believe her luck when she learned she had successfully landed the part of Hermione. She describes when she found out: "I rang my best friend, just as I'd been told, literally minutes after I'd been told, I rung my friend and she answered and she said: 'So have you got it?' And I said: 'Yes.' And she screamed - she literally just went arghhh - it was like five minutes, I had to hold the phone here, not to be able to break my ear and she was so excited she was almost more excited than me."
Emma was another fan of the Harry Potter books, and so when it came to filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, she was naturally anxious that her performance reflect Hermione perfectly. Emma also spoke of her excitement in seeing the sets the Harry Potter crew had built, "I think the best thing which I was looking forward to seeing from the book was just the outlook from the whole of the school because it describes in the book coming over in a boat across the river to Hogwarts and just the first view - that took us ages, we had to keep going ahh, wow, ooh - a bit like watching fireworks going off, it was like ooh, eee, ahh, ooh."
Of course, Emma had to hold her own against her other two co-stars who were both boys. And she did it fantastically. Some of the key scenes for Emma's character in the first film included the Troll scene (which she listed as her favourite), and of course her scenes with Ron. She said of this, "I liked the line at the end where I said: 'I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled!' And another one was where I said: 'Honestly you're going to take someone's eye out!' Hermione always has some really snooty lines for Ron, I think Ron gets the worst of it really."
It was important for all of the trio to make an impact on their characters in the first film but this seemed no problem for any of the trio, least of all Emma, whose portrayal of Hermione provided fantastic chemistry with Daniel's and Ron's characters.
Of course, the media madness which came hand-in-hand with the first Harry Potter movie helped the cast to bond, and a such a good experience was had on the set of the first film that there was nothing but sheer excitement for returning to film Chamber of Secrets.
When asked what part of CoS she was most looking forward to, Emma replied, "The thing I'm looking forward to most in the second film is probably how they're going to make me look like a cat, that'll be very interesting."
Although Emma possesses many of the qualities of her Harry Potter character Hermione, the one thing she has which Hermione does not is a younger brother, Alex, who is three years her junior. Bright, intelligent, funny and charming, Emma often enthuses about her role of Hermione in the films. She has taken the character to heart, and has also made Hermione the heroine of the trio, making her wildly popular amongst fans.
Emma started out acting in school plays like Dan and Rupert. She starred in school productions of "Arthur: The Younger Years," "The Swallow and The Prince," "The Happy Prince" and "Alice in Wonderland." Attending the Dragon school, which is one of the top boarding and day prep schools in the UK, gave Emma the advantage of a rigorous schedule, so she was well prepared for the schedule of the Harry Potter films.
In school Emma gained accolades such as first prize in The Daisy Pratt Poetry Competition at the young age of seven. Minus the acting experience at school, Emma had no professional training and so was just another hopeful when she first went to audition for the role of Hermione. The casting directors must have noticed the unique qualities that Emma possessed and must have known that she was the only young actress who would be able play the character of Hermione.
Though she may have been the natural choice for the casting directors, Emma couldn't believe her luck when she learned she had successfully landed the part of Hermione. She describes when she found out: "I rang my best friend, just as I'd been told, literally minutes after I'd been told, I rung my friend and she answered and she said: 'So have you got it?' And I said: 'Yes.' And she screamed - she literally just went arghhh - it was like five minutes, I had to hold the phone here, not to be able to break my ear and she was so excited she was almost more excited than me."
Emma was another fan of the Harry Potter books, and so when it came to filming Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, she was naturally anxious that her performance reflect Hermione perfectly. Emma also spoke of her excitement in seeing the sets the Harry Potter crew had built, "I think the best thing which I was looking forward to seeing from the book was just the outlook from the whole of the school because it describes in the book coming over in a boat across the river to Hogwarts and just the first view - that took us ages, we had to keep going ahh, wow, ooh - a bit like watching fireworks going off, it was like ooh, eee, ahh, ooh."
Of course, Emma had to hold her own against her other two co-stars who were both boys. And she did it fantastically. Some of the key scenes for Emma's character in the first film included the Troll scene (which she listed as her favourite), and of course her scenes with Ron. She said of this, "I liked the line at the end where I said: 'I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled!' And another one was where I said: 'Honestly you're going to take someone's eye out!' Hermione always has some really snooty lines for Ron, I think Ron gets the worst of it really."
It was important for all of the trio to make an impact on their characters in the first film but this seemed no problem for any of the trio, least of all Emma, whose portrayal of Hermione provided fantastic chemistry with Daniel's and Ron's characters.
Of course, the media madness which came hand-in-hand with the first Harry Potter movie helped the cast to bond, and a such a good experience was had on the set of the first film that there was nothing but sheer excitement for returning to film Chamber of Secrets.
When asked what part of CoS she was most looking forward to, Emma replied, "The thing I'm looking forward to most in the second film is probably how they're going to make me look like a cat, that'll be very interesting."
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