Emma Watson; Ben Fordham
THE HONEST ‘HARRY POTTER’ STAR COINS A NEW PHRASE
EMMA WATSON WAS JUST 9 WHEN SHE was cast as wand-waving Hermione Granger in the mega successful Harry Potter movie franchise, but her instant mega-fame led to feelings of doubt, she revealed this week.
“I’ve sat in therapy and felt really guilty about it,” she told activist Paris Lees in an interview for British Vogue. “I’m like, why me? Somebody else would have enjoyed and wanted this aspect of it more than I did. I’m like, I should be enjoying this a lot more, I should be more excited and I’m actually really struggling.”
However, the actress, whose two-year relationship with entrepreneur William Knight, ended in 2017, also says she’s ‘very happy’ being single, or, as she calls it, ‘being self-partnered’.
Watson, 29, also claimed her success left her disconnected from her family. But she has since found peace by remembering her identity. “I am someone’s daughter. I am my mother’s daughter, I am my father’s daughter, I am a sister. I belong to a family. I come from a place, I have roots.”
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Watson has starred in 2012’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast remake in 2017, and will soon appear in a remake of Little Women.
The actress, who turns 30 in April, said she was ‘stressed and anxious’ about reaching the milestone.
“I was like, ‘Why does everyone make such a big fuss about turning 30? This is not a big deal’. Cut to 29, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I feel so stressed and anxious’. And I realise it’s because there is suddenly this bloody influx of subliminal messaging around.
“If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out ... there’s just this incredible amount of anxiety.”
Watson was pictured with Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) in South Africa earlier this year, sparking rumours they were dating.