New Interview and Photos with Emma in New York Times

The New York Times has a new interview with Emma in their T-Magazine – Women’s Fall Fashion issue. Emma talks about working on her American accent for Perks, continuing her education and acting, and dealing with fame. The article includes a new photoshoot by Alasdair McLellan.

Daniel Radcliffe Makes His Co-Star Giggle The First Day Of Shooting The F Word

Daniel Radcliffe is venturing into romantic comedy territory for the first time in his career by starring alongside Zoe Kazan in The F Word. The flick is said to be "a story of a young man and woman who struggle to navigate their friendship, which has developed a deep romantic undercurrent." You that means? DanRad is stuck in the "friend zone"! How's a gurl gonna do that to Harry Potter!? Guess we'll figure out when the movie hits theaters sometime next year. The adorable pair just started filming in Toronto on Wednesday and he's already making Zoe smile with what looks like a cheesy, but charming joke of some kind.

New Emma Watson stills from Perks

New stills of Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller from The Perks of Being a Wallflower have been released.

Perks of Being a Wallflower Release Date

Summit Entertainment has announced that Perks of Being a Wallflower will open September 14, 2012 in a limited release. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, author of the book by the same name, the movie stars Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Mae Whitman, Kate Walsh, Dylan McDermott, Nina Dobrev and Paul Rudd. The first trailer for the film will debut during the MTV Movie Awards on June 3. 

 Emma will be presenting at this year’s MTV Movie Awards along with Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller. And she is nominated for three awards this year, including Best Female Performance, Best Cast, and Best Kiss with Rupert Grint for her work in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Voting is open through June 2.

Daniel Radcliffe felt very relieved when 'Woman in Black' did so well at the box office

When asked if he was relieved about the film's success, Daniel said: "Absolutely. Yeah, I've never known, really, what it's like to have a film come out where you feel a lot of pressure around the release. And obviously in 'Potter' it was always a question of how big the film was gonna be. So to have a film where you really don't know how it's going to do opening weekend and where you're being released with a load of other films and you haven't got that massively recognisable brand that obviously 'Potter'. had. So you're gonna have to scrap from recognition among those other films." 

Daniel also says it was very "gratifying" knowing audiences were starting to accept him playing other characters rather than Harry Potter. 

 He told Collider.com: "I think it's a testament to the quality of the movie that people not only went and saw it the first weekend but, particularly in the UK, went back for weeks and weeks to see it. And it was great, and for me personally, to see that people will still come out to support a film that I'm in that is not Harry Potter in that they did was just amazing. And I feel I worked hard on the film, both in the actual filming and then in the promotion of it, so it was lovely to see all that work rewarded. It was very gratifying, actually."

UPDATE: Emma Watson in Bottega Veneta AND Balmain - we’re in love.

Tom Felton 'Flattered' By Emma Watson's Crush

Tom Felton has responded to Emma Watson's claims that the actor was her very first crush, reports Access Hollywood. Felton, who plays Harry Potter villain 'Draco Malfoy', said he was flattered upon hearing the news.

Speaking at the press conference for 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2' in New York City, the actor said, "Very flattering.We're going back a few years here. I heard it through the grapevine". Felton says he and Watson can "laugh about it now", adding, ".but as testament to how long we've been doing this for, I'm pretty sure she was about 9, possibly 10. but yeah, very flattering". The final instalment of the hugely popular movie franchise hits cinemas on 15th July 2011 and Tom said it's been tough leaving his character behind, saying, "It's weird saying goodbye to him. I haven't stepped into Draco's shoes now for over a year-and-a-half and I definitely miss him.He's very different from me, but he's a lot of fun to play. So it's sad to say goodbye to him". Felton, who attended the New York premiere of the final movie on Monday (11th July 2011) has appeared in all eight of the Potter movies.

Tom Felton is set to begin filming the war movie 'Grace and Danger', about allied soldiers who rescue a young woman from a village massacre. The film also stars Tom Sizemore and TOMMY FLANAGAN.

Emma Watson Heading To Oxford, Still Enrolled At Brown

As she wraps up her tenure as Hermione Granger, Emma Watson plans to go back to school -- but this time in the UK.

According to the Mirror, Watson will study at Oxford University's Worcester College this fall. Watson announced that she was leaving Brown University in Rhode Island earlier this year.

Sources at the school told the New York Daily News in April that Watson was often heckled and teased at Brown.

But the young star maintains that she hasn't officially dropped out of the school. "I'm going to Oxford in the fall, to study English for a year," she said at a Harry Potter press conference Monday, according to ABC Action News. "Just to explain, I haven't left Brown. I'm still enrolled at Brown, but I'm doing my third year abroad to study - at home."

Emma Watson's star burns bright

NEW YORK - The Harry Potter film franchise will not go gentle into that good night.

And Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the hugely successful movies, couldn't be happier about the tone of the sign-off.

Opening worldwide July 15, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a rousing finish to an iconic film series, poised to beat The Dark Knight's $158.4-million US opening-weekend record in North America.

"The quality is amazing, and it's darker, and the movie really gave me a chance to stretch myself as an actress," said 21-year-old Watson at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel before the Manhattan Deathly Hallows: Part 2 premiere.

In the David Yates-directed swan song, the action picks up where Part 1 left off. Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) has raided Dumbledore's tomb to obtain the Elder Wand, one of three Deathly Hallows items that will grant him immortality.

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) continue on their journey to locate and destroy the magical Horcrux objects, which contain bits of Voldemort's evil soul.

When their mission leads the trio back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a showdown looms: The eye-popping wand battle between Harry and Voldemort counts as the climactic tour de force.

Part 2 isn't all manic action, however. Images of friends and family from previous adventures show up in ghostly form. So does the dearly departed Dumbledore, who reveals a few secrets.

One Hogwarts scene with Harry, Hermione and Ron near the conclusion was especially emotional for Watson.

"I was able to use a lot of my genuine emotion that I felt about loss, and all of it coming to an end," she said of the series and the sequence.

"The set was actually built looking out over Leavesden Studios, which is where I grew up, essentially. I spent the last 12 years there. So, yeah, not much acting required, really."

On the lighter side, let's not forget the much-discussed kiss between Ron and Hermione, and their blossoming relationship. "Everybody wants to talk about the kiss," she said.

Meanwhile, there is her life after Potter.

The self-confident Watson said she's returning to London to attend Oxford University in the fall, taking a break from her studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

"I haven't left Brown," she said. "I'm still enrolled at Brown, so I'll go back to the States to do my last year."

Besides her duties as "the new face" of Lancome, she has a few non-Potter films on her agenda.

She co-stars in My Week with Marilyn, which stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, and is set to open in November. She also just wrapped the film version of the Stephen Chbosky novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which has Watson playing an against-type party girl.

"Which was just the most incredible experience," Watson said. "I'm very excited about that movie. Having an experience like that outside of Harry Potter is what really convinced me that acting is what I should be doing."

She's even come to grips with the unrelenting fame from the Potter series, including speculation that she was leaving Brown University because of bullying. "Not true," she said.

Mostly, she's lived her life in front of cameras, either acting in Potter productions or promoting the films.

"Once I sort of came to terms with it (fame), it definitely helped me deal with it," Watson said.

Indeed, she's been famous, and a little bit isolated, for longer than she's been anonymous.

"So I feel fortunate, in that I've never really known what it's like to have total freedom. It's not as though I had it and all of a sudden it was taken away from me. Fame's something I grew up with, something that happened gradually, and I haven't really known anything else."

The daughter of British lawyers, Watson moved from Paris to Oxfordshire, England, with her mother after her parents' divorce.

A young Watson attended the Oxford branch of the Stagecoach Theatre arts program, where she performed in amateur productions, but never anticipated what would follow when she auditioned for the role of Hermione.

"We knew almost from the first moment we saw her that Emma was going to be our Hermione," said Potter producer David Heyman.

Now, Watson has made the transition from a nine-year-old girl to a young adult.

"And I have a career, and I've learned how to be an actress, and how films are made, and I still managed to maintain my own sense of identity away from something that potentially could have been overwhelming," said Watson. "So, I guess that I'm glad that I have that. I was quite a stubborn young girl, I guess." Still, the determined actress said she's "a little apprehensive" about the future.

"Change is always scary, but I feel very excited, and I feel like I'm entering a new chapter and getting a fresh start."

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe 'fears fans on London Tube'

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe says a fear of being mobbed means he cannot travel on the London Underground.

The 21-year old actor said as a result he does not know how to use the Tube's electronic Oyster card.

He told the Radio Times there is scene in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix where he tries to put the card though the gates instead of swiping it.

Even though it was a genuine mistake the clip was not edited out as it fitted Harry's character, he said.

"I don't take the Tube, because it can go a bit nuts, and if it goes nuts in a small space that can be a bit weird - so I don't know how to use an Oyster card," he told the magazine.

'Tripped up'
"In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix there's a shot of me and Mark Williams [Arthur Weasley] going through the gates at a Tube station and I try to put my Oyster card through the machine like it's a ticket, rather than swiping it."

Radcliffe, who has a home in London, said: "It's in the film! It makes total sense because of the character of Harry, but that was really by fluke.

"So I'm more likely to get tripped up by something like that, which to everybody else is totally normal."

The actor said of his future: "I'm never going to be as famous as I am today, or as I was a few years ago. That's all going to go away, and I'll be able to just get on with being an actor."

Stars of the Potter films were joined by thousands of fans for the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, the final Potter movie, last week.

The film is on general release on Friday.

Daniel Radcliffe: I’m the only person in the world that doesn’t want an eighth ‘Harry Potter' book

‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe is glad the Harry Potter books and films have come to an end, because the boy wizard’s story finished in a “perfect way".

The 21—year—old actor has starred as the boy wizard in all eight movies in the series, but hopes that the author doesn’t write anymore sequels as he thinks the franchise has finished at the right time, reported Daily Star online.

“I’m the only person in the world that doesn’t want an eighth ‘Harry Potter’ book.

“Believe me, I’ve given 10 years! I think it’s been an amazing 10 years and I would be quite happy for it to finish at this point because the stories were rounded off in such a succinct and perfect way,” said Radcliffe.

Despite his reluctance to return to the franchise, Radcliffe will always be “proud” of his work on the movie series.

“Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn’t for Harry Potter. It would be the height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films,” he said.

Daniel Radcliffe's world is a stage apart from Harry Potter

Harry Potter star tries and succeeds on Broadway

NEW YORK - The Broadway show must go on for Daniel Radcliffe.

In recent interviews with the British media, Radcliffe offered his farewells to the Harry Potter franchise and praised co-star Alan Rickman as an Oscar contender for his role as Severus Snape in the final film. But Radcliffe was missing in action during weekend interviews promoting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, which opens to a great deal of anticipation on July 15.

While mates Emma Watson and Rupert Grint were getting nostalgic over the David Yates-directed Potter finale at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Radcliffe was singing, dancing and emoting 15 blocks away at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

The Tony-nominated musical, which Watson and Grint caught on Saturday night, has been playing to sold-out shows since opening on Broadway in March with Harry Potter's alter ego playing the ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch.

"Dan is so ballsy, just amazing," said Watson, who plays Hermione opposite Radcliffe's Harry and Grint's Ron in the Potter films.

Would Watson like to give it a try? "I would love to do something on Broadway," she said. "I love to sing, but I think I would need to pluck up some more courage."

Grint was impressed with his buddy's abilities on stage, as well. But he's sure that he will stick to film work.

In an earlier video conference with British newspapers, Radcliffe had high praise for his longtime friends performances in Deathly Hallows: Part 2, but singled out Rickman's turn as the tormented Professor Severus Snape.

"I think he (Rickman) should get nominations for best supporting actor because it's so touching and beautiful what he does," said Radcliffe. "I'm really thrilled to share the screen with him."

Potter also called the final instalment of the series "light years" ahead of the rest and said he'd miss certain perks of playing the famous boy wizard.

"I will miss getting to do some of the stuff I get to do as Harry," he said. "I'm not naturally an action hero so it's kind of a gift for a young actor. I got to do a 40 foot free-fall when I was 14! I got to burst out of the water surrounded by a ring of fire! I will never get to do that again."

Meanwhile, the five-foot-six actor is resigned to the fact that he's not the sex symbol Twilight's Robert Pattinson has become (since his cameo as Cedric Diggory in the fourth film, Goblet of Fire).

"There's more of a sexual energy behind Twilight fans," Radcliffe told the British edition of GQ. "Because people have mostly grown up with me, they tend to think of me as an older brother kind of figure."

Sexy or not, he does confess in the magazine that he's dating (Potter Producer David Heyman's stepdaughter Olive Uniacke). "She's just really, really cool and lovely and sane, which is what I'm after."

The 21-year-old Radcliffe was just nine when he was selected from thousands of other hopefuls to star as the boy wizard in 2001's The Philosopher's Stone.

He matured with millions of other fans in the eight films, based on the seven best-selling books by J.K. Rowling. The franchise will likely set worldwide box-office records, potentially earning an estimated $7.5 billion US theatrically.

Promoting Deathly Hallows: Part 1 in London last November, Radcliffe had already moved on, focusing his energies on the How to Succeed musical.

At the time, he said he was confident that his singing would be adequate enough for the Broadway production but he had concerns about his ability to dance.

"Dancing is something that I've never done before," said Radcliffe. "Generally, I've been doing about nine hours a week of (dance) training, so if I screw up it's not through lack of trying."

Based on most reviews of the musical, he hasn't. The Potter cast and crew, who know him intimately, aren't surprised.

Potter director Yates said that his headliner is as single-minded as he is earnest to challenge himself.

"Dan wants to prove he can go beyond the world of Potter," said Yates. "He's desperate to prove there is so much more to him and he has the workaholic appetite, and the ambition, to do just that."

Wisely, Radcliffe had been preparing himself, and fans, for his post-Potter phase long before the Deathly Hallows finale.

He was at his cheeky best playing an over-sexed version of himself in a well-received 2006 episode of the Ricky Gervais' series Extras.

The next year he managed the demanding portrayal of a dysfunctional orphan in the independent feature December Boys, and he starred in My Boy Jack, a TV biopic about Rudyard Kipling's son.

Bravely, he took a huge risk with his occasionally nude role in the 2007 West End revival of the play, Equus, earning the tabloid moniker of "Dirty Harry."

Ironically, that performance led to his gig in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

"It was bizarre," said Radcliffe. "It came about because Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the producers of How To Succeed, came backstage after Equus one night, They said, 'You can sing.' I said, 'Well, I can sing the Milky Bar theme to you,'" Radcliffe told them, referring to a funny moment in Equus.

Still, Radcliffe wasn't convinced he could handle the lead in such a demanding musical, especially on Broadway.

"It's a testament to their persistence," he said of the producers. "Gradually, I started falling in love with it and now I can't imagine myself doing any other thing as my first musical."

 

Emma Watson Covers Harper's Bazaar UK

Like oil and water, Hollywood and Emma Watson do not mix. The Harry Potter actress may be on the verge of the next leg of her career, with the final film due out July 15, but that doesn't mean that she'll be moving to Tinseltown.

The thought of living in the sunny city is apparently scarier than any Death Eater the actress encountered during the eight-movie franchise. "Los Angeles scares the crap out of me," the actress says in the August Harpers Bazaar UK issue.

"If I have to work out four hours a day, and count calories... and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad. I will absolutely lose it," she told the mag.

Watson may portray a good girl gone bad in her photo spread in the mag, opting for a variety of different looks ranging from angelic to down-right gothic, but don't think that her experience playing a witch for years made it easy to achieve those varied looks. She told the mag, “My acting tutor said the hardest thing for me was to get angry. I almost broke down in tears when they tried to get me to be angry. I said, ‘I can’t do it, I just can’t do it.’ I keep all of that really bottled up somewhere and I feel unleashing it would be the scariest thing – and to let myself be powerful, sexy, all those things, it’s scary for me. [Even playing the bad girl in this shoot] felt a bit uncomfortable and awkward, it didn’t come naturally at all.”

Emma Watson's latest interview

‘This just took up my life, all of my time-my life revolved around Harry Potter’

How are you feeling now that the films are coming to a close?

I still don’t really know how I feel about it. I’m still processing it. I have days where I feel relieved, and I have days where I feel very sad. And I have days where I’m like, “I’m so excited.” Because this just took up my life, all of my time—my life revolved around Harry Potter. That was the focal point of my existence. And it’s exciting now that I can accept other things. I mean, I know the grass is always greener, but there were moments when I was making this when I was like, “God, I wish I could go and do that.” So, it’s exciting too. I swing kind of like a pendulum back and forth between all these different emotions.

Is there any particular scene in any of the films that you would like to go back and reshoot, even as a different character?

Ooh, that’s interesting. I actually had a really good time playing the evil Hermione in Ron’s vision, so I’d quite like to go back and play a bad guy for once. I think that would be fun.

You seem to take the media stuff in stride.

It’s experience. I’m 20 years old now and I was nine when I went into my first press conference, so you just get used to it. It takes too much emotional energy to get upset every time something’s written that you don’t want to see. You just have to let it go. I would be a crazy person.

Did you realize that early on?
It took me a while to figure that one out, actually. I mean, I would be lying if I said I didn’t still get upset. I do still get upset. But I don’t care quite so much, which is good. I mean, I still get misquoted all the time. And there’s so much information out there about me, you think it would be very easy to check facts, but …
So would you still think of an acting career, or is it still up in the air for you?
No, definitely, this film’s given me a lot of confidence. I just did a movie called “My Week with Marilyn,” which is a Weinstein production with Eddie Redmayne and Michelle Williams, and that went really well. And I think I will keep acting. I think I’d like to make maybe one movie a year or something.
This movie really gives all of you a chance to really act. What does David Yates bring to that?
The thing about working with David Yates is that you always hear this word, “truth” and finding the truth and being honest and real. He really hates anything false; he wants it to be from the heart. And so I think that made me a better actress.