Emma Watson has not been involved in a feature film since filming Little Women in 2018. The doors in Hollywood were open to the actress of Hermione Granger from eight Harry Potter films. In an interview in 2023, the actress revealed why she became rare in the cinema after Beauty and the Beast and Little Women.
Emma Watson felt like she was in a cage
Watson has not been idle in the meantime, she is involved with various fashion brands and she advocates for the rights of abuse victims and trans people. Her projects include a CO₂-neutral type of gin, which she sells together with her brother Alex. That’s why she answered questions in an interview with the Financial Times. In it, Watson talked about her break from acting and explained her withdrawal from the film business as follows:
If I’m honest, I wasn’t particularly happy. I think I felt a bit like I was in a cage.
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According to her own statements, Watson found the task of standing up for films in interviews over which she had little creative influence particularly difficult. That’s why she made a decision:
I realized that I only wanted to advocate for things that, if criticized, I would […] could say, ‘Yes, I messed up, it was my decision. I should have done better.’
Otherwise she would “hate for it”to defend or excuse things for which she was not responsible.
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What does Emma Watson do next?
In 2023, Emma Watson declared her desire to return to the film business. At that time there was talk of a new film that would be shot in early 2024. However, there has been no more concrete information since then.
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Emma Watson may eventually return to the film business as a producer, writer or director. In 2022 she took a first step in this direction. Back then, she was not only the face of a Prada campaign, she also directed the accompanying commercial, wrote the script and acted as narrator.
This article was first published in a similar form on Moviepilot in May 2023.