She wants to break out of her “cage” with a mysterious new film

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The Harry Potter series immortalized Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. And even after that, the actress landed big roles in films like Maybe Tomorrow and Beauty and the Beast. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, but the British woman was private not at peace with her career.

After her last feature film appearance in Little Women in 2019, she therefore withdrew from the film business. But now hers is standing Returning with a new film before, who is supposed to change everything for her.

Why Harry Potter star Emma Watson took a 5-year break from feature films

Emma Watson has not been bored in recent years. She was involved in several charities, looked back on 20 years of Harry Potter in the documentary special Return to Hogwarts, supported her brother’s new CO₂-neutral gin and became the face and creator of a Prada perfume. She recently explained her absence from the film business to the Financial Times for very personal reasons:

If I’m honest, I wasn’t very happy. I felt locked in a cage. What I found particularly difficult was going out and selling something that I didn’t really have a lot of control over. […] It’s hard to be the advocate for something that you weren’t involved in the process of. to be held accountable for without having a saygot me frustrated.

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Harry Potter star Emma Watson in regression

Recognizing her dissatisfaction was the first step for Emma Watson to take control of her life again:

I was beginning to understand that I only wanted to get behind things where, if someone attacked me for doing it, I could say, ‘Yeah, I screwed up. That was my decision and I should have done better.’ That’s the only way I wouldn’t hate myself.

For the Harry Potter star, that meant she had to take action herself. Although Emma Watson didn’t know at first if her Step towards more responsibility behind the camera would succeed:

Even when I was making Harry Potter, people kept telling me I should directing and producing. I worried it was just technical, not creative, and I didn’t have the right skills. Only when [mein jüngerer Bruder] When Alex and friends approached me to ask favors for photo shoots and videos, I realized that I actually know a lot about it. Becoming a director seemed out of reach. I didn’t have any confidence. Which is odd, because I grew up on a movie set. Harry Potter Reboot: Emma Watson’s Mystery Next Movie Set to Change Everything

Meanwhile, Emma Watson has overcome this self-doubt and even one with the Prada Paradox advertising campaign put on a test run: as an actress and director in one. The motto of the perfume brand also symbolizes its way forward: In the clip, it presents itself as “multi-dimensional woman who is never the same and yet always herself”. She no longer wants herself from others “frame” (or lock them up in a cage), but theirs “Celebrating Imperfection”.

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The Financial Times also revealed that Emma Watson preparing a new film, with which she will return as an actress. Possibly even as a director or producer. In any case, it will probably be a narrative that the Harry Potter star can fully relate to.

Filming was last scheduled to begin in early 2024, but otherwise very little is known about the new film. The IMDb linked Emma Watson to two possible projects:

  • While We’re Young is a tragic comedy by Emma Watson’s old director acquaintance Stephen Chbosky (Maybe Better Tomorrow) based on the book Make a Wish * by Adena Halpern: In it, the pensioner Eille Jerome wakes up unexpectedly one day as a 29-year-old – an ideal Watson role after the precocious one Hermione?
  • At Queen of the Tearlings Emma Watson is listed as producer: The adaptation of the fantasy novel Queen of Shadows * by Erika Johansen takes place centuries after a climate catastrophe. A princess must save her impoverished kingdom and reclaim her mother’s throne.

    • Perhaps Emma Watson’s new film is a project that is still completely unknown to the outside world. In the wake of the Hollywood strike, its emergence could be pushed back even further. But even if Emma Watson’s acting break should extend to 6 years, we are eagerly awaiting her career restart.

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