Emma Watson has revealed how she struggled to adjust to Hollywood after Harry Potter.
The British actress has taken a significant step back from acting since 2019’s Little Women, and in the past couple of weeks has participated in a couple of interviews about her self-imposed exile.
Last week, Watson said she found the process of selling a movie “soul-destroying.” Now, in an appearance on Jay Shetty’s On Purpose podcast (see video below), Watson became emotional recounting her experience of film sets post-Potter.
After playing Hermione Granger for 12 years, she said the J.K. Rowling franchise gave her a warped perspective of the bonds created through filmmaking.
“I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that the people I worked with were going to be my family, and that we were going to be lifelong friends,” she explained.
“I came to work looking for friendship. And that was a very painful experience for me, outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood, bone-breakingly painful, because most people don’t come to those environments looking for friendships.”
Watson continued: “They’re looking for: ‘This is my chance. This is my role. This is what I want out of it. I’m focused. This is my job. This is my career.’ I was not of that mindset.” In a tearful moment, Watson said the shattering of her expectations “broke” her: “In a way, I’m proud that it did, because I guess that means I have something left to break.”
During the same interview, Watson opened up about her rift with Rowling over transgender rights. She told Shetty that Rowling’s views were “really painful,” but she could never cancel the author from her life. “It’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with,” she said.
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