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and a host up behind the scene on e w radio here on Sirius XM 105 and with latest film is Disney's Beauty and the Beast the live-action version of the classic cartoon that we've all watched it's out nationwide on Friday March 17th thank you for joining us Emma and if this interview goes badly the fair warning you will all be transformed into pots and pans and house we have to live in the serious office for a decade and so we can fix things Emma I want in our conversation for the magazine you talked about something that I would love to explore a little further Belle boot camp yeah singing horseback riding dancing these were all things you said you were not an expert in before you began work on this film so tell us about what Belle boot camp involved so yeah I mean if it's crazy for me to think now but you know at the beginning of this process I had never ridden a horse before I had never sang in a movie before I'd certainly never done you know a Strictly Come Dancing ask for minute you know full-on waltz so um that was quite a lot that I had to yeah I just had to learn we really start from scratch on and it's so fun to do a movie when you get to at the end of it you get to take away new skills and with you so that was pretty cool yeah how much how long did that process last the before the film was three months a full three months of singing lessons three or four times a week writing three or four times a week and dancing full-time going you sing the songs from the movie are you stretching your voice and strengthen your voice listen accessories ah see that and actually and my singing teacher had me sing other Disney songs so I actually started off learning and singing songs from Pocahontas and Aladdin and because there's kind of a really interesting kind of Disney kind of what I would call it like so it could style exactly and which is kind of in between classical and sort of theatrical music and pop it kind of fits in that middle place between the three different genres and so you kind of serve them with like a there's a different tone bring to that so yeah I sang two different songs yeah you already have them memorized I didn't have I didn't have very many married surface I'm really I mean it's pretty amazing to actually do a piece of work where you're like oh my own you know this guy like it too as a child you kind of just a little bit old forth nurses like yeah yeah my children can almost recite Beauty and the Beast like they could perform it just a little too little boy and girl one to girl oh yeah yeah so Dan Stevens is your co-star as he plays the Prince the Beast yeah what are you looking at when you're shooting this we see him in the fully rendered beast mode right but what is he what does he look like when you're acting in real life with him so where we ended up because we try to the beginning of the movie to put down and for prosthetics and all of that and eventually we decided that we would then be a 3d of special effects so the way they did it was that we would shoot the scene together and he would be in kind of a suit which would give him the size and shape of the beast and then we would go in and you would shoot our scenes again later and they would they would it's called motion capture his facial expressions and they'd use those facial expressions to animate what would become the Beast later on so it was a pretty complicated process 2-step process but for me it was wonderful because when I when I work very saucer or elated other movies to have special effects usually I get like a tennis ball I get like an LED light or I got you know like an x marks the spot and that's why I'm thanking with so you actually haven't acted out with me on set it was kind of a luxury so what's not a skirt was great would he be in costume they was doing costume it was really for the animators it was to kind of get the size and shape of the base and so he was in kind of a gray lycra muscle suit that's the best mechanism in it any of them still but he wasn't very rainy yeah yeah Zoe said little god yeah yeah Johnson he was like a muscled up it is like the gear the camera gear like sometimes they have a light and a camera on their face to record yeah no he's no dangling cameras or anything like that I mean he was pretty unencumbered - he knows which we did the dolphin I would like to point out we did that for worlds with Dan in like proper kind of hide in there how many inches probably like three or four-inch sort of steel still no yeah because when you think of what you know when you think about the Dan so it was challenging students but to do it with someone that's trying to balance and is wearing this kind of big ungainly suit it's yeah it's challenging yeah what was beef boot camp like you have any sense of that the attempt was I think mostly figuring out the pastels and the food and how everything was going to translate and I think Dan Jen like me had never fun for a movie before so both of us were really get ripped with the singing aspect of things so the other beings in the castle you have a madam guard robe the Wardrobe played by Audra McDonald you have Lumiere played by using McGregor Cogsworth is Ian McKellen this is Potts of course is Emma Thompson you're acting with these objects and they're digitally created for the film but what are you working with a similar question what you did with Dan there in that case are you working with the tennis ball are you working with the light or they're real puppetry yes nice to the household objects were just like was just a teapot which was later the animation and sadly we didn't have the actors down set for those bits so I was either reacting to a voice recording or I was all bill would be really mine for a teapot or or whatever else so it was a bit kind of cobbled together you know especially seems like BR gas yeah where I'm sat at the table and all of this stuff is happening in front of me I mean it's one thing figuring out how to kind of be in a scene with something that isn't there but when they're like it's a candlestick and it's doing a backflip and it's doing this and then it does this like oh my god how how am I going to kind of remember all of youth interpret different step smells crazy stuff that's going on and make it look as if I'm really reacting to it especially when it's so specific he's tasting the he's tasting the dish I was doing this or doing that so it was um I've seen took forever I have to say in order for you for me for all the things of all the scenes in the movie now with the killer food are four weeks trying to get that right and it's just so frustrating because it's so such an intangible you know you just have enough things are going to go on and Belle's role in that is somewhat passive she's the audience you're performing okay not like there's much you can do besides react I really just thought that you know trying to react to what I'm supposedly going on so yeah was there any puppetry involved no puppetry um no I thought maybe the Wardrobe might have been oh I think that's Laurie no the Wardrobe I'm sure in the end I guess but she is kind of the water-filled belongs and Belle's bedroom what becomes Belle's bedroom and that was a kind of animatronic wardrobe that would do had various different things that it could do what look what was well it was interesting it it could kind of like shift to and to and fro and some of the drawers would open and close the mouth would move like little things like that but yeah but at least I had you know something to to retain little life so you mentioned your work on the Harry Potter films prepared you for this what you've done a lot of acting opposite visual effects what are some of the more surreal experience with even maybe from the past that you've just felt it's almost becomes absurd when you come - but you know like you say having to act the tennis ball or finish games were pretty absurd for because that was all green screen and what you essentially have is an ad in assistant director with a microphone who is essentially narrating the action so your students stand and they're saying you know and Slytherin scores and so everyone has to like pretend as though that's going on they count different and because because the Quidditch players are moving so quickly they'd be reading so you have like numbers that you follow it's like kind of like drawing the dots which will sort of create the action I want to enable five six seven eight a nice cool and then this happens so you cannot leave brain kind of feels a bit frazzled because you're you know you're trying to play along into something that was Peter acting yeah right yeah let's extension of disbelief yeah was there anything you saw in the finished version of Beauty and the Beast that surprise you sometimes I'll talk to actors and they'll say oh that's what that's what we were doing effect like they didn't fully grasp it as the director explaining it but then when they see and sometimes things change in post-production was there anything that surprised you when you thought gosh uh trying to think you know I think really as I said before this that was so much it was I mean I just had something for real so in a sense like you know there was a good dose of it knowing what was going to it like that and I mean really done Beast seeing that kind of over the process of movie you know between the final cut and the first time period I saw and just remarkable what they achieved with making him so real and human and alive and and whatever else I think that was the biggest kind of wow this is really happening before my eyes and looks amazing so we I'll just do a little reset here you're listening to the serious townhall LBW radio sirius XM 105 we're talking with Emma cot Emma watchman about not miss Potts name Emma Watson about the new beauty in the Beast film we've talked a lot about the independence of Belle which i think is a fundamental part of the 1991 animated film but you felt like there was a need to it 20 years later to add a little more to the to this story partly because it's a new that you're giving it a new dimension literally a new dimension yeah talk to me about the the changes that you feel this movie x2 the character of Belle in terms of strengthening her yeah I mean you know it's always a collaboration you always you always get given a script and then the directors who has very strong ideas and then and then you try and shift things a little bit as an actor in the direction of of how you enlighten the character but um it's always it's always a bit of a tussle but I think and obviously the original sober love you know you don't want to you know want to mess with something that's pretty damn near perfect so you know I think it was a case of me there was really thing taking an animated character and making her a real life reading person with her costume because in the original she wears I mean so elegant that the outfit but you know she wears little ballet shoes and she has her little basket with her white napkin in it and you know in our bill does a ton of horse riding and I immediately when I saw the sketch and I thought I'm not sure I'm not sure I was going to buy that that she's going to be able to you know race into the forest and go and save beasts and in a pair of ballet shoes just it's people aren't going to feel and I think that's very important when you're doing fantasies is to make sure that the audience only has to suspend its disbelief for a few moments I think if if you're constantly undergoing this just doesn't feel authentic I think it wears quickly and anyway so I put Belen in like muddy riding boots and we hitched up one side of her skirt and she will bloom it underneath will she get off up and off the horse easily I gave her kind of like a tool belt which she could carry her books around in and she could she's kind of an inventor in our story she could carry her tools and and whatnot as opposed to like you know the basket with you again with a horse or something's going on just not very practical so small things like that and then you know we had to talk to explore a bit more okay so what happened to Fell's mother what does she do with her spare time little things like that she hasn't used some bracing song as well so we kind of patted out a bit more of her backstory too which was really fun what I like is that she's not just a character who likes to disappear into books she's interested in their educational value and this is her engineering skills to create the washing machine so that she could free up the other little girls who are not being taught yeah well we see the little boys marching into the classroom the girls are given laundry to do no yeah you pointed out last time actually that's the village is very anti anti intellectual anti books very anti young women specifically getting to learn and yeah the she didn't in our story she's an activist in her own community she's not just she's not just pushing herself forward she's trying to bring people with her and I think that's one of the reasons why the village turn on her so much is that they don't like that she's she's progressive essentially she's she she's trying to take things forward and they don't think you know change isn't working never is never ask for politely it's gotta be bacon yeah I know that this is an important topic to you and I know the Disney films are also very special to you the classic ones would go back decades and we're talking about updating a film that only you know was only made in 1991 yeah so it's about 25 years old and we've got this we've got films that go back 60 70 years now so many of those films are much more about finding your prince charming literally finding this charming but as a fan of those is there a way you would say you know parents should talk to their little kids who do love when there are things to still love about them not that they should be turned away but special I mean I think that for me just because in our story for example the way that things are moving the princess isn't waiting to be rescued by the prince or they're not looking for that Prince Charming I don't think that should mean that the romance is dead and I think that's really love so much about the film is that it it really does celebrate it's unapologetically romantic I mean it really is and I think that is to be that is to be celebrated I think in the world of like comes tinder and dating out somewhere else we need an hour so um I knew I guess I would just say that you know I think with your stories used to be very gentle specific in the sense of girls supposed to wait for boy boy to you know and I think playing around with play around with those gender roles and the assumptions based on who should be doing what and how all of that should be playing out um clips those really relevant and and you know I think I don't both sections and genders you need and would like a bit of rescuing yeah you talk about romance and there's a there's something in the film that is controversial to some but to me again is the father of two little kids I really love there's this talk of like a gay story a gay love story in this which really is it comes down to a couple of smiles and like a partial dance but the foo has a crush on Gaston Josh GAD character has this sort of like my failed affection yeah I know I think that's what's so fantastic about Josh's performance is that it's so subtle it's worth like Jessie idly skin so on exam love like Gaston like what is kind of what's the relationship there and I think it's it's incredibly subtle to be perfectly honest I don't want people going into this movie thinking that there's like a huge sort of narrative that there really isn't it's incredibly subtle and it's kind of a play on on having you audience go in it and then in and I think it's fun I mean I think that it's sort of I love the ambiguity but it's pretty it's interesting the whole movie though I think takes an effort to expand its horizons a little bit as it's not it's said in the South of France but it's not like the village is full of of white characters you have a sort of multicultural population and when I talk to the director Bill Condon about this he said well you know it could be that they came from Morocco like there's the player there's some logic to it but also it's a movie about a girl who falls in love with a man who's magically been transformed into a beast and has handled friends like maybe we could suspend disbelief a little bit more to just say all sorts of people greatly in this village you know ultimately these part from these roles fairy tales in general are full of awful archetypes and mombasa themes and each time of each time a new generation tells these stories they use these fairy tales of a mirror for their own society and their own culture and we live in a diverse culture and society we live in a global world and I think Bill thought that was very important that the film represented that diverse society represents of the rule from the global world that we live in and and yeah and that's that's why our movie does that so it Wednesday was International Women's Day and you're acting with the United Nations he for she program and we've already discussed it very important to you how did you spend the day so I spend the day book ninja ring which is my which is which is the way that I describe it actually there's a double organization I work with called acornsoft book fairies and but I did five different book drops around iconic for feminist locations in New York so I won and I left books next to the Gertrude Stein statue the Eleanor Roosevelt for Joan of Arc and the blue stockings library sorry books blue toxins and radicals bookstore and I was one more showing missing or Gloria Steinem oh I did that an evening but yeah so I was I was busy I was running around all over town yeah it's really fun very fun let's go ahead and I lost at the kind of kind of the kind of thing now a few people who formally like you're doing the thing you live in the book yes yeah so it's nice because you know I think sometimes people see the books my life I must be for someone else or whatever else the people no forgot it yeah whatever so people are picking it up now and then more curious and and and whatever so it's nice I saw a headline that said Emma Watson is leaving books all over the world and I thought when did she get Santa Claus powers I know fun helpers all around the world I'll bury all kind of the first foot drop and I started getting letters from all over the world being like come and do it and you know Dubai can't do it in Japan alone so I'm Cordelia and I think you who helps me helps me do it we sort of coordinated this international book drop where we had volunteers from every country and we send in book and anyone unless Moroni was unlovable we actually managed to do 26 different countries around the world so really fun what is the bunny your any fun I know I'm coming from you know I'm asking your job what were the books that you the other the same but previously but I would leave books for that specific month of life but club whatever our book club choice was we actually left books from from you know the last six or seven months we 3r s six or seven different feminist titles that had Gloria steinem's you brought my life on the road we had Caitlyn Moran's how to be a woman we had the color purple by Alice Walker Persepolis and so yeah we left a range of different a different one we call you foresee yourself continuing this in the future or it seems like you enjoy it I do it's really fun it the civil disobedience is fun date I shouldn't be advertising that but yeah it was a no as long as as long as people keep asking and volunteering I'm zip it down to keep what are you reading at the moment I know you have our shared shelf is your book no my friend gave me for Christmas and she she's a psychiatrist and she gave me man's search for meaning buying effective wrinkle which is pretty amazing but it's got some pretty heavy something I said but it's actually surprisingly sort of readable and it's actually it's actually very short but yeah loved it really loved it some really good really good words of wisdom in there sorry sorry clever man yeah when we spoke last time it was a few days before the women's March and he participated in and I saw some photos of you out were you with your mother where did you where did you March which city were you in wash I agree States Washington DC which was actually amazing because it was it was her who messaged me saying now when we put in flight safety I was like wow I gotta Cologne yeah radical mom love it yeah she was her first-ever protest with my first of approaches and I think we love that it just felt so there was something actually in the energy that fell very celebratory it felt very celebratory of the work that we've done that we continue to do it felt really truthful and I loved it I love the age ranges as well like lots of very young kids for all the way through to you know grandmas marching for that round orphans like it was very cross generational and very peaceful and yeah very very joyful in its own way you know like serious but you know I think it also had a great sense of humor which is key it's absolutely key why is that so important I think you're right but yeah I think as long as no one is to end something about you to me which speaks to humility which which speaks to yeah to being humble to being human to get such a way to connect people and I think as long as you're not taking yourself too seriously you can go to very wrong they wouldn't win L so this is the case of fear you don't laugh when you're afraid I think it's a sign of strength a hundred percent 100 percent and yeah it's a if you if you can find the funny side of things and if you can laugh together in there in very difficult moments and you know as you say I don't have a lot that can that can totally stop you or tear you down Sabrina Brazilian and unit unity - there anybody seen a comedy and a movie theatre knows you're fun to laugh in a whole room full of people but I do not the line exactly so we're talking with Emma Watson here on Sirius XM entertainment weekly radio about her new film beauty and beast and but also you've got a lot on the horizon in your future one of the films coming up in just over a month into the circle comes out on April 28th this is based on a book by Dave Eggers I believe you wrote the screenplay - yeah directed by James puntal yeah co-stars Tom Hanks you play a young woman who's part of a new tech company a pioneering organization let's can you tell us about the story of the circle is sorted kind of about why not about film is that it could point me now it's not set as the kind of like future dokyun world it's sort of like okay we're in check out let's say we're in 2017 I'm going to imagine that all of these big tech companies became one kind of huge conglomerate and and what would happen if they had the monopoly on our personal information so I'm really not very science fictiony at all it what that would mean for democracy without enforceable rights what that would mean for you know it's um what that would mean is kind of like it's a relationship it's a relationship is kind of George Orwell's 1984 but written for now what would happen if this started to happen tomorrow and it's really interesting because I kind of it juggles what private whatnot what personal information what should people be able to access not access and it yeah it deals with all of that and it's interesting because we made the movie before the election but actually I think now that the election has happened I think film really are the interesting what people think about because I think it it kind of and it speaks so much to what is going on right now it's also about self surveillance isn't it it's about how you behave when you're being watched and in a way we already do that we tweet about where we are we Instagram what about where we are Facebook updates it reminds me of like years ago our you know nieces would have to text their mom and dad to say whether there was a football game or where they were and and and now it's like yeah now we do that sort of you don't even have to be asked you voluntarily give out your coordinates everything missus I think also it looks at the effect of constantly being so self-aware and always being ready to smile for a picture always ready to be on camera always ready to share a detail of your life and to be constantly kind of like curating your life whether it be like why you in for breakfast through to what you're saying to a friend and they're kind of like paranoia and that that kind of gives birth to and how just like exhausting it is for human beings to constantly feel like they need to be on and the kind of told about that that's taking I think is really interesting I think for me just recently I have had to put some boundaries on because you can act with everything instantly from your phone it's so much more difficult now I feel like to get any kind of reprieve from it Ward's constant inundation of email social media alerts news alerts meteor alerts whatever all from you you know sometimes it kind of feels like whoa this is this is a lot to manage constant overload it's overload I actually recently deleted my mail off app off my phone so to make me go and you know sit down the computer and actually be like okay now I'm going to do this one thing at a time or now I'm going to check the news one thing at a time because I found that I would be clunking during like six things at once or reading six different articles I would be on Twitter and messaging someone and looking at Instagram now we need an email and like I was like hard to live in the moment yes very quickly present and very difficult to present and very difficult to kind of you lose your focus and it really as human beings like the most valuable time that we have is our time and our attention and our attention in our time is constantly being eaten by those things you know we're letting these things are most valuable commodity so yeah I've had to put some boundaries in place I think I think was being part of the film we made me think about these things a lot more I was maybe thinking about them before I wondered how much of it was your feeling about it before you came in and how much did the film change your perspective on yeah I think for sure I I know it did I might the Philippines I want to see the movie because I was like you know it was something that I read and I couldn't really stop thinking about and I always know that sunset the kind of movie that I want me in if basil leaves later I'm like hmm you know I'm still pondering annex right away or I want to talk about what you know I would still I mean I constantly I still call days and I go what do you think about this they're very uncertain if is there a solution to this as there are whatever I mean the film like all great films do I think like throws up a lot of questions I think audience members will come out and want to go for a beer so that they can really kind of like hash it out that's a good movie one that you can have it in conversation about yeah the fact so Tom Hanks plays a kind of I think on the surface you'd say he's sort of a Steve Jobs type he's the head of this company he's also very charismatic are there any other like real life figures but factored into the type of person he plays he's not playing anybody from real life but interesting Sir Bill Gates element is there I think what's so terrifying about mainly as you say is that he's incredibly powerful but and smart but he also has this kind of deeply charismatic almost like showman element to him which I feel like makes him slightly on unstoppable because of himself even the worst idea ever to you I think you feel as if you've just won the lottery because he looks like Tom Hanks like he wouldn't buy anything from Tom Hanks anymore kind of my life yeah okay I'm put I thought my life anyone times it was Tommy Tom so I think he brings he brings that to the wrong and it means it makes it incredibly complex the way we feel about me very complex which is fun it's fun I think Tom means were playing the role because he could really manipulate that could be terrifying okay you also co-starred with John boyega myself coming back really yeah so he plays one of the kind of good it's kind of this triumvirate there's a triangle of power but at the top of this company and John boyega kind of plays the young genius who kind of had the idea started this company in his garage masterminded the whole thing and and he kind of has no word yeah he kind of like he was the one who unlocked this beast that he didn't that he didn't realize what it could become and it's kind of desperately trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle so yeah it's a great part it was wonderful to work with him and actually really funny I worked opposite to other brutes so John going again and then my final movie is played and by Karen Gillian a fantastic actress and Ashley's Scottish so the three of us were like you know we were like putting on our American action Tom about how to Brett's cannoneer like you know how do we know what this firm yeah it's very fun another actor you appear within the film is Bill Paxton and Radley just passed away plays your father and is one of the pressures on your character that she had he's sick yeah but what's wrong with him and he talked about working with Bill yeah so so yeah so Bill played my father who is doesn't have the medical insurance that he needs basically in order to have himself taken care of properly and he slowly destabilizing he's sort of slowly going downhill and I think the sense of powerlessness that may feel that she can't stop this and she can't help him is the way that the circle really get its claws into her because they start to sort of through her he gets medical insurance which she can take care of him and it's it's a way that they begin that she begins to feel so indebted to this company that she sort of stops being able to have a way out already to have a sense of her own mind or identity and I think that that's a very emotional of control from one is is if you feel that that care that's there for your family is going to go possibility yeah and responsibility yeah I think I think that's that's a tough one so the film the film really really deals with that and yeah I hope you're right mind if I don't talk about though but if it's um it was very sad yeah I enjoyed watching tonight yeah he was a wonderful guy I met him many times interviewing him and he had a real everyman quality to him just like Tom Hanks in some ways very warm yeah I know it was a shock I'm still meeting that yeah well you know another story I read recently that I actually didn't know very much about that la-la-land just won didn't win best picture but one yeah for Emma Stone uh that you this was a role that you were potentially up for can you I've read a lot of conflicting reports can you sort of clarify were you up for this part and how do you feel now no it's one of these frustrating things where sort of names get attached a project very early on as a way to kind of build anticipation or excitement for something that's coming before it's really anything is actually sort of lead or set in stone and it's very common but you know it was one of those situations where I had been committed to deacon beast at that point for gosh but the idea of the project itself for years actually and then it Disney has been attached to that for a number of months and you know I knew as we talked about before that this wasn't a movie I could just sort of step into I knew I had to I knew I had horse training I knew I had don't sing I knew I knew I had three months of singing ahead of me and I knew I had to be in London to really do that and this wasn't this wasn't a new thing I could just kind of parachute into you and you I knew I had to do the work and I had to be I had to be where I had to be so you know scheduling contact wise it just it didn't work out but I'm so thrilled that musicals are so celebrated at the moment that they seem to me back in zeitgeist and that people are kind of celebrating and loving music and singing and dancing again and I thought the film was wonderful and yes it's lovely you possess something you'd like to do more of in the future now you've been through Belle boot camp now I don't be bothered how I can take anything I am ready for anything now ah musicals is that something you'd like yeah I would actually I I just you know start the singing thing for me with really tough I felt very very vulnerable honestly there's something about when you act when you play a character there's something a little bit to hide behind but when you sing there's like this vulnerability like I cannot even begin to explain to you it's so war there's just nowhere to hide and I also have this red neurotic paranoia that I was like um Flores Foster Jenkins you know I wrote being part of Pedro D and then no one around me can bring themselves to tell me that I was actually in fact terrible terrible singer and I carried this around with me for months and it was kind of a barrier I had to break through where I was like I'm going to get a grip on yourself and because I knew I would be performing some of this stuff live I knew I was doing it in front of a huge audience I need a smooth course beloved you know it's mildly terrifying singing Fallon Lincoln he's one of the most talented incredible components of in my mind one time I mean I think it would be fair to to use the word genius and in his in that context and yeah I really kind of had to find this kind of belief and myself and I'm kind of impressed through and but I loved it once once I was like got my salsa it's not sure it's so much fun it really really is in a previous conversation you said you hadn't met with Pedro hair who did the singing voice of Bell in the animated symbol was she at the she was the premiere did you crosstabs wait yeah the attic primary office a was really overwhelming to me because it was the first time I'd ever met Paige you played the original Bell and the animated movie I met Linda Woolverton who broke my character she's written a ton of distribution she was involved in Lion King normalization an efficient and as if that wasn't enough like Oh page Linda Alan Menken's the whole cast oh my god and then Celine Dion comes out of nowhere I'm like oh my goodness is over warring and she is someone who you know I don't come from a family that are particularly special movie or Hollywood's orientated but my mom's not so bad and I love sylveon and we used to listen to a Celine Dion together and I was just like so spike to tell her that she had she had been such a part of my childhood that the movie had let you be part of my childhood and and you know and to get to meet her own and her to be part of our movie this mean version for how to fix things before over the credits at the end I mean doesn't get any better than that of it I was going on it's so cool so yeah so some good moments but wow I stepped off that red carpet and I was like I need to sit down it has this is a lot did you just have a cross paths with Pedro Herot momentarily or did you get to talk about Belle like you have this shared experience I know you know we didn't get too far I spoke to Linda Woolverton for longer actually because I want to I I ended up speaking her about some of the script stuff and the story stuff and there was some stuff I want to understand that out but that was my first time meeting page you've been on the other side of this having played Hermione Granger and the Harry Potter films I've watched another actress pick up the role of this character for the stage show Harry Potter in the Christmas house no bet Doom is winning and you said you were overwhelmed by the feeling seeing her perform because it felt good to see Hermione oh yeah oh we carried on it's like funny because I went I went to see in a stage production we've sewn well we're just going to think that I didn't think through what it could mean to me I didn't know what to expect really so I went in with very just like I don't know without thinking about it too much I guess and and and I was not prepared for how emotional it was for me to meet noma who plays Sidney Hawaii she kind of she came into I was in like a little room off the side of the session and she came in and and gave me this big heart and I just burst into tears I was like it was so emotional for me to know that Hermione was going to be okay and that everything kind of worked out and like what her future would look like and it was also such a relief kind of in a way to share house with someone because yeah share that with another person and to know what it was like to be part of that that character's life I don't know how to explain it or write it away isn't it oh he's now living in another person is so true and hot I am also it's not like you know being part of Harry Potter with me I grew up with I was in it for over a decade and I'd been part of this family and then the theater group welcome to me like I was part of a family immediately and that was reassuring for me too because they need me feel that I was still part of it and that was very moving for me too I think I loved it it's so good if you're in London and you get the chance to go into it you must go into it it's really really brilliant know the character is the cheap HG placer is in middle age the years go by do you ever foresee a return on screen and ceremony I know I know there's a lot of like contract I don't know what you're doing your clothing your clothing carnage no I am definitely nothing planned in a moment you know I we only just finished off it was not so long ago that we finished our original series when I wouldn't want to get anyone's anyone's hopes up for sure I let you get in 20 years oh yeah okay and I'll be another 10 you have a chance and then we'll talk about it I want to thank you for being here with us thank the audience for sitting in on our conversation that's going to do it for our entertainment weekly radio Town Hall with Emma Watson thank you so much you can watch Emma play bail on the big screen in Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Friday March 17th let's hear it for Emma Watson [Applause]

Channel: Totally Emma Watson

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Length: 43min 7sec (2587 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 10 2017