Emma Watson says she 'hasn't stopped acting'
Emma Watson has not starred in a film since 2019 Little womenbut she hasn't stopped acting yet.
“I don't see myself as having stopped acting,” Watson, 33, said British Vogue in an interview published on Thursday, January 25. “I just see myself as someone who wants to expand what I do and who can contribute to the things I've written, directed or produced.”
She explained that writing and directing “was really great,” and she started exploring the professions while she was home during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I just realized how much I loved it and that I wanted to keep doing it,” she added. “And so I'm actually studying now too.”
Watson made her directorial debut in 2022 with a short film that served as an advertising campaign for the Prada Paradoxe fragrance. The next step is to star in something she wrote.
“It would make me pretty excited to direct something that I wrote one day,” she said British Vogue.
However, she does not expect to return to the silver screen immediately. “To really get started on a project takes time,” she emphasizes. “Films can take decades to be made, found, written and put together. I don't see it as closure. I see it as an opening.”
Emma Watson played the role of Meg March in 'Little Women' (2019).
SonyIn the meantime, Watson has focused on launching a gin called Renais with his brother Alex Watsonas well as her activism for gender equality and sustainability.
Watson previously opened up about how she “felt a bit caged” when she took a break from acting in 2019. “I wasn't very happy, if I'm honest,” she said Financial times in April 2023.
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“What was really difficult for me was having to sell something that I didn't really have much control over,” she said. “To stand in front of a movie and have every journalist say, 'How does this match your point of view?' It was very difficult to have to be the face and spokesperson for issues where I was not involved in the process.”
She explained, “I love what I do. It's finding a way to do it where I don't have to divide myself into different faces and people. And I just don't want to switch to robot mode anymore. Does that make any sense?”
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She wrote the foreword for Felton's October 2022 memoir, Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Chaos of Growing Up a magician. “We've loved each other in a special way for more than 20 years, and I've lost count of the times people have said to me, 'You must have drunkenly kissed me once!' “You must have kissed!” 'There must be something!'” Watson wrote. “But what we have goes much deeper than that. It is one of the purest loves I can think of.”
Watson closed the intro by calling her former costar a “little piece of my soul.”