There are those who dream of dying on stage and those who can’t wait to quit the script. It is the case Emma Watsonthe unforgettable Hermione Granger from the saga of Harry Potter. Emma who made it 33 years On April 15, he quit acting almost five years ago and is only now explaining why: “I felt trapped. I wasn’t very happy being an actress,” said the former muggle witch. Emma has decided to tell the Financial Times everything by revealing a new existential path, which also includes directing a short film for Prada, a Organic Gin Distillery with one of his brothers and a new one Creative writing course at Oxford University.
The last time in front of the camera was in December 2018 with little woman by Greta Gerwig, in which she played the role of Meg, the eldest of the four March sisters. He had starred in it the year before Beauty and the Beast . Emma started acting as a child – she was eleven when the first Harry Potter film came out – and dedicated part of her childhood and adolescence to cinema.
During her cinema break (which, however, will not be final) she has not stood idly by: last winter she wrote and directed u. a advertising campaign for the new Perfume From prada, paradox. “Even when I was doing Harry Potter – he explained – I was told that I should direct and produce. But being a director seemed like an unattainable mirage. The proposal came at just the right time when I decided in my heart that I really wanted to stage something.” There’s then Renaissancea label of organic gin derived from by-products of Chablis grapes – not grain – developed with his brother Alex; The grapes come from the seven family vineyards in France, Domaine Watson, planted by his father Chris. Back to school at last: The former Hermione, who graduated from Brown University in the US in 2014, will return to Oxford in September to pursue a Masters in Creative Writing.