Emma Watson Does British ‘Elle’ Magazine
Emma Watson, star of the upcoming Summer movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of British Elle magazine. In addition to another fashion forward photospread, Emma talks a bit about the anonymity that she hopes to achieve once she enters college here in the US (it’s rumored she’ll attend classes at Columbia University) after she completes filming the final Harry Potter movie The Deathly Hallows. Here is Emma’s British Elle coverphoto and a portion of her coverstory interview:
It’s hard to imagine Emma Watson ever fading into the background – but according to the Harry Potter actress that’s exactly what she wants to do. The 19-year-old is busy preparing for the end of the Harry Potter franchise and her start at U.S. university Columbia in September. And, despite her worldwide fame, she has revealed she hopes to be just another ‘anonymous’ student. “I’m so excited. Living in London, it’s hard to be anonymous,” she told Elle magazine. “But hopefully, on some campus somewhere, I’ll fade into the background a bit.” But if the photos accompanying the article are anything to go by, fashion fan Emma will stand out wherever she goes. The rock chick-style shoot shows her with backcombed hair and dramatic eye makeup, showing off her figure in leggings, heels and space-age suits. Emma, who lives with a flatmate in Hampstead, had considered taking up a place at Cambridge University, after receiving straight As in her A’levels. But she reveals: ‘I’m very aware that with Cambridge, people would find that interesting. “Cambridge is so high profile in itself and then, on top of that, people don’t really go out in Cambridge because it’s so small, so I’ll be going out in London and then that’s just the same thing. I definitely am attracted to the States for that reason.” With the end of filming on the Harry Potter series of eight films, Emma will be saying goodbye to her ’second family’ on the Watford set. “It’s going to sound dramatic, but I feel like it’s going to be my life over as I know it,” she said. “My whole life has been about Harry Potter and then all of that will shut down and I don’t know what it will be like. I go to university in September – I’ll be doing bits and bobs at Christmas, but September feels like my cut-off point, the moment when I’ll really stop.” And, having already banked more than £10 million, Emma isn’t certain she will return to acting. “At the moment I feel like I need to go away and figure out what I want to do and be myself for a bit,” she said. “Does that sound strange? I just want to take a step back from it and not rush into stuff. I need university to give me that break. People think because I’m going to university I’m never going to act again, but it’s actually me. I want to figure out how I feel about everything first. Maybe I’ll keep acting, maybe I won’t. I just want to find something where I feel I have to do this. Maybe that’ll happen when I read a script. It felt like that with Hermione. I want to feel like that again.” But if that doesn’t happen Emma already has another career in mind – she says she would enjoy being a make-up artist.
Um … or a fashion model! OK, mebbe not a model for real but she does rock these hot outfits right. After the jump, check out a few of Emma’s photos from this issue of British Elle magazine …
I cannot even tell you how impressed I am with this girl’s plans for college first, fame later … if ever. I’m not what sure is going on over in the UK but they seem to be churning out these amazingly well-adjusted young actors who put their US counterparts to shame. Emma will be a huge success because she is firstly working on her education. I just heart her. I hope she enjoys her time in NYC when she enters Columbia this Fall.
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June 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
She looks gorgeous…-ly grown up.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
She is beautiful and seems to be really level-headed and “smart” about this whole acting thing. Her attitude reminds me a bit of Jodie Foster and the intelligent decisions she made regarding her education.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
She looks great, but…. an awful lot like Kristen Stewart here, right?!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
better then Kristen Stewart.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
100%, but still, the second picture?
June 30th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Please don’t jump the gun, people. Some of us bored Columbians have assiduously scanned the Brit Elle magazine scans and have not found a single quote where Emma Watson says “I’m coming to Columbia.” Even in the quotes above in this article, she never mentions Columbia.
Sources at other Ivies have reported that the Brown undergrad acceptance office has actually accidentally leaked her acceptance of the Brown place. So no – NYDN/Perez Hilton/all the crazy London mags are wrong.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
i love how she thinks she can go to an american school and have more privacy! thats cute!!! does she know how popular harry potter is here? she’ll be going to school with a bunch of smarty pants who most likely have read harry potter! love her for getting her education on!
June 30th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
I dont know what happened to her, but im glad it did. She is lookin so HAWT lately and she doesnt have to lose clothes to do it.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
She would get more privacy here though. Ask David Beckham, the paparazzi in England are absolutely NUTS. Our tabloids don’t hold a candle to theirs. She’s amazing though and she’s one of the biggest reasons I finally decided to pick up the Harry Potter books and read them. I’m on Goblet of Fire now.
June 30th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I just love her!
June 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Trent, Completely agree about the UK “churning out these amazingly well-adjusted young actors.” I think we also have the UK to thank for successfully releasing a series of movies (and what will be 8 at that) without losing cast members or sacrificing quality for public demand of quick releases. Sadly, I am pretty confident the US would have messed up the Harry Potter series with greed.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Ms. J would hate the cover and the last pose. It’s the first pose girls do in the hood.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
She reminds me a bit of Natalie Portman!
I don’t know why, maybe it’s the education thing, but there just seems to be more of a grounded feel to her, which is similar to Natalie Portman!
Maybe that’s just me though….
June 30th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
i love how her mind works. but its cute that she thinks she can fade into the background lol.
i gotta say this girl is pretty flawless – shes a decent actress, level headed, and beautiful. i hope after she finishes school, she gets back into acting, i think she could have a long career.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
DAMN
she’s so amazingly beautiful
and smart too!
June 30th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I love this photo shoot she did, it turned out great. I love all of the outfits and the Gucci tube is hawt.
June 30th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
I seriously adore her. She is so sophisticated, but unbelievably edgy and fierce at the same time. Hard to pull off, but she does it!
June 30th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
She reminds me of a Anne Hathaway. Intelligent, smart, pretty. I would say – takes very smart, risky & great roles. But i’ve only seen Emma in Harry Potter. Thats not saying she isnt intelligent. She suit that role SO well. She seems like a great actor and thats why she reminds me so much of Anne Hathaway. Anne may do the odd, commercial, romance comedy flick but she has so much talent also.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
i love her so much, i would give her shia. and i love shia.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
She is adorable…. <3 her so much!
July 1st, 2009 at 1:07 am
yuuuuuuuummmy.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:01 am
That cover picture is horrific! Whoever did that to her should be ashamed. The rest of the pictures are okay, but this is definitely my least favorite spread that we have seen of her.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:37 am
Agree with Ally. The Teen Vogue (?) spread was way better.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:39 am
Wow. She really can pull off anything, can’t she? I love seeing her in photos like this. It’s such a stark contrast to her Harry Potter work. I adore Emma, and completely agree with you about her level-headedness. It’s always so great to see young girls in the spotlight who manage to keep themselves composed. She definitely has my respect.
July 1st, 2009 at 10:18 am
She’s the most gorgeous and most fabulous girl EVER. I loooove her.
July 1st, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Ah, she looks so stunning! I am so glad she’s kept a level head :)
And yes, there are major differences between our young stars and the US. I think I’d die of shame if Miley Cyrus was british :(
July 1st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
yea my first thought was that she looked like kristen stewart too
July 1st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
aww, I love that shoes.