Behold: Emma, a thoroughly modern woman.Įmma wears DIESEL LEATHER TRIBUTE collection available exclusively at SELFRIDGESĭEREK BLASBERG: Where are you right now and what are you doing?ĮMMA WATSON: Right now I’m on holiday. In the upcoming Noah, she tackles the role of a biblical daughter-in-law in an epic adventure. In the film Perks of Being a Wallflower, she charmingly captured the end of an American innocence. Now, it’s as though she has caught up with herself. It’s been an interesting transition: As she herself says, she felt she was an adult even when she was in the body a little girl waving a magic wand. She navigated the pressures of filming the world’s most successful cinema franchise with elegance and grace, and she didn’t forget to do the little things, like send funny postcards from vacations and fruit baskets at the holidays.Īfter Potter, I watched her grow into a beautiful young woman who is navigating a career that’s entirely her own. (Which are not the sorts of adjectives that apply to most child actors.) Back when I’d visit her on the Harry Potter sets, her dressing areas would be tidy(ish) and her well worn and bookmarked books would be stacked everywhere. She is concise, put together, organised, forthright and reliable. I can’t be certain that, as her adopted big bro, she’s learned any of that from me, but I will say she’s taught me a thing or two.

Emma is one of those rare breeds of people who have an intuition, a good head on their shoulders, a quick judgment. There was only one striking difference: Emma, wise beyond her years, already knew more than I did about just about everything and didn’t need any such advice. So, when Emma Watson – then a smiley, sweet, super smart teenager – and I became buddies, I felt like my childhood prayers had been answered. I was the youngest in my entire family, and I always felt like it was a disservice to humanity that there wasn’t someone after me onto whom I could dispel my pearls of wisdom. My mother is the first person to say I always wanted a little brother or sister. Bloom of the wallflower, Derek Blasberg talks to Emma Watson about her journey thus far.Įmma wears yellow jewel embellished dress by PRADA

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