Emma Watson: 'I Wanted To Prove Them Wrong' About Acting

Emma Watson heads into a hotel for a business meeting in Soho, New York City on Thursday afternoon (August 15).

“Really moved that you all voted for ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ at the #TeenChoiceAwards. Im so sorry I couldn’t be there to accept!Xx,” the 23-year-old actress recently tweeted of the flick’s recent win.

Emma also recently spoke with EW about moving on past Harry Potter.

“For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, ‘Will they ever be able to play anything else?’ It gave me a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while. And then a professor told me that they didn’t think I should act, either. So I was really grappling with it and wasn’t feeling good about it,” she shared. “And then, I don’t know…it got so bad and people had put me in a box so much that it started pissing me off. I suddenly wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel, in a way. I’m not sure why that shift happened.”