Emma Watson Reveals Why She Doesn't Talk About Her Boyfriend
Emma Watson is on the cover of Vanity Fair‘s new issue!
The 26-year-old Beauty and the Beast star spoke with the mag about her boyfriend, taking photos with fans, and more. Here’s what she shared…
On not taking photos with fans anymore: “For me, it’s the difference between being able to have a life and not. If someone takes a photograph of me and posts it, within two seconds they’ve created a marker of exactly where I am within 10 meters. They can see what I’m wearing and who I’m with. I just can’t give that tracking data…I’ll say, ‘I will sit here and answer every single Harry Potter fandom question you have but I just can’t do a picture.’ I have to carefully pick and choose my moment to interact. When am I a celebrity sighting versus when am I going to make someone’s freakin’ week? Children I don’t say no to, for example.”
On not talking about her boyfriend in interviews: “I want to be consistent: I can’t talk about my boyfriend in an interview and then expect people not to take paparazzi pictures of me walking around outside my home. You can’t have it both ways�. I’ve noticed, in Hollywood, who you’re dating gets tied up into your film promotion and becomes part of the performance and the circus. I would hate anyone that I were with to feel like they were in any way part of a show or an act.”
On her version of Belle today: “I was like, ‘The first shot of the movie cannot be Belle walking out of this quiet little town carrying a basket with a white napkin in it,’?” she says. “?’We need to rev things up!’ The original sketches had her in her ballet shoes…which are lovely�don’t get me wrong�but she’s not going to be able to do anything terribly useful in ballet shoes in the middle of a French provincial village.”
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