Emma Watson Profiled in New Article
Watson Interviews
Posted by: Edward
July 02, 2007, 04:21 AM
A new interview with Emma Watson in The Sydney Morning Herald is online. In the extensive article which goes into detail on her style and fashion, Emma also discusses growing up on screen, acting with the likes of Maggie Smith and and how she feels about doing interviews. While the everyday dress may be somewhat different, Emma also talks about the similarities between herself and her character, Hermione Granger, saying:
“We’re both feminists, we’re both very stubborn, both very determined and quite loyal. If I have a friend then I stay through to the end.” (She maintains a tight group of friends from school and considers her two co-stars like brothers.) “Obviously I’m a bit geeky, a bit nerdy like she is, underneath it all – we both love school. I love to learn.”
Order of the Phoenix director David Yates is also the subject of a new article from the Witney Gazette, where he is profiled and speaks briefly about his next project: directing Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Emma Watson is also quoted in the article where she says of the first time Harry Potter director:
“The word I most connect with David is truth. He always wanted to find the truth in all the characters and in every single performance. We relished that. It stopped us getting complacent the fifth time around.
“It was really lovely because David listened to what we had to say about our characters. He was respectful of the fact that we have been playing these people for five films now.”
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Hermione is NOT a feminist, because there’s nothing in JKR’s world to suggest that women are paid less or given less respect than men. We have two female founders for two male founders. There have been headmasters and mistresses of Hogwarts, two Heads of House of female/ two male, there have been female Ministers of Magic… JKR has gone to pains it seems to show that witches are considered just as powerful, bright, and even dangerous as wizards. Honestly, it’s only in our currently Grrl Power obsessed culture that the actress portraying Hermione could come to believe that Hermione is a feminist.
To use the one brief argument between Hermione and Harry in HBP as proof that Hermione is a feminist is torturing the data until it confesses. It’s more of a boys vs. girls moment, combined with Hermione being irrational in the way teenagers are often irrational, and Harry (correctly) calls her on it, seeing as he hasn’t EVER acted towards her as though he doubted her talents because she’s a girl. He (correctly) had an instictual feel that the writer was male.
Because men and women are different, after all. Different does NOT mean one is better than the other, it means different.
Verin,
I think most of us will agree that “feminist” is a muggle term. And speaking as one HP reader, I believe Hermione would be labeled a “feminist” by many in today’s muggle world.
As certain as you are that “Hermione is NOT a feminist”, this is one muggle who is equally certain that you are taking this way too seriously!
KB Prez
That is probably my favorite artical and photograph of her to date. She seems so down to earth and NORMAL! Unlike the spoiled ellite princesses we breed in Hollywood. I dont understand how Dan and Rupert dont blush when she’s around, she’s simply adorable.
well obviously JK isn’t going to litter her books with feminist references; that would make them WAAAY too worthy and would put me off them completely, as much of modern overly-pc children’s fiction does!
But that doesn’t mean that characters can’t still be feminist in spirit. The boy v girl argument in HBP is exactly the ‘feminist’ type of response a girl with the beginnings of strong feelings on the subject of equality (as Hermione demonstrates with SPEW for example) would make. I used to jump down people’s throats in that very way myself at her age. The fact that Harry didn’t intend anything is beside the point.
Oh, I can’t wait for the movie…...