It’s been years since I’ve seen Emma Watson in a movie, and for good reason.
As the actor recently told the FT, “If I’m being honest, I’m not very happy.
“I think I’m feeling a little bit caged,” Watson said. “The thing I found really difficult was that I had to go out and sell something that I really couldn’t control. Standing in front of a movie and having every reporter be able to say, ‘How does this resonate with your point of view?
“It’s hard to be the face and voice of something that I’m not part of the process,” she added. “The way I was being held accountable, I started to feel very frustrated because I didn’t have a voice, I didn’t have a voice.
“I just want to be in the face of things, and if someone is going to bash me, I can say in a way that doesn’t make me hate myself, ‘Yeah, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better. OK,” she added.
As a result, Watson hasn’t done a movie since wrapping up Little Women in late 2018.
But the actor, who has also previously appeared in movies like the Harry Potter films and Disney’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, hasn’t been completely inactive in Hollywood since her hiatus.
For example, she wrote and directed an advertising campaign for Prada’s Paradoxe fragrance in 2022
“People always tell me I should be directing and producing, even though I’m on ‘Potter,'” she said, adding that only her brother Alex Watson and friends asked for help — — ‘I need to take a photo’ or ‘I’m making a video’ – it made me realize that I actually know a lot about it.
Watson’s next project is to direct a music video for an artist she is currently unnamed, although “you’ve definitely heard of him”.
As for whether she’ll be acting again one day, the actor said unequivocally, “Yes.
“I love my job,” she explained. “It’s about finding a way to do it where I don’t have to separate myself into different faces and people. I just don’t want to switch to robot mode anymore.