Emma Watson’s dad issues warning to new Harry Potter cast – ‘You have to be scared’
The Harry Potter star has opened up about her seven-year absence from acting.
Emma Watson’s father has issued a warning to the cast of the upcoming Harry Potter series.
Emma’s dad, Chris, told Times Radio about the pressures Emma’s rising to fame at such a young age put on the family.
He said: ‘As a parent, you have to be scared … This can be a very difficult thing for a parent and child to handle, or not.’
He continued, discussing how their family managed to keep Emma grounded as she skyrocketed to global fame: ‘It certainly helped that I don’t actually watch movies, it’s not a big thing in the house, and so it was easier for us to keep her feet on the ground.’
He added: ‘Normal life continued as far as possible: her homework would go back to school on motorbikes, admittedly, but she had to do her homework and check in.’
Recently, Emma has opened up about her seven-year absence from acting and the early pressures of fame.
He said: ‘As a parent, you have to be scared.’ (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images) Emma Watson has not acted in a TV or film production since 2018 (Picture: Getty Images) The 35-year-old has opened up about her career in a new interview (Picture: Dave Benett/Getty Images for Violet Films)The Harry Potter star, 35, has not appeared in a production since December 2018, when she appeared in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaptation.
After turning down a string of roles, including a live-action version of Cinderella, Emma has been open about shifting her focus to activism.
She has also launched a wine-inspired gin, named Renais, and enrolled herself for a master’s degree in creative writing at Oxford University.
Now, however, in a new interview with Hollywood Authentic, the star – who made her acting debut in 1999 with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at the age of 11 – has revealed how she ‘misses using her skillset’ in acting.
‘The bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art,’ she explained.
The Harry Potter star explained how she feels her life ‘bottomed out’ (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)‘The balance of that can get quite thrown off. I think I’ll be honest and straightforward, and say: I do not miss selling things.
‘I found that to be quite soul-destroying. But I do very much miss using my skill set, and I very much miss the art. I just found I got to do so little of the bit that I actually enjoyed.’
Emma continued by saying how when the camera rolls, you can ‘forget about everything else in the world other than that one moment’.
Describing acting as ‘an intense form of meditation’, she also said she profoundly missed how ‘freeing’ acting is.
‘I forgot it was a lot of pressure. I did a small thing for a play, just with my friends. I was like, “Bloody hell, this is stressful!” And that wasn’t even for a real public audience or anything. I don’t miss that,’ she added.
Asked about the perspective she keeps on life, she said: ‘The most important thing, really – or the foundation of your life – is your home and friends and family. I think I worked so hard for so long that my life sort of bottomed out.
The acting star has turned her focus to activism in recent years (Picture: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Emma played Hermione Granger in all eight Harry Potter films (Picture: AP)‘The bottom fell out of the piece, which was actually me and my life. So I needed to go and do some construction work. Some good foundations for anything else to grow from.
‘Because if you don’t have that, there’s a kind of mania that ensues; a kind of panic where you move from one project to the next, kind of terrified of the void in between them. You realize you don’t have a rhythm to your life.’
Previously, Watson told Financial Times in an interview two years ago that she felt ‘caged in’ by her acting profession.
Outside of Harry Potter and Little Women, Emma is known for Noah, The Bling Ring, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and Beauty and the Beast.
In July earlier this year, she was banned from driving for six months at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court after going 38mph in a 30mph zone.
She was caught speeding in Banbury, Oxford, on July 31 last year and is said to have had nine points on her licence at the time.
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