{"id":41673,"date":"2025-09-25T00:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41673\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:41:07","slug":"emma-watson-still-treasures-j-k-rowling-despite-trans-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/41673\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Watson Still \u2018Treasures\u2019 J.K. Rowling Despite Trans Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere\u2019s been a lot of news about Emma Watson<\/a> this week, a rare spell for an actress who hasn\u2019t had a new movie since 2019\u2019s Little Women. But that\u2019s largely why her latest interviews are making so much noise as the 35-year-old star of the Harry Potter<\/a> franchise has opened up on an extended break from Hollywood, how she\u2019s feeling about work these days and addresses her relationship with J.K. Rowling<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new cover story for Hollywood Authentic, Watson told her friend and filmmaker Hassan Akkad that she misses the actual work but not what comes after. \u201cThe bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art. The balance of that can get quite thrown off,\u201d Watson said in the interview<\/a>, adding that she\u2019s the \u201chappiest and healthiest\u201d than she\u2019s ever been. \u201cI think I\u2019ll be honest and straight-forward, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the heels of the cover story\u2019s publication, Jay Shetty<\/a> debuted a new episode of his podcast, On Purpose With Jay Shetty, featuring Watson further opening up about a wide variety of subjects including her relationship with J.K. Rowling in the wake of the author\u2019s anti-trans activism, the difficulty of making friendships in Hollywood and the war in Gaza. <\/p>\n

\n\tRegarding Rowling, Watson said her view is to separate the relationship with the iconic author from her views. \u201cI really don\u2019t believe that by having had that experience and holding the love and support and views that I have mean that I can\u2019t and don\u2019t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with,\u201d Watson told Shetty. \u201cI will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don\u2019t get to keep and cherish to come back to our earlier thing. I just don\u2019t think these things are either or. It\u2019s my deepest wish that people who don\u2019t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don\u2019t necessarily share the same opinion with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe applied a similar way of thinking to the war in Gaza. \u201cThis duality created where we don\u2019t seem able to care about the victims of terrorism and care about the genocide that\u2019s happening in Palestine at the same time, and both things have to be allowed to be true,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to be allowed to care about 50,000 civilians dying, 17,000 of which are children, and care deeply about the victims of this awful terrorist attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatson was 11 years old when the first Harry Potter film debuted, and the franchise covered eight films in total. Playing Hermione for as long as she did and growing close to the family of collaborators didn\u2019t translate well to her future projects, explained Watson who went on to star in My Week With Marilyn, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling Ring, Noah, This is the End and Beauty and the Beast, among others. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that the people I worked with were going to be my family, and that we were going to be lifelong friends. I came to work looking for friendship, and that was a very painful experience for me, outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood. Bone-breaking, really painful because most people don\u2019t come to those environments looking for friendships. They\u2019re looking for, this is my chance, this is my role, this is what I want out of it. I\u2019m focused, this is my job, this is my career. Like, let\u2019s go. I was not of that mindset. And so I found the rejection really painful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued: \u201cIt was so unusual to make a set of films for 12 years. We were a community, we really were. I took that as an expectation into my other workplaces, and I just got my ass kicked. I really did. It broke me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tShetty and Watson<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Jay Shetty<\/p>\n

\n\tStill, even experiencing such pain, Watson said she\u2019s not ready to throw in the towel on her acting career. \u201cI\u2019ll never say that i\u2019ll quit acting. I\u2019ll always be an actor. I\u2019m still open to doing it again,\u201d she said, with an asterisk. \u201cI don\u2019t feel quite that kind of urgency of needing to do it. It\u2019s also why I\u2019ve had to really navigate my relationship towards art and acting cause I\u2019m pretty sure that I was using acting as a way of escaping how painful\u2026it wasn\u2019t just the divorce, it was just like the continuing situation of living between two different houses and two different lives and two different sets of values.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s been a lot of news about Emma Watson this week, a rare spell for an actress who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,19020,156,510,19027,37370,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-41673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-emma-watson","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harry-potter","12":"tag-j-k-rowling","13":"tag-jay-shetty","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}