Emma Watson has reportedly has declined an offer to play the part of Cinderella in a new adaptation.The Harry Potter star has apparently turned down the role because of her hectic work schedule, the Daily Express reported. Kenneth Branagh, who is directing the remake of the Disney
classic, is said to have offered the part to the British star, but now it's been claimed that the 22-year-old will not star in the film. "Emma Watson has decided NOT to star in Disney's CINDERELLA. (sic)" tweeted Variety reporter Marc Graser.
However, it has been revealed to the publication that actress Cate Blanchett has agreed to play Cinderella's evil stepmother in the movie.
NOT THE SAME MOVIE... 'CINDERSTEIN' WOULD BE WEIRD.
Seeing as they’ve graduated Hogwarts now and gone back to lives filled with general Muggle-ness, Emma Watson and Danielle Radcliffe are obviously missing being real life versions of book characters, as they’ve both signed up for new ‘book on the screen’ movie adaptations.
Hermione will be transforming into fairytale princess Cinderella, and ‘Arry Potter will be entering the creepy world of Frankenstein.
It’s all very exciting.
Emma is lined up for the starring role in Kenneth Branagh’s version of Cinderella, which is set to be a highly visual reworking of the fairytale. Think Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, or the new Oz The Great and Powerful flick. Cate Blanchett has already been cast as the evil stepmum, so it sounds like it should be rather brill.
Getcha glass slipper out for the lads.
Dan Rad will turn from fit Voldy-fighting super wizard to hideous hunchback, for his part in the new Frankenstein film, as he takes on the role of Igor, the lab assistant to Dr Franky.
According to The Wrap, Dan’s character will be "pathologically dirty and dressed in old clown's clothing". Which sounds quite frankly like some kind of TERRIFYING NIGHTMARE but also AWESOME.
And British actress Emma Watson certainly flew the flag for the UK at The People's Choice Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening in a very short graphic cut-out dress which accentuated her slender figure.
Emma, 22, opted for an unusual thigh skimming Peter Pilotto dress for the glitzy awards bash, where she picked up Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress for movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
The Harry Potter actress looked delighted to pick up an award at the ceremony, which is known as the younger, funkier sibling of the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
And during the ceremony, nerves obviously high the young actress was seen cosying up to Wallflower co-star Ezra Miller, who looked dashing in a grey suit.
According to The Sunday People, the 22-year-old 'Harry Potter' star singled out after landing at New York's JFK airport and told she should be accompanied by an adult.
The flustered actress, who was eventually waved through and managed to laugh off the incident, later revealed that she is often mistaken for a kid and blamed the fact she was wearing a schoolgirl-style backpack.
According to a source, Watson was mortified, and not only did they not recognise her, they thought she was a child. It was very embarrassing but she managed to awkwardly laugh it off.
The British actress, who recently finished filming her latest movie 'This Is The End', later told of her embarrassment on Twitter.
"Passport control: 'Unaccompanied minor?' Me: 'Sorry?' Passport control: 'Where is ur guardian?' Me: 'I'm 22!!!!!!!' #neverwearingabackpackagain," the Mirror quoted her as tweeting.
"The really sad thing is that this is not the first time this has happened," she added.
The star was returning to the US where she was expected to continue her studies at Brown University, Rhode Island.
Odious comparisons to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye emerged when Stephen Chbosky's young-adult novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower was published in 1999. Erase the thought. Chbosky's semiautobiographical treatment of his high school days was good, just not that good.
The film version, written and directed by Chbosky himself in a rare but welcome instance of Hollywood actually thinking an author might know something about his own book, is a modest but distinct pleasure. Chbosky is clearsighted about the harsh realities of sexual identity, drug use and mental illness, but alert to the scars left by emotional wounds.
Logan Lerman (3:10 to Yuma) excels as Charlie, the smart but socially inept freshman. The novel was done with letters, but Lerman is quite adept at catching the right tone of voice for a character who's still not over a friend's suicide, and a traumatic experience with an aunt (Melanie Lynskey).
It's an unwritten rule that every wallflower needs advisers. Charlie's older sister (a lovely turn from Nina Dobrev of The Vampire Diaries) lends a sympathetic ear. And Paul Rudd brings warmth and nuance to the English teacher who befriends Charlie, within limits.
But Charlie needs help on the inside of this Pittsburgh high school circa 1991. Enter Samantha, a pretty, poised senior possessed of natural cool. She's played by Emma Watson in her first major foray out of Hogwarts. Naturally Charlie aims his misplaced affection straight at her. Watson, sporting a spot-on Yank accent, makes a dream girl to die for.
But Perks is stolen, head to tail, by Ezra Miller (sensational as Tilda Swinton's psycho son in We Need to Talk About Kevin). Miller is a force of healing nature as Patrick, Sam's gay stepbrother. For Charlie, Patrick reps a world where feelings get expressed, where problems get talked out. Miller brings stinging humor and surprising tenderness to Patrick, two qualities Charlie needs badly.
Perks deserves points for going beyond the typical coming-of-age drivel aimed at teens. Chbosky's compassion for his characters is absent any hint of condescension. And that's reflected in performances that leave the feeling you've seen something good and true.
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson is cutting her ties with the fashion world so she can focus entirely on her acting career.
Emma has previously served as the face of fashion firm Burberry and cosmetic company Lancome, and she recently teamed up with fair trade corporation People Tree as a creative advisor and helped in designing two clothing ranges.
Now, the 22-year-old insists she is taking a step back from the industry in a bid to concentrate on her chosen profession - acting.
"It was fun when I was younger, but I don't think it will be quite as much part of my future, honestly. Now that I know acting is the thing I want to do, that's more where my passion is and my focus is," contactmusic.com quoted Watson as saying.
"I still find fashion very interesting, but it's quite full-on. I am finding more and more that I don't want to wear a dress and heavy make-up. I want to wear jeans more. It's quite intense to do it all the time," she said.
Actress Emma Watson says she made a music band along with her ‘Perks Of Being A Wallflower’ co-star Logan Lerman on sets of the movie.
The 22-year-old, plays the role of Sam in the movie who is a high school student. The actress says most of the nights both the actors would play music.
"Throughout the movie we all made music together. Our band was called Octopus Jam. I sing and Logan Lerman is a classical composer, and he created a piece for me," a website has quoted Watson as saying.
"Most nights we would sit and play music, so that was fun," she added.
It's no secret that when an young Emma Watson promoted the Harry Potter films which have brought her huge wealth and fortune, she used to rely on her stepmother's cast-offs to tread the red carpet. Undoubtedly style lows, the actress has now admitted that wearing "things that were just far too big for me too" are also up their on her 'rather forget' list.
IN PICTURES: Emma Watson's fashion hits
So what is worth celebrating about her now very grown-up wardrobe, which includes elegant and occasionally risqué numbers by Valentino, Burberry and Marchesa?
READ: Emma Watson, my fashion sense is boring
"My all-time favourites are probably the white Alexander McQueen dress I wore to the Empire Awards and the vintage Ossie Clark dress I found in a shop around the corner from my house..." the 22-year-old tells the new issue of Glamour , which she covers to promoter her new film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower .
Unlike the aforementioned Steinfelds and Shipkas, Watson was the ripe old age of 18 when she debuted in said McQueen, wowing the crowds at The National Movie Awards in London in a romantic white gown with draped sleeves and a silver, crystal-embellished bust. And as for the grey, plunging neckline Ossie Clark gown she wore to the Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince premiere in London's Leicester Square in 2009, we're glad to hear the memories sustained from that evening are good ones; torrential rain and a gust of wind revealed her flesh-coloured undergarments to the world.
Luckily, Watson has taken it all in her rather down-to-earth stride: "it helps that I've accepted my body shape more as I've got older" she concludes.
Emma Watson says she is too famous to go out in public.
The actress struggles to go anywhere unrecognised since finding fame with the hit Harry Potter film franchise. Emma can no longer enjoy outings to exhibitions or galleries as she is likely to be swamped by fans.
The 22-year-old says it just takes one eagle eyed member of the public to spot her and chaos erupts.
"If I went somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum, I'll last ten or 15 minutes in a museum," Watson revealed to The New York Times Style magazine.
"The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect."
The notoriously shy star cannot handle being mobbed by the public. She finds this prospect particularly scary when she is alone. As a result Watson avoids putting herself in situations where this could happen.
"Then very quickly the situation starts to get out of control to a point where I can't manage it on my own," Emma nervously continued to explain.
The New York Times has a new interview with Emma in their T-Magazine – Women’s Fall Fashion issue. Emma talks about working on her American accent for Perks, continuing her education and acting, and dealing with fame. The article includes a new photoshoot by Alasdair McLellan.
Emma Watson has denied rumours that she is going to play Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Watson, who claims to have had nobody approach her about the project, admitted that she hasn't even read the book.
"I haven't read the book, I haven't a read a script, nothing," the Daily Mail quoted her as telling Entertainment Weekly.
"There are so many movies you become attached to when I've literally never even received a phone call.
"It was the same way with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - I never even saw a script!'
The actress, who enchanted viewers as a young wizard in Harry Potter, claimed that the hype around the raunchy role became so much that she even had to tell family and close friends that she was not going to do it.
"I told them just because there are 60 articles on the Internet doesn't mean it's any less true than if there are three or four.
Gladiator star Russell Crowe says his kids are very excited about the fact that he is making a film with Harry Potter star Emma Watson. The 48-year-old actor's sons Charles, eight, and Tennyson, five, are very impressed that the actress has joined the cast of his forthcoming film Noah because
they are big fans of the "Harry Potter" film series, in which she played Hermione Granger, reported Contactmusic.
"My kids are flipping out that I'm going to work with Hermione," Crowe tweeted.
The actor, who is married to singer-actress Danielle Spencer, has previously treated his children to a Harry Potter studio tour in London, England and says they impressed their guide with their intelligent reasoning.
Referring to the houses which the Hogwarts students are sorted into in the Harry Potter stories, Crowe said, "Harry Potter tour, guide assumed my boys would be gryffendor, no way they say, Ravenclaw, why? They are the smart kids and none of them die."
Noah, which is directed by Darren Aronofsky, will see the actor portray the Biblical ark builder, while Watson will play Ila, the love interest of his older son Shem (Douglas Booth).
Emma Watson walked a pink dog to raise awareness for a breast cancer charity.
The 'Harry Potter' franchise actress was blasted by critics and fans recently when she was spotted taking a puppy out that sported fur dyed in a bright colour.
But the star has hit back at claims of cruelty towards the one-year-old bichon fries, claiming the dog isn't even hers.
She wrote on her twitter page: 'Ayeye. Just to clarify one more time that I don't have a dog. @PinkDarcyDog is pink because her owner is raising money for breast cancer.'
Groom Dog City owner Stuart Simons assured concerned fans that the treatment he did on the pet was not harmful.
He told website MailOnline: 'Pink is our biggest colour, but I do look after another bichon called Casper who comes in for a blue mohican.'
He said the beetroot-based semi-permanent dye is harmless and that all the dyes he uses are completely animal-friendly.
He added: 'I wet the dog, rub it on like a shampoo, leave it for five minutes and then wash it off. Because Darcy is white, it takes really well. She is a very calm dog, absolutely lovely, and she enjoys her groom.'
Emma Watson is set to go Biblical with a role in Darren Aronofsky's drama Noah.
The Harry Potter star is in talks to join the film as Ila, the love interest of Noah's son Shem (played by Douglas Booth), reported Variety.
It will mark a reunion with her Perks Of Being A Wallflower co-star Logan Lerman.
Russell Crowe is already on board in the lead role of ark builder Noah, but the parts of the villain and Noah's wife have yet to be cast.
Liev Schreiber is thought to be a contender to play the antagonist, while Jennifer Connelly was linked to the role of the wife.
Shooting for Noah is scheduled to begin in the summer, with a 2014 release in cinemas.
Since the Harry Potter finale, where Emma waved farewell to her bookish alter-ego Hermione Granger, the star has appeared in acclaimed film My Week With Marilyn.
As well as Perks Of Being A Wallflower, her upcoming big-screen outings include Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's comedy End Of The World, where she is rumoured to appear as herself.
Miss Watson, 22, plays the subject of an adolescent boy’s affections in a film adaption of the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
A trailer of the film, released last night, shows the former Harry Potter series actor dancing in lingerie during a burlesque show to a song from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
"I was very nervous to that stuff," Miss Watson told a cable television channel at the MTV Movie Awards yesterday. "It was tough."
"I think Harry Potter fans will love it because it has so much heart, like the Harry Potter stories do," she added. "I feel like it's the perfect transition from Harry Potter to kind of a more adolescent movie. It's a little bit of an older tone. It's darker."
Stephen Chbosky’s book is among those that have prompted most complaints to the American Library Association, for its treatment of drugs, homosexuality, nudity and offensive language.
EMMA Watson has got herself an unlikely new pal — pop megastar RIHANNA.
The girls are co-starring in new film The End Of The World and immediately hit it off on set.
Emma — dressed in jeans, a tight grey vest and matching grey blazer — laughed and joked with the We Found Love singer between takes.
Her new co-star couldn’t be more different to her Potter pals Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint — and the new friendship might help the 22-year-old actress shed her clean-cut image.
The Bajan star was spotted larking around with another girlfriend but also spent plenty of time chatting to Emma.
The new BFFs both play themselves in the movie, which is written and directed by comedy hero Seth Rogen.
The comedy action film will see the apocalypse break out while a whole host of stars — all appearing as themselves — attend a party at James Franco’s house.
Harry Potter actress Emma seems to be enjoying being on set in New Orleans with the all-star cast.
She tweeted: “Comedy is brutal #endoftheworld. New Orleans is the best!! : ) See you all soon. Em x”.
Meanwhile her mate Rihanna clearly had a blast with another of their co-stars, writing: "Just leaving set! Kevin Hart clearly has childhood issues! Lolololol ! This has to be one of my favorite moments in life #endoftheworld"
We reported earlier that Jo, from Emma Watson Official, is asking for suggestions for Emma’s site, or questions you would like to ask Emma. Today, Emma wrote a lovely little post on her Facebook. She posted,“I think when you take away all the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it’s all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.” There were many requests for Emma to post more, and this may just be a sign that more is on it’s way!
Emma also included this picture:
A new photo from The Bling Ring set was posted today on the movies facebook page. And another photo of Emma and Israel Broussard taken by Sofia Coppola from about a month ago that we didn’t post before.
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