Emma Watson takes the cover of Marie Claire’s December issue, featuring an exclusive interview and photoshoot by Tesh. We have a preview of the article, photos from the shoot, and a photoshoot video for you today. The issue goes on sale November 16.
You can also check out Emma’s style and fashion accessories from the photoshoot. Here we have MQ images.
Update: Three HQ images thanks to Yarumil, and another video.
And finally, a preview of the interview by Leslie Bennetts:
When Emma Watson arrived at Brown University last year, students reacted with giddy excitementa bona fide movie star living in their midst!that was tempered by a genuine desire to respect her privacy.
But her fellow freshmen grew up watching the Harry Potter movies, which starred Watson as Harry’s pal Hermione Granger, and sometimes they simply couldn’t restrain themselves.
In one class, the professor asked students a question, and Watson raised her hand. Just like the fiercely smart, overachieving, always-right Hermione, Watson gave the correct answer.
From the back of the room, one of her classmates called out, “Score 20 points for Gryffindor!”
At Brown, Watson wasn’t playing for Gryffindorthe fictional house where Harry and Hermione lived at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardrybut she has found a real home. When we met for breakfast shortly before Watson began her sophomore year this past fall, she was eager to return to college life.
“The first year at Brown was about finding my feet,” she said. “I found a great group of girlfriends, and now that I know how things work and what the professors expect, I’m really excited about going back for my second year, because I feel this time I can relax and enjoy it.”
Watson is deeply grateful for the way she’s been treated by her peers. “Brown has a real sense of community, and people are very protective of me,” she said. “They really look out for me; they want me to feel like I’m part of it. I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.”
This sense of comfort is particularly welcome as Watson adjusts to the end of the Potter saga, a job that defined her life for a decade. After the November release of the seventh movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I, the series will conclude next July with the release of the eighth and final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II. When Watson finished shooting last June, she was left with a welter of powerful feelings. “My last day was pretty emotional,” she admitted. “It was sad; it’s the end of an era. What an amazing learning experience! I gave everything I could to that role, and I got so much from it.”
Now that it’s over, Watson is reveling in the freedom to make changesstarting with a radical haircut that left her nervously fingering the feathery ends of the new pixie style that was inspired by such icons as Mia Farrow, Edie Sedgwick, Jean Seberg, and Audrey Hepburn.
“I’ve wanted to do it since I was about 16, and when Harry Potter ended in June, I just needed a change,” Watson said. “It was quite symbolic for me. It’s very short; it was buzzed at the back and on the sides. And it’s really liberating that I can walk out without thinking about it.”
With her transformation from bushy-haired Hermionewhose thick tresses were augmented with hair extensionsto a gamine look far better suited to her delicate features, Watson also announced her intention to grow and evolve instead of hanging on to her youthful image as one of the pint-size wizards who captivated people’s imaginations all over the world.
The highest-grossing film series in history, the Potter movies were so successful that the seven J.K. Rowling books were expanded into eight major feature films. “It wasn’t like I made one movie; it was working consistently for 10 years. There was no reprieve,” Watson said. “But I’m glad I saw it through to the end; I played that character from the start, and I wanted to finish what I started. It felt very satisfying that I had completed Hermione’s journey.”
Watson’s parallel journey was less dramatic than some of Hermione’s death-defying escapades, but the actress has also lived an extraordinary adventure during the last decade. Her own choiceslike those of Hermionehave been dictated by a highly disciplined intelligence, an intense commitment to achieving her objectives, and an iron will.
Watson’s passion for performing was originally ignited by a poetry recital competition. “I loved finding out the real meaning of all the words, and how I could say them, and what I could do with my voice, and how I could get the audience to hang on my every word,” she explained. “I just got really into it.”
She was 7 years old when she read the first Harry Potter book, and she was in the middle of reading the third one when she auditioned for the first movie. “Playing Hermione just came so naturally; I had a real affinity for her,” she said. “I felt like I knew exactly who she was. Like me, she’s very loyal and determined, she’s very intelligent, and she has a lot of guy friends, as I do. Her eagerness to please and to have the right answer is definitely like me. I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.”
But her decision to go after the role was as audacious as her chances were unlikely, given her lack of acting experience. Even as a 9-year-old, however, Watson manifested a near-obsessive commitment to her goal. “I started working on the audition at 9 in the morning and didn’t stop until 5 in the evening,” she recalled. “The tape was just me doing the same thing hundreds of times over, until I got it exactly right. I was just amazed at my stamina. The grown-ups said, ‘We had to stop you; you wanted to keep going.’ I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.”
Watson’s parents, who divorced when she was very young, are both lawyersher father is a telecommunications attorney, and her mother is a solicitorbut their little girl made it clear they were not to stand in her way. “I would never have forgiven my parents if they had made me turn down that opportunity,” she said. “I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It’s scary, but that’s part of it. I think it’s important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.”
Despite the temptations of Hollywood and a complicated family with assorted full, half-, and stepsiblings, Watson seems the polar opposite of wild-child stars who generate lurid headlines. She appears to have spent her entire adolescence as a classic good girl, unremittingly hard-working and conscientious.
“I do things in my own way, but I’ve never felt any need to rebel,” she said. “To be honest, I’ve always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I’ve earned my own money; I’ve traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I’ve had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have any time to work things out. It’s been pretty scary at times.”
LOVE it! I'm really beginning to love her short hair even more than when it was long – she looks so chic.
big news!! really amazing.. i just checked vogue and there's a small preview from her interview and also this shot you haven't posted below 😉 http://cdni.condenast.co.uk/320×480/d_f/ewatson_v_testino_b.jpg
OMG she is so gorgeous in this ed,she looks so fersh and cheerful! I love the clothes,they are totally her style and fit her great… one of my fav eds so far! ( P.S. I liked the Vogue ed too) 😉 <3
She is the most magnificent person in the world. I've never admired/looked up to/ adored/respected anyone as much as I do Emma. She's such an inspiration to do great things.
WOW! Great pics. Thanks for posting these.
She looks amazing!!!! I love her! 🙂
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1326191/Emma-Watson-enjoys-night-mystery-man-ex-Geor ge-Craig-helped-home.html So pretty! I hope she enjoyed her night out!
Awesome! 🙂
wonderful! i've alwayss loved the time when harry potter is about to come out, lots of Emma pics, news and stuff. this is a very wonderful pictorial. 😆
Oh, @Tia, it's just the Daily Mail)))) they just were in car together) that's all! 😉
great photoshoot!!! 😆
nice….beauty….UNBELIEVABLE
GORGEOUS! The cut really suits her!! 🙂
♥…
Emma is absolutely gorgeous. =P
looks like a boy with nice legs and makeup on…
however I must admit she has great character! prob the only girl in the media that truly knows who she is. but ya she looks like a dude now..
Do not pretend to be different people making the same sort of negative comments.
she looks gorgeous!!! 😆
Just saying how I feel dook. dont let it effect u so much my feeling on emma. shes a great person I just have my opinions like everyone else does.
those negative comments about her hair make me very angry, she's sutch a beautful girl, inside out, het hair doesn't matters to me (pléáse not shoter though.. haha!), If you REALLY like her, you would never say she's looking like a 'dude'. But that's not why I'm here, I wanted to say… I really love the clip about her bag. I love the mulberry elexa and I even more love her in it. She's looking so great! the way she's looks in the camera, it's sooo great, I love her. the smile before she starts talking, it made mé laugh!!
After all this time, i don't like her short hair… 😥 😥 😥 In the past, i like her photos sooo much, but now, i can't look at this.. 😥
@Lucyffer: Not to be rude or anything, but just don't look at them. Look at the old photos instead if it makes you feel better 😉 Or, if you really are determind to like her hair: look at the photos from Cut magazine. Those are probably the best she has so far with short hair, I love them ^.^ As for whats in her bag: THANK YOU MARIE CLARE!!! I HAVE BEEN DYING TO KNOW SICE 2008¢¾ I'm not surprised she carries an Alexa, she's so chic like that.
I don't think the "she looks like a boy" thing is an opinion. she doesn't, that's quite simply a fact. unless he is uber gay no boy would look that delicate. So you could only possibly mean she looks like an uber-gay dude? And why not make this less complicated and just admit she still looks like a girl bc she unmistakably is one, even if she shaved her hair off completely it would still be obvious.
well she looks like a pretty dude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nHTK0K1JvA
@zalama: I've never seen a dude like that in my life. Even so called pretty guys don't look that girly. Maybe my eyes just don't work properly or yours don't, but I seriously can't see how anyone could confuse her with a guy.
I support meandme on this one. Dudes don`t look like that. If they did, I`d probably gotten into some serious sexual identity crisis by now. The hair may be short, but she`s clearly a girl. A hot one.
Alex watson is the dude version of Emma but i really don't think she looks like a dude. That's a very beautiful woman right there. Long hair or not. I used to not really like her short hair because i'm so used to seeing her with the long one but if you look at her, really look at her, i don't think that the hair style changed anything. She's still beautiful. She still has that smile and that look in her eyes. Again, she's still beautiful.
@Yaroslav Oh! Thank you! Lol I have never been to that site before so I have no idea how it works. Lol! But thank you! She looks precious, doesn't she!
I knew the hair would look great on her, she looks so sophisticated and really classy. Though my fave is her longer hair, this new cut is growing on me. Excited to see more amazing shoots!
Any chance of download links for the videos, dook? 🙂
bravelittletoaster, if you go to ewva.net, and click on last uploads you’ll find the videos. I haven’t updated the front page. You can download them but only in flv.
Thanks so much dook, I appreciate it!
I absolutely LOVE the Marie Claire interview. I have never known someone to be so grounded and confident. And the photoshoot–she looks gorgeous! I was not really fond of the short hair, either, but I do have to say that it is growing on me! My favorite quote from the preview of the interview has to be, "I've always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can't do it any other way." Awesome. PS: I love the Mulberry Elexa bag. Cute.
WOW!
Have I mentioned that I love this girl? Well, yeah, a million times. But I'll say it again. She's just too cute. People are going to have their opinions, but I doubt Emma cares in the slightest, as it's clear she's enjoying it and having fun with it. If she wasn't going to let her parents stand in her way in getting the role of Hermione, why would she let complete strangers she's never met get in the way of her simply getting a haircut? K.Lo I liked that quote as well, and I think it sums up who Emma is really well. Whenever she has wanted something, she gives it her all and shows extreme dedication to it. And I think that is what helped her be so successful. 🙂
Looking at these recent pics I think the short hair has given Emma a new sexy attitude! She was always beautiful but now she really looks sexy because she feels sexy.
Oh my god! Overload! I miss checking up on the site for one day and we get tons of pics, videos, and interviews! >_< … ^_^
she's so mature and cool
please can u put the text of what she is saying in that videos, i kinda dont understand half, english is not my native i ll be grateful thank you!
Anna, which video?
YMLE 😥
She is very pretty. I still love her new hair cut. And I will be buying the new Marie Claire mag. 🙂
I agree with Anna. The second video please 🙂
yeah second one please))
As an overweight girl, I am dreading supporting this magazine, because the comments the editor made about overweight people just blew my mind, but Emma did this photoshoot a while ago, long before the editor made this comment, so I'll buy this issue and only this issue. Please don't be on this magazine again, Emma!
Hahaha wow I know I shouldn't laugh but that thing about the student saying 20 points to Gryffindor 🙂 Unfortunately, I can't say I wouldn't have been any better if I were in any of her classes and not be aloud to ask for *something 🙁 She's amazing. I love it 😉
what is she holding up at the end of the video, saying "so good, so good"? looks like a pen…
rofl: In one class, the professor asked students a question, and Watson raised her hand. Just like the fiercely smart, overachieving, always-right Hermione, Watson gave the correct answer. From the back of the room, one of her classmates called out, "Score 20 points for Gryffindor!" 🙂 🙂 🙂