Vogue.com has released a video made during the photoshoot for Emma’s feature in the magazine. The shoot took place the day before her 21st birthday, calling it a ‘massive deal’, poignant and surreal. She also reveals a rather unusual birthday gift she asked for. There have been a lot of comments of how different she looks, and Emma agrees, “I walked over to the monitor and I’ve never seen myself look like this before. It was like “Who’s that girl? Who is that, with the lips?” It’s a great video and I think you’ll enjoy it.

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Emma Watson opens up in the latest issue of Vogue and gives us a glimpse into her real life. She talks about university, Perks, her clothing lines, romance and growing up with Hermione. HP has given her wealth and fame that most can only dream about, but it has come at a cost. “I have had no control over my life,” she says. “I have lived in a complete bubble. And now I’m desperately trying to find my way through it.” With Emma’s drive and determination, I think she will do just fine.
 

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Emma Watson’s New Day

by Amanda Foreman
photographed by Mario Testino

It’s the pixie-cut hair and flawless skin that give her away. Emma Watson is dressed unobtrusively in a cotton flower-print French Connection dress and beige sandals, but she is unmistakable. Fans have accosted her five times in the past half hour alone. Today is the actress’s twenty-first birthday, and she is determined to spend it as she pleases—which means a leisurely mid-morning latte followed by a stroll through the Joan Miró exhibition at London’s Tate Modern.

Emma ignores the stares and continues to chat animatedly about Miró’s willingness to take risks with his art. An avid painter herself—“I love it and have a need to do it”—she can talk eloquently about every picture on the wall. Her favorite is The Farm, a painting once owned by Ernest Hemingway that brought the artist his first taste of success outside Spain. What she admires, Emma tells me, is that Miró was both a draftsman and a painter, unafraid to combine these talents to create something that was simultaneously surreal and hyperreal.

 

 

Her words could just as well apply to what is happening around us. The increasingly febrile atmosphere is, frankly, terrifying as word filters through that Hermione Granger, Emma’s alter ego (who will make her final appearance in this month’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2), is in the building. A raucous band of teenagers turns around and heads straight toward her. “It’s time to go,” she says, and we head swiftly for the nearest exit. Outside, a photographer in a tree starts snapping away until she is inside the car and driving away.

This is not an experience most people would ever wish to repeat, but Emma resumes her breathless discussion as though nothing untoward just happened. “I have to really enjoy the good things because it makes the bad things OK,” she explains. Learning how to put her life into some kind of perspective and carve her own meaning onto it has been the great challenge of the past two years.

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New Deathly Hallows Banners

A couple new banners for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows have be released recently. In one the trio are seen escaping from Gringott’s on a dragon, and the other shows the battle between good and evil on the grounds of Hogwarts.

 

Emma in Lancôme ad and other scans

Ok, not the Lancôme ads we are waiting for, but it is Emma Watson in what appears to be an ad for the brand in the Russian Harper’s Bazaar. Thanks to Elmira for the scan who also sent in scans from the Russian Glamour, and US Weekly.

 

 

Emma on University

Emma, along with some other young stars, was interviewed for an article in the LA Times about young actors and the decision they must make about continuing their education. For most people, a college education is a path to better paying jobs and a secure future. Emma’s financial security is pretty much set, but Emma chose to continue with her education and career at the same time. It’s not been easy.

In March, Emma announced on her site that she would be taking a break from University. “As you know, I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything but recently I’ve had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments has become a little impossible. I’ve decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on Harry Potter (the last one comes out this summer) and to focus on my other professional and acting projects. I will still be working towards my degree… it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought : )” In this latest interview, she explained her decision a little more.

In several recent interviews Emma has said she will return to her studies in the fall.

Emma Watson has her first Vogue US cover in the July issue of the magazine. It’s quite a different look for Emma in these photos by Mario Testino. The issue hits newsstands on July 21. Thanks to Sassy and TFS for the MQ previews.

WB has released 11 new action banners for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 featuring many of the main characters battling in Hogwarts. Check out the banner for Emma Watson’s character, Hermione, below. You can view the rest over on Leaky.

 

Lancôme has released a video of the Trésor Midnight Rose party honouring Emma Watson held back in May. Hundreds of guests attended the party in Paris and we see Emma arriving at the party, making her entrance, dancing to the music and having a good time.

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Announced on Emma’s site, artist Mark Demsteader has now released one of his portraits of Emma as an open edition Giclee print. You can get your own print signed by the artist for £125 (£75 for unsigned) from the Panter & Hall gallery, postage and packaging not included. The print is not framed. Image size is 43 x 28 cm, paper size 55 x 38 cm.

Like the originals, 10% of the purchase price will go to CAMFED International, a charity selected by Emma.

To purchase a print, contact the gallery at enquiries@panterandhall.com or 0207 399 9999.

I’ve added pictures to the gallery from yesterday’s MTV Movie Awards. Emma Watson wore a white Marchesa dress for the red carpet and award ceremony where she presented a sneak peak at Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. After the show she changed into another Marchesa outfit for the afterparty. Thanks to Rose and superiorpics for some of the photos.

 

 

 

Emma Watson attended the 2011 MTV Movie Awards today. She was nominated for Best Female Performance, Best Kiss (with Dan) and Best Fight (with Dan and Rupert against the deatheaters) but sadly the only award to a Harry Potter star went to Tom Felton for Best Villain. Congratulations Tom!

I have a couple videos from the pre-show and the ceremony. In the first, Emma is welcomed to her first MTV Movie Awards by Jim Cantiello, and the second Emma introduces a new clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Sorry, the quality is not as good as I had hoped. I should have more videos up tomorrow along with pictures.

 

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The Sunday Times digital edition has a new interview with Emma Watson for June 5th. She talks about Lancôme, school and and the ups and downs of fame. You can read the article below, but first, a behind-the-scenes video from the Lancôme photoshoots with Mario Testino accompanies the article. In a voiceover Emma talks about being asked to be the ambassadress, the fragrance Tresor Midnight Rose, working with Testino again, and the ‘story’ the advertising campaign tells.

 

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A charmed life

Emma Watson has dropped out of university to front an ad campaign and make a film. Meet a reluctant star finally embracing her fame

On a Tuesday night in the poshest part of Paris, Emma Watson is making her way through a party. I can’t actually see her, only the throng of photographers in her orbit. It’s a peculiar scene. The 400 other guests barely chat, too obsessed with getting a glimpse of Lancôme’s latest “ambassadress”, who was once the world’s most famous little girl. “Hermione!” cries an onlooker spontaneously, while I elbow my way past Alber Elbaz, the Lanvin designer, for a better look. Someone stomps on my foot. I turn around to berate them and discover it’s Mario Testino. It’s getting pretty intense, but then Watson has been famous for much of her 21 years. Perhaps she’s used to being celebrity carrion?

Suddenly, she’s coming towards me, tiny and superpretty in Azzaro. She could easily pass for 15, even in make-up. She shakes my hand and keeps hold of it sweetly, like an anchor. For someone who’s been doing this for years, the nerves still flicker about her face. Her palm is endearingly clammy. “You’re doing well,” I say. “Oh, gosh, I hope so. Look at all this.” She marvels at the stage, the cameras, the champagne-rinsed crowd, her name in enormous neon letters. She looks pleased — and ever so slightly scared.

It’s surprising, really. A year ago, Watson, a terribly nice girl from Oxford, didn’t appear to want this life any more. She finished school, as well as Hogwarts, and put fame on the back burner in favour of a “normal” university existence at Brown, an Ivy League college in Providence, Rhode Island. Now, she is taking a term off, back in glitz’s grasp, the face of a luxury brand and filming a movie. With a reported £20m in the bank, she could afford to retire. So why bother? “See you tomorrow,” she says, bestowing two shy kisses on me before she is instantly enveloped by the crowd.

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