The Bling Ring

The final poster for The Bling Ring has been released.

From UHP, Emma will be at the Cannes Film Festival May 16 to introduce the movie, and there will be a press conference. The Bling Ring opens the Un Certain Regard section at this years festival.

The Bling Ring will also close the Seattle International Film Festival which takes place May 16 through June 9.

Chronicles of a Harry Potter Fan

We previously reported on the book Chronik eines Harry Potter Fans written by Thomas Sailer. Written in German, the book tells of his experience working on Emma Watson Empire and other HP fan sites. Now translated to English, Chronicles of a Harry Potter Fan is available as an ebook. More information and a link to purchase from Amazon are on the author’s site.

Rumours and other bits

A photo of an invitee list for the Costume Institute Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum lists Emma as one of the many celebrities attending this years benefit gala which takes place Monday the 6th.

Emma will cover the August issue of Teen Vogue according to fashion journalist Jim Shi.

Emma Watson is 2nd on Glamour’s Best Dressed Women for 2013. She follows Kristen Stewart for the second year in a row.

Emma Watson has the cover feature in the May issue of British GQ magazine. In the interview Emma talks about The Bling Ring and includes new photos, in character as Nikki, by Mark Seliger. Thanks to Vogue.co.uk and Roberto for the images, and an excerpt of the interview below from www.gq-magazine.co.uk. Read the full article in the May issue on sale tomorrow, April 4. Also available on iPad, Google Play and Kindle Fire.

“When I read the script and I realised that essentially it was a meditation on fame and what it’s become to our society, I had to do it,” says Watson of The Bling Ring. “The character is everything that I felt strongly against – she’s superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She’s all of these things and I realised that I hated her. How do you play someone you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.”

There was another reason Watson chose the risqué role: it wasn’t a period drama. “Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset because I was worried I’d never get out again,” she says. “I knew it would be a really comfortable thing to do, but I felt… I had to dive into something really different. This has been a really big departure for me; it’s a really big character. That’s so exciting for me because it meant I was really acting.”