New stills of Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller from The Perks of Being a Wallflower have been released.
In an excerpt of an interview from Entertainment Weekly, Emma talks about how Stephen Chbosky convinced her to take the role, and the moment she was truly able to leave Hermione behind.
“At our initial meeting, he said, ‘Okay, not only is this going to be one of the most important parts you play, you’re also going to have the summer of your life and meet some of your best friends.’ I thought, ‘That’s quite a claim. Who is this guy?” Watson says with a laugh. “Everything he said came true.”
The cast — which includes Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller — all bonded while living in the same hotel in Pittsburgh, which Watson now calls one of her favorite places. It was there that Watson can point to one particular scene — when Sam stands up in the back of a pickup truck driving through a tunnel — as the moment she was able to truly graduate from Hogwarts. “I started as Emma with some Hermione still left in my system,” she says. “I went through the tunnel and I came out ready to start something new.”
Check out the whole article in the new issue out tomorrow.
Last night, at the MTV Awards, Logan Lerman discussed kissing Emma for ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’. He says.“It happened in front of a crew, and people were there, and we did it a few times. And that was it. It’s kind of odd when you’re doing it for a movie. It’s kind of weird. She’s cool. It wasn’t as awkward as it could have been. It’s Emma Watson, so I’m a lucky guy.”
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