A few more interviews with Emma Watson during The Perks of Being a Wallflower premiere and junket

This first one is quite good. Well, the lighting is terrible, but Emma was quite talkative and some of the questions were interesting. She starts out talking about her first acting experience before Harry Potter, and it’s pretty good all the way through. Update: Added a transcript for the THR interview, see the end of this post.

Another interview from the LA red carpet

We’ve seen some segments of this before, but there’s a new bit where Emma talks about Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence.

Transcript of interview by Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, best that I could do. Excuse any spelling errors.

SF: Well, first of all thank you again, I really appreciate it.

EW: Thank you.

SF: I wanted to see just to begin with if you recall you acted even just for fun, what that might have involved, and then also, as part 2, what led to that first opportunity to do it professionally which I assume was for Harry Potter, how did that come about even?

EW: I’m like trying to think back the earliest time I started[?] performing, I think I did a play called “The Prince and the Swallow”. It was a school play and I got to wear this little red bandanna necktie and I had these like dark eyes as the swallow, and I got to sing, and I had to move around the stage like a bird, and like, I don’t even know[?]. But yeah, that was my first, and then when I was at the same school that did that performance, when the Harry Potter auditioners came and said “Do you have any kids between the age of 9 and 12, 13 that you want to put forward to audition Harry Potter, and my drama teacher put a group of 12 or 13 of us forward, and just in our school gym, we just kind of, we did some drama excercises I guess, and they took my photograph, and they asked… I got a phone call asking me to come to London three weeks later. And I just went on this rollercoaster, I ended up doing… they said they knew they wanted me after 2 or 3 auditions, and I did 9, because they needed to find… it wasn’t just about finding the right person for each character, it was about making sure that the three of us looked right together, and we had the right chemistry, and whatever else. It was a real journey, and when they actually told me I had the part, I couldn’t really, I couldn’t really process it. I couldn’t really believe it because it had been such a long [?], it was such a long time coming, I was just like almost numb. I kind of like numbed myself out to the whole thing. So, yeah that’s crazy.

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There were reports that Emma would not be attending the Los Angeles premiere for The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but that is not the case. If there’s any doubt, she confirmed it today, tweeting “If you guys have a free hour at 6:30 come to the Cinerama Dome Sunset Boulevard and celebrate the Hollywood Premiere of ‘Perks’. C u there!”

Thanks to sparkvark for the following information:

The Cinerama Dome (Arclight Hollywood) on Sunset Blvd.
Film premiere; THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER [Summit Entertainment]. Celebrities expected: from the film, Logan Lerman (PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS), Emma Watson (HARRY POTTER SERIES), Ezra Miller (WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN), Kate Walsh (PRIVATE PRACTICE), Nina Dobrev (THE VAMPIRE DIARIES), writer and director Stephen Chbosky and many others. 5:30 press check in; 6:30 red carpet arrivals; 7:30 screening.

A Sunday morning TIFF portrait session for The Perks of Being a Wallflower with Emma Watson, her co-stars Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller and writer/director Steven Chbosky by Chris Pizzello.

A lot of videos to look through. We have new interviews from the set and the Toronto International Film Festival, clips from The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and some b-roll footage.

Up first we have an interview Emma did last summer on set.

Jakethemovieguy asked some good questions of Emma and Steven Chbosky at the TIFF press junket.

Vanity Fair interviewed Emma.

A couple new clips from the film, “Let’s Go Be Psychos Together”…

…and “Below Average”

A Q&A session with Steven Chbosky, Emma Watson and other cast members after the premiere screening at TIFF. (Credit to ChasingShadowsMedia on youtube)

And finally, some B-roll footage from Perks has also been released. I’ve uploaded it to the video gallery. Click the thumb to check it out.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower premiered today at the Toronto International Film Festival. Emma Watson was in attendance along with co-stars Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Nina Dobrev, Johnny Simmons and writer-director Steven Chbosky. Press began yesterday and reviews for the film have been quite positive. At today’s screening, the film received a standing ovation at the end.

From the red carpet

From yesterdays photocall at the Fairmont Royal Oak Hotel

An interview with Emma and Steven Chbosky

Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller are in Vanity Fair‘s October issue in a feature about The Perks of Being a Wallflower. In a video from the photoshoot they talk about becoming friends, filming the tunnel scene, and the meaning of the movie.

What is it about the Smiths that makes the melancholic 80s band something of a Bat Signal for cultured and cute vintage-wearing dream girls? In writer-director Stephen Chbosky’s new The Perks of Being a Wallflower, a wonderful film based on Chbosky’s own novel, the pixieish, Smiths-adoring love interest, Sam, is played by Emma Watson, in her first significant post-Hermione role. Sam’s suitor, Charlie, is played by Logan Lerman. Perhaps inevitably, he is a clinically depressed introvert who befriends Sam and her punky stepbrother, Patrick—the inestimable Ezra Miller—at a high-school football game. Charlie and Sam soon reveal their shared love of British glum-pop, including the Smiths’ “Asleep,” which is ironic, or appropriate, because the film details how Charlie finally wakes up thanks to Sam’s tender, nonjudgmental companionship. The metaphor is not as heavy-handed as it sounds.

If Hollywood were a high-school cafeteria—a tremendous stretch of the imagination!—the three young leads would most certainly sit at the center of the cool table. Watson and Lerman will next star in Darren Aronofsky’s big-screen adaptation of Genesis chapters 6 to 9, Noah, while Miller will play opposite Mia Wasikowska in Madame Bovary, providing an even greater service to teenagers than showcasing the triumph of the loner: giving them a way around reading Madame Bovary.

In a new interview with ET Canada, Emma Watson talks about college life and Sam, her character in Perks of Being a Wallflower.

A new clip from The Perks of Being a Wallflower has been posted by MTV. In this scene, Patric (Ezra Miller) and Sam (Emma Watson) toast Charlie (Logan Lerman) and welcome him to their group of ‘misfit toys’. Updated with local video.

The schedule for The Perks of Being a Wallflower at the Toronto International Film festival has been announced. The premiere will be at the Ryerson Theatre on Saturday September 8, 6:15pm. There will be an additional showing on Sunday the 9th, 3:30pm, at the Cineplex Yonge and Dundas 7. Emma Watson is expected to attend, along with Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller and Stephen Chbosky.

Three more stills from the movie have been released by Summit Entertainment through Moviefone and Celebuzz. Update: added another I forgot to post earlier.

Last summer writers from several media sites were invited to the set of Perks of Being a Wallflower to interview the cast, and these set reports are now coming out. I’ve pulled out the Emma Watson quotes and listed them below, or you can read the full interview including other cast members at NovelNovice, Buzz Sugar and Hollywood.com.

What attracted Emma to the role

I really started reading scripts maybe after the fourth Harry Potter movie, around the age of 15, 16. And really didn’t read anything that I really loved instantly. And then, it was almost like, you know, not that I’d lost interest, but my agent was starting to get stressed. Pretty sure, I was kind of “Bleh, do I have to read it.” And then I read The Perks of Being a Wallflower and it was so beautifully written and so funny and so incredibly moved by it, and I just instantly knew that (a) the movie had to be made and (b) that I had to play Sam. I really wanted to play Sam. I was just really drawn to her. And so, then I met with Stephen, who, when I met with Stephen, we just instantly clicked and I felt like I was meeting an old friend. And then I met Logan, and I knew he was the perfect Charlie.

Reading the book

I read the script first and then I read the book.  It was so funny because I read the script and I came back to Brown and I told my roommates that I’ve just read this amazing script, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and my friends were like, “Oh, that’s my favorite book. So jealous that you get to play Sam. If I was ever going to be in a movie, if I was ever going to play any character ever, it would be Sam.” I didn’t realize, but similarly to Harry Potter, the books really have this cult following, so that was really interesting, but the response that I get from people who have read the book and really identify with it is pretty intense. It’s kind of amazing to be part of another book to movie product again that has so much love for it in the same way that Harry Potter does.

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