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About sharing personality traits with Hermione (2011): "I guess earnestness -- eager to please and do the right thing. I'm terrified of getting into trouble. I'm very heady in the same way she is, kind of constantly thinking three or four moves ahead. I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does well, obviously. She's very determined. I am as well. I like to think that I'm very loyal in the same way she is, a bit of a feminist in the same way as she is and I will speak my mind in the same way that she does. It's hard to say, really. I feel so much of me went into her and so much of her went into me that I can't really differentiate between the two too much anymore [laughs]."

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New Regression Poster and Queen of the Tearling Sequel

Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
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Fear Always Finds Its Victim

A teaser poster for Emma Watson’s upcoming Regression was posted on her facebook fanpage. The film, by Alejandro Amenábar, also stars Ethan Hawke and David Thewlis.

 

Queen of the Tearling

The Invasion of the Tearling, the second book in Erika Johansen’s series, was released today. Snitchseeker recently interviewed the author and asked her about Emma playing the lead in the film adaptation.

SnitchSeeker: Emma Watson is attached to play the lead, but in the books Kelsea is a bit overweight and doesn’t seem to fit the type. Is that an issue with you?
Johansen: Not at all. I was worried that they were going to pick a bad actress to play her – one of the various 18 to 25 set that I really feel can’t act. So when Emma Watson’s name came up, I was very excited. I wanted first and foremost a good actress who was actually intelligent for the role. I made Kelsea, for want of a better word, plain – that was a personal decision for me. But when it comes to movies, I understand it’s a very different world than the book. A book can do things it can’t and vice versa. So I never expected them to cast a plain unknown actress in the role. I was very excited just because, Emma Watson, she comes across as so smart in everything she says and does, and that is an integral feature of my heroine that I felt she would be able to really project.

SnitchSeeker: Our readers would agree with you.
Johansen: I can’t see her playing a stupid character. I don’t see it working out.

Snitchseeker also spoke with Johansen’s literary agent, Dorian Karchmar, about Emma’s involvement as star and executive producer.

“A pair of film agents at William Morris Endeavor, whose literary department represents Erika, read and fell in love with the debut in the wake of the book sale. With its interesting world-building and complex characters, including Kelsea Glynn, the flawed, compelling young queen at the center of the series, they hoped it might capture the imaginations of producer David Heyman and Emma Watson, who were looking to team up on a new project. It was incredibly exciting when Heyman, who has a first-look deal with Warner Brothers, and Watson both responded with great passion — Watson was so taken with the debut that she attached herself not only to star, but to executive produce. Screenplay writer Mark L. Smith has been brought on to adapt the book.”

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Emma on Colonia, Beauty and Queen of the Tearling

Friday, March 13th, 2015

In the latest issue of TotalFilm, Emma Watson talks about her upcoming films Colonia, Regression, Beauty and the Beast and Queen of the Tearling, as well as HeForShe, gender equality, her path and life and future direction. The May issue of TotalFilm is on sale now.

 

On Colonia:

“I got sent the script and my agent sent me the Wikipedia page on Colonia Dignidad. I immediately went, ‘Oh my God, I’m not sure!’ It was really, really, really heavy and really awful subject matter, but the script was such a page-turner and so well written and I’m really a big fan of Daniel Brühl. I really liked the director [Florian Gallenberger]. It all just kind of felt right: a really intelligent female leading role character. It felt like the right thing to do. It really challenged me. It really pushed me to the brink, this role. I was essentially playing a girl living in a concentration camp. It’s tough emotionally, putting yourself in that place every day. So it was gruelling. But I really wanted to try. I really hope I’ve done it justice for people who actually really lived it and really experienced it.”

 

Beauty and the Beast

“I sing, so that’s really unexpected. I’ve never had to do that for a film role before, and I think people will be interested to see me do something very different like that. It gives me a different challenge, really. That’s terrifying in and of itself!”

 

and Queen of the Tearling

“I really like it. For me, to want to sign up to a series again, I wanted to have a certain amount of autonomy and control within that. Working with David’s been great. I’d love to direct something one day. I’d love to produce as well, so it’s quite a nice way to start learning about that. Yeah, just dipping my toes into that world.”

 

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Queen of the Tearling Update

Tuesday, July 8th, 2014

Emma Watson will play Kelsea Glynn in the film adaptation of Erika Johansen’s upcoming Queen of the Tearling trilogy. The story is of a young woman, “raised by foster parents in a cottage hidden away in a remote forest. On her 19th birthday, Kelsea is removed from her home to take her rightful place as sovereign of a fictional post-utopian country that hides dark secrets and is menaced by a neighbouring monarch.”

“Before filming, Emma will have to learn to ride a horse, bulk up (not too much), and do weeks of combat training (including knife work and swordsmanship). She’ll also be taught how to snare rabbits and practise climbing trees. The Queen Of The Tearling is like Game Of Thrones and The Hunger Games meets Pulp Fiction; there’s a feminist perspective, but also a lot of bloody goings-on.”

David Heyman will produce, with Emma as an executive producer. A script is due soon and then a search for a director will begin. No projected filming date has been announced.

The first part of the Tearling trilogy will be published this month, July 8 in the US and July 17 in the UK.

DailyMail

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Emma in “Queen of the Tearling” Trilogy

Thursday, June 13th, 2013

Emma Watson is attached to star in The Queen of the Tearling, adapted from a fantasy trilogy by Erika Johansen, according to a report in Variety. Harry Potter’s David Heyman will produce the Warner Bros. project and Emma will be executive producer.

The trilogy is said to be similar to Game of Thrones. “Set three centuries after a small portion of the human race has populated a landmass that mysteriously emerged in the wake of an environmental catastrophe, the series follows nineteen-year-old princess Kelsea Glynn, who must reclaim her deceased mother’s throne and redeem her kingdom, the Tearling, from forces of corruption and dark magic of The Red Queen, the sorceress-tyrant of the neighboring country, Mortmesne” The books have not been published yet (Harper Collins, 2014) and no director or scriptwriter has been selected so the project is in early development.

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