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Emma in My Week With Marilyn
Trademark Films and the Weinstein Co announced today that filming has started on the movie My Week with Marilyn. We told you previously that Emma was rumored to be part of the cast, and today’s press release does indeed include “Emma Watson” in the list of cast members. So this rumor appears to be true. Hopefully we’ll hear something from Emma soon.
My Life with Marilyn is a real life story about Colin Clark, assistant to Laurence Olivier, and his nine days of contact with Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl. Emma is said to play Lucy, a wardrobe assistant, who had a few dates with Colin. Prinicipal photography will last seven weeks at Pinewood studios and locations in London. This should be a small role, so it would be possible for Emma to film her scenes during a short break from university. Thanks Alex for the tip.
From the press release
Friday 8th October, London. Trademark Films and The Weinstein Company have announced that principal photography has started on My Week with Marilyn for 7 weeks at Pinewood Studios and on location in and around London. Michelle Williams plays the iconic Marilyn Monroe alongside a fantastic British cast including Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson and Julia Ormond. The film chronicles a week in the life of Marilyn Monroe in which she escapes the shackles of her Hollywood career and embraces British life with Colin Clark. Directed by Simon Curtis and produced by David Parfitt, the film is based on Colin Clark’s diaries and has been adapted for the screen by Adrian Hodges.
This and That
Perks of Being a Wallflower
Steven Chbosky, the author of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, spoke about choices in life and “Perks” at Slippery Rock University this past Monday. The university on line paper is reporting that Emma will star in the film along with Percy Jackson Logan Lerman (oops). Filming will begin this December in Pittsburgh, and the expected release will be in 2012. There are no direct quotes though, and no official confirmation from Emma, so I consider it still a rumor.
Vote for Emma
You can vote Emma for Best International Actress in the Capricho Awards 2010. Find the picture of Emma in category 19 and click on the photo to highlight it. Vote in any other categories you are interested in, then click on the floating Votar. Thanks to EC for the tip.
Portrait magazine is holding their annual Top 30 Under 30 poll and you can vote for Emma here.
Scans
Thanks to Elmira for a scan of Emma in CIOE38 from Italy.
Behind the Scenes of Deathly Hallows
New behind-the-scenes images from the Deathly Hallows sets and location filming have been released. Scenes incude Hermione’s home, Grimmauld Place, the forest, camping and Godric’s Hollow. Thanks to PotterNewsBR and Snitchseeker.
WB Press shoot
We have three new Deathly Hallows press promotional shots of Emma in UHQ. Warning, the first and last are rather big.
Credit to Celebutopia.
New Hermione Poster – The End Begins
| WB has released new character posters for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows featuring extreme closeups of Hermione, Harry, Ron, Voldemort, Snape, Bellatrix and Greyback. Click the thumb for the the HQ version of Emma’s poster. Thanks to Valentina for the tip. |  |
Emma and the Torture Scene in Deathly Hallows
Last March various media and fan sites visited the set at Leavesden and interviewed a number of actors, producers and crew members. In an excerpt from Leaky‘s set visit report below, David Yates talks about filming the scene in Deathly Hallows where Emma Watson’s character, Hermione, is tortured by Bellatrix, played by Helena Bonham-Carter. There were some powerful moments where Emma really lost herself in the character, and even though it was just acting, he said Emma’s screams were quite horrible to listen to. You can read Leaky’s complete report here. Warning: Spoilers!
There was a moment with Emma… there’s this torturing with Bellatrix and Emma was really keen to do this torturing scene. And I said, ‘It’ll be really great, but we’ll have to be really careful how we do it.’ And she completely gave herself to the process.
What we did was we set up a couple of cameras and Helena got on top of Emma, basically, and was writing ‘mudblood’ on her arm. So she was scoring into her skin. We just let the whole thing roll for three or four minutes… and in those three or four minutes where were some good bits and some not-so-good bits, and there were one or two moments that were really powerful where Emma was just able to let go a little bit and forget, for a moment, that she was acting.
I mean she’s still acting… still performing… but she lost herself in this process for a moment. The screams were quite horrible to listen to. You could feel it on the stage, everyone felt uncomfortable, everyone just stepped back a bit. It was a very odd energy in the room, cause she was exploring, exorcising demons and serving the scene in doing that, and it was really interesting.
Snitchseeker was also present and in their set report, costume designer Jany Temime talks about dressing Emma.
[Emma] went from a child to a teenager to an older teenager, but all the time she kept in mind that she was Hermione. She never asked me for more glamorous clothes. Even when we were doing our cocktail dress, the red dress she knew that it had to be Hermione’s dress and not something that she would wear herself. [It] would be more simple, and it shouldn’t be as glamorous or as fashionable; something that Hermione would wear. She’s good, she’s a good girl.
This and That
| ALA READ Campaign
Emma Watson has joined the American Library Association’s READ campaign, along with co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. The READ campaign encourages children to read with posters of celebrities holding their favorite book. Emma is seen holding Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet in this preview image, courtesy of Snitchseeker. A set of Emma, Dan and Rupert’s poster can be pre-ordered here. Individual posters will be available Oct 16. The ALA is also holding a contest on their facebook page with winners receiving their choice of poster. Update: Now a larger untagged version. |
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Scans
Alyssa sent us scans from the Australian magazine Young, Hot & Famous, and scans from Teen Vogue…
… and from Elmira we have scans of the Russian InStyle and Glamour and one from US Weekly.
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Say You Don’t Want It
We have a new promotional photo from One Night Only’s music video for Say You Don’t Want It which featured Emma. Thanks to IHeartWatson. |
New Deathly Hallows Trio Poster
Warner Bros has released another poster from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. with Hermione, Ron and Harry running through the forest, fleeing from the snatchers.
Update: WB released the poster in high resolution.
