In a new interview with ET Canada, Emma Watson talks about college life and Sam, her character in Perks of Being a Wallflower.
You need the Flash to see this video.
New Perks Clip – A Toast to Charlie
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.
You need the Flash to see this video.
Watson Weekly Issue 20
Watson Weekly 20 is now online. In this issue: Last chance to buy from Emma’s People Tree collection, The Perks of Being a Wallflower has a new cover, and a premiere, and more fan art and graphics.
Perks at TIFF and More Stills
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.
Perks Set Interviews
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.
New Interview and Photos with Emma in New York Times
The New York Times has a new interview with Emma in their T-Magazine – Women’s Fall Fashion issue. Emma talks about working on her American accent for Perks, continuing her education and acting, and dealing with fame. The article includes a new photoshoot by Alasdair McLellan.
Update: Added another photo from the magazine. Thanks for the tip Cathe.
The Graduate By WILL SELF | August 17, 2012 New York Time T-Magazine
Emma Watson, the onetime co-star of the most successful movie franchise ever, is a very grateful and a very lucky person. How do I know that? Because I sat down with the 22-year-old in a gastropub in a trendy neighborhood of North London, and in the course of an hour’s conversation she said “grateful” five times and “lucky” eight. True, of those five “grateful”s two were of the “ungrateful” form — yet these were embedded in clauses like “I felt guilty because I felt like that meant I was ungrateful. . . .” So, as you can see, Watson is a young woman who wants it put firmly on the record that she understands human lives are shaken up in the snow globe of uncertainty, and that simply because she’s ended up being covered in golden flakes, she doesn’t take it as her due, oh, no.
September 2012 Calendar Competition
The September calendar competition is now open!
- The size of the calendar should be at least 1024×768. Higher resolutions are good. Widescreen is also allowed.
- Calendars must be in a common graphics format such as jpg, tiff, gif or png.
- It must have Emma-Watson.net and September and it should have the dates. It should be mostly original work, and images used should be respectful of Emma’s privacy.
- The deadline to submit calendars is August 28.
- No more than 3 entries per person please. Please send entries to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com
New Stills from Perks
New stills of Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller from The Perks of Being a Wallflower have been released.
Emma Talks Perks, Pittsburgh and Accents
Here is the full article from Entertainment Weekly we previewed a couple days ago. In addition to the quotes about how she was persuaded to take the roll, and leaving Hermione behind, she also talks about how she enjoyed the shoot, her American accent, and the upcoming Bling Ring. Scans courtesy of Ian Somerhalder Web via IHW, and a higher res scan of the photo from Cine Marcado.
Watson Weekly Issue 19
It’s been a long time since our last issue of Watson Weekly. We started with our e-magazine when the site reopened in 2005 and for a while we were good about putting out issues regularly. After a while it became less and less frequent. It was just too much work. I thought it was a good idea though, and I still do. So, I’d like to give it another try. We’re going to start out with smaller issues than we had in the past. I also want to encourage your participation. In the past, most of the articles were thought of and written by the staff. I’d really like to see Watson Weekly as a magazine from all of us. You can find out more about how to contribute in the magazine.
