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connielane at 09:03am on 24/09/2006
connielane at 09:03am on 24/09/2006Here is an article from Newsweek about the OotP film - with a separate Q&A here with Emma Watson.
Not much new about the film itself, but I liked this tidbit from Watson:
David won’t settle for anything that looks like acting [laughs]. What keeps coming up a lot is his search for truth in the characters and the performances. He really wants it to be real.
I do think that the media is making a bigger deal out of her "wavering" than is really warranted. Emma has always been the one of the three who has reportedly taken much more time and deliberation to decide about whether or not to return, and she keeps coming back.
If she is that dubious about coming back, I for one would be sad to see her go. I know she's not to everyone's liking, but I rather enjoy her portrayal of Hermione, eyebrows and all. Perhaps she's not exactly canon!Hermione, but then Rupert is not exactly canon!Ron and Dan is not exactly canon!Harry either.
This comment made me want to reach through the time-space continuum and hug her, though.
[following up on being asked whether she wants to make a lifelong career of acting]
Well, you’re not supposed to have all the answers at 16.
Yeah, but people keep asking me, so I keep thinking I should know. [laughs] Everyone’s just like, “So what do you want to do with your life?” And I’m like, [sigh], ‘Right.’
*pats* Poor thing.
I also loved Dan's comment about Harry being so angry that he just chopped his hair off. :P
Not much new about the film itself, but I liked this tidbit from Watson:
David won’t settle for anything that looks like acting [laughs]. What keeps coming up a lot is his search for truth in the characters and the performances. He really wants it to be real.
I do think that the media is making a bigger deal out of her "wavering" than is really warranted. Emma has always been the one of the three who has reportedly taken much more time and deliberation to decide about whether or not to return, and she keeps coming back.
If she is that dubious about coming back, I for one would be sad to see her go. I know she's not to everyone's liking, but I rather enjoy her portrayal of Hermione, eyebrows and all. Perhaps she's not exactly canon!Hermione, but then Rupert is not exactly canon!Ron and Dan is not exactly canon!Harry either.
This comment made me want to reach through the time-space continuum and hug her, though.
[following up on being asked whether she wants to make a lifelong career of acting]
Well, you’re not supposed to have all the answers at 16.
Yeah, but people keep asking me, so I keep thinking I should know. [laughs] Everyone’s just like, “So what do you want to do with your life?” And I’m like, [sigh], ‘Right.’
*pats* Poor thing.
I also loved Dan's comment about Harry being so angry that he just chopped his hair off. :P
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I agree with you there, connielane. Even though I have some issues with Emma's portrayal of Hermione, I still want to see her in ALL the movies.
On a side note: I hope WB gives the clear to TLC and MN to post their set reports soon.
And I can't wait for the teaser trailer that's coming out in November.
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Which is ridiculous. :P
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I don't want to see any of them go, just because it wouldn't be the same with a different actor. They need to stay together, all of them, until the end.
Emma will have plenty of time to go to college when the last HP movie is done.
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That said, I would like to see her return, too. No, I don't think her recent performance (or maybe I should say, the combination of her performance and the directing and scripting) is anywhere near doing justice to Hermione. I think it's getting farther and farther away, in fact - in the first movie she was great. But at this point - these movies are what they are, they are flawed adaptations with some scattered delightful moments. Recasting now would just be awkward and disrupt the flow of the whole thing - and there's no guarantee whoever she was replaced with would be any better.
So I do hope Emma sticks around, just so this series has some coherence. And I hope I live to see another film adaptation where they really, really get it right. :) (Though I recognize how very hard that is when you're trying to cast actors to play children.)
Emma has always been the one of the three who has reportedly taken much more time and deliberation to decide about whether or not to return, and she keeps coming back.
True, but does past waffling on her part mean she more likely to stay (because she waffled before and still came back) or more likely to go (because she's had doubts for a long time and one day they'll grow too big to ignore)?
Unless it's her agent trying to get her more money... in which case then she is, indeed, fully likely to come back. ;)
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But I hate that this whole thing is the reason we're getting our first real look at the movie. I got my Newsweek yesterday, and it really struck me that the pictures are definitely overshadowed by the title "Harry Potter and the Wavering Costar." Gah. Poor girl. As if it's not a difficult enough decision for her.