For more than a decade, Emma Watson was known to the world as the clean-cut Hermione in the multi-billion-dollar Harry Potter franchise. Now, we’re introducing the 22-year-old superstar as you’ve never seen her before. In the May issue of GQ, out 4 April, Watson talks stardom, sex and stalkers with Dylan Jones. Plus, see her stunning cover shoot in character as Nicki, her pole-dancing, thieving Valley vixen in Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, shot by Mark Seliger.
“When I read the script and I realised that essentially it was a meditation on fame and what it’s become to our society, I had to do it,” says Watson of The Bling Ring. “The character is everything that I felt strongly against – she’s superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She’s all of these things and I realised that I hated her. How do you play someone you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.“
There was another reason Watson chose the risqué role: it wasn’t a period drama. “Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset because I was worried I’d never get out again,” she says. “I knew it would be a really comfortable thing to do, but I felt… I had to dive into something really different. This has been a really big departure for me; it’s a really big character. That’s so exciting for me because it meant I was really acting.“
Read the full interview in the May 2013 issue of British GQ, out on 4 April. British GQ is also available on the iPad, Google Play and Kindle Fire. [source]
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