“I was in a cage”: by moving away from Hollywood, Emma Watson freed herself

“I was in a cage”: by moving away from Hollywood, Emma Watson freed herself

The 33-year-old actress has been missing from the screens for four years. Rejecting the prestigious opportunities of Hollywood, she chooses to favor her own voice and cultivate new forms of expression, through writing and theatre. A decision that she remembers today as the best of her life.

If we discovered her at the age of 9 and she then accompanied us throughout our childhood and adolescence, it is clear that Emma Watson then became increasingly rare on screens. The last film of the 33-year-old British actress dates back to 4 years ago, Greta Gerwig was the last filmmaker to play her Dr. March’s daughters in 2019. Emma Watson’s disappearance from the screens is in fact a choice made by the actress.

The reconversion of Emma Watson

In an interview for the Financial TimesEmma Watson confided that she took on the voice of a professional reorientation. The actress admitted that distancing herself from Hollywood, the machine she grew up in, was one of the best things about her life. “I wasn’t very happy, to be honest. I think I felt a little caged.”.

“I was in a cage”: by moving away from Hollywood, Emma Watson freed herself
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In another interview for Vogue UK where she provides the details of these new activities, Emma Watson explains that she took advantage of this break to stage her own theater show (about which she revealed nothing) but also to resume her studies, after a master’s degree in creative writing. These new adventures offered him his spaces of expressiona form of freedom and self-determination that she hadn’t felt when she was an actress:


“I’m so happy I did it [de m’être éloignée du métier d’actrice, NDLR] because I have a feeling have my voice, my creative space and my autonomy, which I think I was deprived of before. »

In this interview, Emma Watson explains that leaving the comfort zone of Hollywood wasn’t easy. She the actress had to say no to several important roles that were offered to her. But she says that this feeling of insecurity lasted only a moment and preceded a profound one flourishing :

“I’m so happy that I let things be uncertain for a minute and allowed myself to not know what was going to happen next. »

“What I learned from this I wouldn’t trade for the world” concluded the interpreter of Hermione, who we are delighted to finally meet blossomed. As for those who continue to love seeing her on screen, rest assured: Emma Watson has not expressed a desire to stop acting.


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