The actress was unsure about her movie career after the Harry Potter franchise
Los Angeles:
Harry Potter star Emma Watson has revealed that a university professor once advised her to quit acting.
The 23-year-old actress said that she was affected by questions in the media about whether she could sustain a movie career after the successful Harry Potter franchise in which she played Hermione Granger, reported Entertainment Weekly.
"For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, 'Will they ever be able to play anything else?'," Watson said.
"It gave me a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while. And then a professor told me that they didn't think I should act, either. So I was really grappling with it and wasn't feeling good about it. And then, I don't know... it got so bad and people had put me in a box so much that it started pissing me off. I suddenly wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel, in a way. I'm not sure why that shift happened," she added.
Watson said that she was "unsure" about continuing to act after the franchise ended until she read the script of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.
"Falling in love with that and then having such a great experience on that movie kind of sealed the deal for me. I stopped intellectualising it, and it became much more instinctual," Watson said.
"I just got the bug and got very driven all of a sudden, which I really wasn't before. But I'm so happy. It's all felt very new to me, really," she added.
The 23-year-old actress said that she was affected by questions in the media about whether she could sustain a movie career after the successful Harry Potter franchise in which she played Hermione Granger, reported Entertainment Weekly.
"For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, 'Will they ever be able to play anything else?'," Watson said.
"It gave me a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while. And then a professor told me that they didn't think I should act, either. So I was really grappling with it and wasn't feeling good about it. And then, I don't know... it got so bad and people had put me in a box so much that it started pissing me off. I suddenly wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel, in a way. I'm not sure why that shift happened," she added.
Watson said that she was "unsure" about continuing to act after the franchise ended until she read the script of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.
"Falling in love with that and then having such a great experience on that movie kind of sealed the deal for me. I stopped intellectualising it, and it became much more instinctual," Watson said.
"I just got the bug and got very driven all of a sudden, which I really wasn't before. But I'm so happy. It's all felt very new to me, really," she added.
