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Watson has well and truly left Harry Potter character Hermione Granger behind her as she undertakes her latest role in The Bling Ring, based on the real life story of a teenage gang who robbed many inhabitants of Hollywood.
Playing a young thief doesn’t come especially natural to the actress. Her adolescence was spent in front of cameras, but even before that she admits she wasn’t too wild.
“I’ve always been a very serious child,” she says. “I remember being 13 and girls in my class saying ‘So-and-so is going to kiss so-and-so on the school fields.’ I said, ‘That’s stupid. They’re too young for it to matter—he doesn’t even love her, and that’s just a waste of time.’ It’s amazing that I had any friends!”
She adds: “I’ve never wanted to grow up too fast: I wanted to wear a sportsbra until I was 22! The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I’ve never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.”
She’s really had to step outside of her comfort zone to play Nicki in The Bling Ring. “Nicki is so different from me,” she says. “How do I try and understand a young woman who loves these things so much that she is prepared to commit crimes to have them?”
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Posted by Amy Power.