'Bling Ring's' Emma Watson Opens Up: 'I feel inadequate'
Emma Watson may be one of Hollywood's hottest and most talented stars but the former "Harry Potter" star can't help but feel "inadequate." In an interview with Rookie, Emma Watson opens up on her character in "Bling Ring" plus what she plans to do after graduating from Brown University.
Despite being quite famous for her films, Emma Watson is one of those Hollywood stars who just feel like it isn't enough. Watson even goes on to add she feels like a "fraud."
"It's called the impostor syndrome. It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going: 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud, and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved. I can't possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone's expectations of me are,'" explains Watson.
Even after the success of "Harry Potter", Watson strives to become more than just a name in the film industry.
"I'm not complaining, because people really have given me permission to evolve and have been very supportive of my work outside of Harry Potter. So I don't feel too suffocated in that sense. But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be," adds Watson.
For those who didn't know, it was Emma's hard work as to why Stephen Chbosky's "Perks of Being a Wallflower" had been produced.
"It didn't even occur to me that it wouldn't be made, because Logan was already attached, and I'd met with Stephen [Chbosky] and it was like he'd been waiting 12 years, really, to make this film. Then I got a call saying that no one wanted to back it financially. So it took more than phone calls: I actually flew out to L.A. and met with all the different studio heads and basically pitched the movie, which was crazy-I'd never done anything like that before in my life," stated Emma.
Apart from filming the upcoming flick, "Noah", opposite Logan Lerman once more, Watson is also busy with her college degree. The "Bling Ring" star wishes to follow the footsteps of famous authors J.K. Rowling and Stephen Chbosky with her own author name.
"I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name - just because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed. I was 15 or 16 then, and I'm now 23," explains Watson.
