Emma Watson: "My parents decided not to tell me what I am earning"

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Daniel Radcliffe (who plays Harry), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) have spent the past few days in America doing what sightseeing they can, although it has had to be fitted in around interviews and television appearances.

They are due to appear on America's top-rated daytime talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and I am immediately struck by how much more self-possessed they are than when they gave their first interviews a year ago.

Jason Isaacs, who portrays the villainous Lucius Malfoy, says of the trio: "They are the most famous kids in the world, but they're also the most normal."

The three children sit together in a room at the Peninsula Hotel on a cold, rainy morning and laugh together, share private glances and jokes, and take turns to talk about their lives. The words "cool" and "amazing" feature prominently in the boys' vocabularies, while Emma, like her Hermione character, speaks like a prim young lady.

Daniel, who had previously played David Copperfield in the BBC television series, already talks with the self-assurance of a veteran actor. Thoughtful and articulate - he is currently reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude - he is clearly the leader of the trio, both on-screen and off, although 12-year-old Emma has firm opinions of her own. A star hockey player at school, she is hoping to win an art scholarship.

None of the children has any idea of how much they are earning for the films or how much they are worth, although they all went on a spending spree when their first pay cheques arrived. Daniel, who is a big fan of films and music (particularly the Sex Pistols and the Stranglers), bought himself "a stack of DVDs"; Emma went on "a massive clothes shopping spree"; and Rupert bought "a cool phone with a camera on it and loads of stuff".

But money is not something that occupies their thoughts. "We don't have anything to do with it," Emma agrees. "My parents decided not to tell me what I am earning because it is easier that way."

Source: Telegraph


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