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Emma Watson, at 16 the youngest of the trio, has grown into an attractive young woman over the course of the films, but she is probably the least confident in her own abilities. While she sees a lot of her Hermione Granger character in herself - "We're both very stubborn, determined, loyal, academic feminists" - she believes any acting talent she has is instinctive and is unsure whether it will be enough to carry her on in after Harry.
"I'll feel a bit lost when it all finishes, I guess," she says. "It's hard to imagine life without Harry Potter. It's made up such a big part of my life and dominated so much time. It'll be really weird.
"Never having done an audition before and never having done any professional acting and going into the biggest film franchise of all time, I've kind of come from nowhere and gone straight in at the top. Where do I go from here? I feel like I need to backtrack and work my way through again. I'd be really interested to kind of train properly because I feel I shouldn't be here. I should have done so much more."
What she has gained, however, is valuable experience, and she had grown sufficiently in confidence to ask David Yates, the director of Order of the Phoenix, whether she was contractually obliged to do so many takes. (Yates, who likes 30 or so takes, gave a polite yes.)
"I got thrown in the deep end on the first one, but the Harry Potter films have been a pretty amazing acting school," she says. "When I got the part, the only thing I had apparently was some natural acting ability. I didn't know anything about making a film, and there was so much technically I had to learn and understand.
"I spent the first two films just constantly being in awe, not really knowing if I was doing it right, if I was any good or why I was there.
"I've worked with four directors now, all of different nationalities, ages and personalities and I've worked with animals, with huge amounts of special effects and stunts. And I feel like I've seen and done a lot, so I'm quite lucky and I feel I'm pretty well set up for any other project I take on. This is my fifth time around, and I feel so much more confident in my ability as an actress."
Watson, who was wearing blue Diesel jeans and a pink Chanel top, is being paid a reported £2 million for each of the final two films in the series, but insists that her drawn-out contractual negotiations were not money-motivated. "It was more about juggling my A-level exams, going to university and doing the movies," she says.
Apart from clothes, her biggest expense so far has been a laptop, although she will be buying a car as soon as she has passed her driving test. "I'm taking lessons, but it's so hard," she groans. "I had no idea."
She, too, is eagerly awaiting the final book. "It feels as if I've been waiting for ever. I really want to know what happens. There's a guy who claims he's been able to hack into J K Rowling's account, and he's saying that Hermione's gong to die, and I found myself getting sad. I hadn't contemplated her dying."
Watson, whose parents divorced when she was five, plans to take a gap year, go to university. And then, if things go as planned, with Hermione Granger behind her, she will return to acting. "I'm still growing up, changing all the time, and I hope I'm talented enough to take on another character. I guess that will be a test of whether I can really act."
Credit: Telegraph
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