Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Emma Watson shares BTS video of Financial Times photoshoot with her brother Alex + HQs + interview

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  • Emma shared the video below in her Instagram stories. 
  • I added the HQ photos from the photoshoot in the gallery
  • The Spirit Business had an exclusive interview with Alex and Emma (mainly Alex). Nothing new from Financial Times.
- Emma says it's a family project and loved creating something with her brother, that she's proud about the eco-friendly nature of the project, from the up-cycling, to the mushroom packaging, to the carbon-neutral status because it's a passion for her
- Alex says Emma was in charge of "everything creative", she pushed them to "do things as mindfully as possible, thinking about our values and our impact", and that Emma and him grape harvested for the first when she was 6 and him 4. Check the original source for the whole interview.
  





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73 comments:

Anonymous said...

lovely x

Anonymous said...

Shes amazing very cool

Anonymous said...

Press has now started to pick it up.
Some articles are pretty good see EW https://ew.com/movies/emma-watson-felt-caged-by-acting-career/ and IndieWire https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiVmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmluZGlld2lyZS5jb20vMjAyMy8wNS93aHktZW1tYS13YXRzb24tc3RlcHBlZC1hd2F5LWZyb20tYWN0aW5nLTEyMzQ4MzQwMzYv0gFaaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaW5kaWV3aXJlLmNvbS8yMDIzLzA1L3doeS1lbW1hLXdhdHNvbi1zdGVwcGVkLWF3YXktZnJvbS1hY3RpbmctMTIzNDgzNDAzNi9hbXAv?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

Others are annoying and just focus on the caged piece and not mention that she’ll return to acting.
Variety has said about returning to acting but nothing about the 2024 film, I’d imagine they are holding to announce it

Tin said...

Eden do you know what breed of dog Sophia is? Or anyone else?

Anonymous said...

https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1653491087267319815 this quote feels new? i dont recall her saying 'but im happy to just wait' if no new roles come around? is the 2024 casting already being walked back??

Anonymous said...

Is 2024 when the movie will be released or when she starts shooting?

Also, does it mean is returning to acting in general or just for this movie so far?

Eden said...

"Eden do you know what breed of dog Sophia is?"

Nope

"this quote feels new?"

Nope. It's from the Financial Times interview

"Is 2024 when the movie will be released or when she starts shooting?"

The article says early 2024 is when she'll begin shooting. But if it's early enough and post-production isn't too long, 2024 could also be when the movie's released.

"Also, does it mean is returning to acting in general or just for this movie so far?"

You know as much as we all do here.

Anonymous said...

Sofia is a mixed breed (and very very cute :-)).

Anonymous said...

people are freaking out a bit because hamnet wasnt the role
but she could have met any other number of directors in LA this year
we only heard of one meeting that might have not been a meeting at all but two women hanging out for fun

Anonymous said...

I haven’t seen anyone freaking out just mild disappointment.
Also Hamnet has other roles, just because she wouldn’t be lead doesn’t mean she can’t be in it.
To be honest I’d expect her to work with someone like Stephen again where she’d have lots of input

Anonymous said...

Emma's dog seems to be
half German Shepard (the coloring, snout, ears, and short hair) and a border collie because he is so small or some kind of terrier. I definitely see German Shepard though, maybe borderline collie because he is so small. Whatever she is, Sophia is cute.

Anonymous said...

Sofia is mixed breed, which is typical as she was a street dog before Emma rescued her.
she landed on her paws getting Emma!! (Did really well)

Anonymous said...

https://apnews.com/article/ed-sheeran-copyright-marvin-gaye-52a4f756f070a72f21a943659aeb132e?taid=6453e7cc221b4700010cdda6&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter ed won his case so emma can work with him easily

Anonymous said...

Didn't Harry Styles just release a music video? Maybe it'll be one of his.

Anonymous said...

Emma’s IMDb pro profile has her listed as actress for tv series Dynamo-Mind over Magic with Samuel L. Jackson. I haven’t seen any news around it. The series is listed under production company “expectation”, @eden do u know anything about it!

Anonymous said...

On Renais, they’ve already sold out the 3.5k limited edition bottles and are now selling the regular first batch bottles a month early to meet demand (the regular bottles of the first batch were meant to start selling in June!)

Anonymous said...

So if not hamnet what movie?

Eden said...

"Emma’s IMDb pro profile has her listed as actress for tv series Dynamo-Mind over Magic with Samuel L. Jackson. I haven’t seen any news around it. The series is listed under production company “expectation”, @eden do u know anything about it!"

I'd say 90% chance of it being bullsh*t.

Anonymous said...

She could easily still be in Hamnet just not Agnes. Films have more than one role…

Anonymous said...

Emma has seen Dymano live at events in the past, not sure if she’d appear in his tv series. The IMDb listing (which is why it shouldn’t be trusted - pro or otherwise) likely comes from this, where it’s simply mentioned she’s seen him in the past:
https://deadline.com/2023/05/dynamo-sky-new-magic-series-1235355154/amp/

Anonymous said...

people credit emma in nonsense on IMDb all the time i recall we heard she was in Turkish tv drama and Bollywood movies from there lmao

Anonymous said...

This is why people said her having her agent and publicists dets on IMDb didn’t matter or not. It’s because whilst useful by some people the roles are often BS.
Dynamo is a magician. He sometimes has celebs in his shows but doubt Emma is in it.

Eden said...

Do people remember when IMDB said she was supposed to play in Power Rangers as the pink one? XD That was around 2006/2007 I think.

Anonymous said...

you don't leave acting for 5 years and then get a lead role in an Oscar-bait kinda movie as soon as you come back unless you are Meryl Streep or daniel day lewis lol
as others said it was always likely she is a supporting role

Anonymous said...

Dynamo is an illusionist, it's not a narrative series.

Anonymous said...

For all we know she might just be in the audience.

Anonymous said...

that was because emma dressed as pink ranger at a dress up day at her school people ad jokes to imdb credits often anyone can edit it if they have an account

Anonymous said...

she ha snow confirmed she wasn't looking for roles last few years so its obvious you don't leve contact details on your imdb anymore xd

Anonymous said...

Dynamo: mind beyond magic is new show that magician dynamo announced just a day or two back. In his 2018 show, couple of celebrities participated so this could be participation credits… whenever it goes into production later this year.

Anonymous said...

if a tv show uses archival footage of Emma or mentions her some other way she also gets a credit on IMDb

Anonymous said...

if not hamnet i think it will be some other book to movie adaptation its a core genre Emma does often

Anonymous said...

id love emma in power rangers show tbh xD

Anonymous said...

whats the perks of a wallflower guy doing these days i think Emma would work with again for sure

i just feel perks was maybe her best post hp experience and when she was happiest working on a movie dunno just a feeling i have

Anonymous said...

hmmm....I thought IMDB changed rules around editing stuff but maybe im wrong

Anonymous said...

She only had the meeting with Chloe Zhao at the end of March. The FT interview was done in France, likely last year.

Anonymous said...

https://alpanortho.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sorcerer16.jpg

Eden can you change emma calendar from bored hermione to this pic and 'unannounced 2024? movie? lol

Anonymous said...

good point

the interview she had was September 2022 when she mentions a new 2024 movie

so whoever she is working with was likely met in 2022 not in 2023

Eden said...

The interviewer says "My last meeting with Alex Watson takes place in a café [...] in the chill of London Winter. [...] It's the eve of his 30th birthday"

So December last year.

Anonymous said...

chloe could be a red herring and was maybe just a hang out lunch and not business

Eden said...

"https://alpanortho.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/sorcerer16.jpg

Eden can you change emma calendar from bored hermione to this pic and 'unannounced 2024? movie? lol"

XD Will do after I'm done eating.

Anonymous said...

yes he 'last' met alex in December but the first meeting with him and Emma was earlier i know i read September somewhere for the date, but yeah it was in 2022 at any rate when she first heard she could be doing a 2024 movie

Anonymous said...

"The interviewer says "My last meeting with Alex Watson takes place in a café [...] in the chill of London Winter. [...] It's the eve of his 30th birthday"

So December last year."

Yeah, so the Hamnet announcement was just a coincidence. It was more likely to do with Zhao's Women In Film project.

Anonymous said...

XD Will do after I'm done eating.

yay! haha

Anonymous said...

In the FT interview, after talking about the MA she will begin in September, it says:"The last time we spoke for this article, in March, her plans to return to acting had become more concrete, with a movie that, all being well, will begin shooting in early 2024." So the project (whatever it is) materialized in March.

Anonymous said...

yeah pretty sure its still hamnet guys, just not the lead

Anonymous said...

awww its so cute seeing smiling hermione on the calendar now XD

thanks eden!!

Anonymous said...

Zhao signed up to direct Hamnet in April.

Anonymous said...

Who knows, maybe Hamnet is the movie Emma created her production company for.

Anonymous said...

Well the article doesn't actually quote Emma saying she's acting in the movie, the writer might have just assumed.

Eden said...

I feel like it's one of those things Emma would have spoken about and rectified on social media if it had been false.

Anonymous said...

It took a retirement rumor for her to speak out on the engagement rumor. She has more of a habit of letting stories die out.

Anonymous said...

Alex Bilmes is a major journalist, editor of esquire magazine and has worked with and interviewed Emma before. He was clearly invited to come to france and do the article as she’s trusts him.
That’s not the kind of thing he’d get wrong

Anonymous said...

New film shooting in the spring isn’t something you assume

Anonymous said...

I meant assumed that she was acting in it rather than just producing. She hasn't spoken publicly about registering those companies.

Anonymous said...

Chloe Zhao’s immediate project is most likely Dracula, for which she’s done writing the script.

Anonymous said...

Brandon Wallace’s instagram is now private BTW…weird considering it was public before and he has a decent amount of business stuff on there

Anonymous said...

I’d love to see Emma in book to movie adaptations of ‘invisible life of addie larue’ or the apartment or housemaid.

Anonymous said...

Given how she spoke about directly the music video and they had spoken about her acting career having been on hold but she was waiting for the right thing, she clearly then gave him an update that she had found what she wanted to act in next.
It’s not something he’d confuse.
People need to stop panicking just because we haven’t heard what it is immediately, we might not hear for sometime and knowing Hollywood and the writers strike it might well get pushed back

Anonymous said...

Given they had spoken about her return to acting and if/when she’d do it I doubt he assumed anything. And she must be pretty certain about it to tell him given her comment earlier in the interview with her dad not to say anything that you wouldn’t want in the article. She clearly wanted it in!

Anonymous said...

fans probably commenting about emma on wallace posts and he is like 'hmm lets end that' lol

Anonymous said...

Wallace has also been a lot less forthcoming about where he is (he’s held into photos and posted when he’s somewhere else and then his story doesn’t match either. He’s also posting less.
As others said he’s account is used very much as business promo.
I think him and Emma are dating again.
They are very close from elsewhere on IG

Anonymous said...

News probably about to go mainstream again that they’re dating. Might have thought they were papped so turned it private.

Anonymous said...

Brendan’s IG going private is a big dating flag to me

Anonymous said...

Well he has 16 thousand followers so I doubt he did it to post secret Emma stuff.

Anonymous said...

He was being questioned by fans for sure

Anonymous said...

News of them reconciling already broke about a month ago I dont think he only just learned people are aware of it now ? he could go private for other reasons.

Anonymous said...

his twitter is still fully open and says she's going to New Zealand soon, im guessing he locked insta so fans cant look at his followers on there specifically as it might have info he wants private

Debs said...

He's still pretty open on his other social media about what he's doing and where he's at

tbh it seems more like people bothered him on insta compared to his other accounts than him hiding that he could be with Emma

they seemed to meet up in March and left each other company again already

he is on some big media tour across the world giving interviews looks like and Emma is in LA maybe hunting roles or working on her production company

Anonymous said...

Wallace was in Spain on her birthday, after he was in washington... and when you start with a person you want to spend special days with them, it's one thing to be friends with benefits and another to be boyfriends, Green were a good example. Don't use the label "boyfriend" for every man next to her.

Anonymous said...

"says she's going to New Zealand"

you meant "he's" going to NZ soon? not emma right? lol

Anonymous said...

Yeah I looked at his twitter too its him going to New Zeland, he is giving talks about sustainability in the tech world all over the place

Anonymous said...

Emma relationship rarely works with boyfriend that was busy, I think she's not comfortable with Long distance relationships

So I don't think she and Wallace were a thing

Anonymous said...

However if Emma is looking for a stay at home husband, I'm up for it😁