Emma Watson by Nolan David

Author:Nolan, David [David Nolan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843588719
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2011-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

That month, it looked like Emma’s plans for an acting life outside of the Potter franchise were to get another boost. It was announced that she had signed up to star in a feature film – Napoleon and Betsy. The project had been bubbling under for several years with Scarlett Johansson in the role of Betsy Balcombe, a young noblewoman who falls in love with Napoleon Bonaparte while he is in exile on the island of St Helena. Johansson stepped aside when the part was ‘skewed younger’ – the polite way of saying that she was deemed too old – but she remained involved as a producer. ‘It’s a strong relationship but it’s not sexual,’ Emma told the Daily Mail. ‘It’s very complex. A touching of souls. She was a very young girl and he was this older, incredible man.’

But the project floundered – there was even talk of a rival project starring Al Pacino as Napoleon – and has yet to see the light of day.

‘It’s a project I love and am attached to,’ Emma eventually said when it finally looked as if the film was not going to be made. ‘I don’t know if or when it will happen. I hope it does. I’m afraid that’s the nature of filmmaking. You learn not to become too emotionally involved as scripts come and go and many of them never get off the ground.’

In August 2008, Emma got straight-A grades in her A level results in August. For a young woman with such an uneven education – her final coursework was couriered to the set at Leavesden from Headington School – it was an extraordinary result. A message was posted on her website to mark her success: ‘We are absolutely delighted to let you all know that Emma received straight As in her three chosen subjects namely English literature, geography and art!! As you can imagine Emma is absolutely thrilled and we are all very proud of her.’

‘I am very focused and very motivated,’ she said when asked how she managed to combine the two so successfully. ‘So I have tried very hard to combine being an actress with being a student, and so far it has worked out OK. I feel it’s terribly important to continue with my education, in case acting doesn’t work out for me.’

Potter producer David Heyman added his congratulations. He knew better than anyone how disruptive filming had been to her education. ‘She’s a seriously intelligent young lady,’ she said. ‘She got the highest grade in Britain in English in her A level. She’s a fierce mind. In the beginning of the series she was less comfortable with being like Hermione. She was always really smart but when you’re told when you’re young that you’re smart that’s not cool. But now she realises that she’s more like Hermione than she imagined and that’s not such a bad thing at all.’

Her exam success had another effect: it planted the seeds of several interests that Emma would carry into adulthood.

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