On the set of the Harry Potter movies, Emma Watson got into a bit of a habit that forced her co-actors to go back and re-do whole scenes. It’s a quirk that the actress – who played Hermione Granger in all 8 films – has admitted to in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel and it sounds like she’s telling it to us with a bit of a wink.
You can see what I mean by watching a clip from the filming of ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ where a very young Emma Watson – only 9 years old at the time – is quietly mouthing along to Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley). Of course, in the Harry Potter world, someone might think she’s under a spell like this. But, unfortunately, it’s not exactly the sort of skill you see wizards having all the time.
As Kimmel points out to her in the interview, watching the clip – as he is at one point – “You were helping them with their lines!” and she can’t help but chuckle at the memory, but Watson says it was actually pretty stressful for her. She kept messing up the takes because of this, and poor Chris Columbus (who directed the first two films) had to yell “cut” – “Emma, you’re doing it again, say your own lines!” Watson says she’d feel terrible and try to apologize, but it was just something she couldn’t help. “I loved the books and I wanted to do a good job, but I got a bit carried away.”
Meantime, HBO is about to cosy up with the Harry Potter series again in a whole new adaptation, which starts filming in 2025 (though don’t get your hopes up for it coming out too soon). They must be having some fun trying to find the perfect cast to play the characters through their seven years at Hogwarts. And if that’s not enough, Warner Bros. is already mulling over the idea of a second Hogwarts Legacy game – the follow up to the one everyone loved in the 19th century.
