This update ranks a mocha. Emma Watson attended the Diesel xXx Rock & Roll Circus Saturday night in New York. Rumor is that Emma and Lindsey Lohan rocked it up back stage. There are even reports she chatted with Chase Crawford although that can't be confirmed. Can't blame though, can we?credit to http://emmadaily.com/ for the pics.
Emma is also the cover girl for Flare Magazine for Nov 2008.. The pictures are really great and the article is also an interesting read.
Article:
"Lady in Waiting"
Juliette Baxter catches up with Emma Watson, England's "It" Girl and newest trend-setter, as she graduates from Harry Potter to Hollywood. Photography by Lorenzo Agius.Finally, a young starlet who doesn't suggest she's "just a regular girl" who happens to be living the dream. Emma Watson, 18, more commonly known as Hermione Granger from the billion-dollar Harry Potter franchise, would have a hard time convincing us she's anything but extraordinary. She's one of the top earning young stars in the world, reportedly pocketing $4 million [note from bravelittletoaster: that would be Canadian dollars] a movie; she's starring in the animated feature The Dale of Despereaux (look for it next month) alongside Hollywood heavyweights Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick; she's a red-carpet fave, sporting Chanel couture often and effortlessly; she's finished her A Levels (that's senior year in the U.K.) with A+ marks; and she considers Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling an inspiration--and a friend."[Rowling's] always told me I remind her of herself, which is so unbelievable because she's so amazing," says Watson, stumbling over her words and the comparison. The best advice she's received from the woman she personally calls "Jo" came when Watson confided in Rowling regarding a major life decision (which she remains elusive about): "Trust yourself. I know you will succeed at anything you do."The evidence of her success is compelling. At nine years old, she was among thousands of girls vying to play the coveted role of Hermione and her eagerness to thrive at the character slowed down shooting during Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. "I wanted everything to be so perfect. I would work so hard to memorize my lines and the scene; we would have to stop shooting because I was mouthing Rupert [Grint]'s and Dan [Radcliffe]'s lines at the same time. That's something I had to get over."Seven years later, the young actor has graduated to blockbuster star status. She's learned to position herself in her best light, she's stopped looking straight into the camera, she knows the different between the key grip and a dolly, and she's just wrapped one of her most challenging scenes in the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, slated for release in July 2009. "I had to cry for the first time when Hermione watches Ron kiss Lavender. It was difficult to bring up all that emotion and hurt in front of a full crew, and not just once, but over and over again from different angles."Watson's not only grown as an actor but also a burgeoning style setter. She's quick to rhyme off her favourite labels: Chanel, Burberry, Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga. "I don't like to look too perfect," she says. "I like to mix and match my own outfits." She's especially proud of the vintage outfit she pulled together with her mom and Harry Potter costume designer Jany Temime for the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (Rachel Zoe, eat your heart out.) She confessed one of her style inspirations is Molly Ringwald in the '80s flick Pretty in Pink. "I just love the way she put things together. It's so different and unexpected."Most importantly, during her tenure playing a role as iconic as Princess Leia in Star Wars, Watson's mastered the media, us included. "What advice would you give teen queen Miley Cyrus?" Diplomatically, and empathetically, she replies: "I would never tell anyone what to do. All I know is that it's hard, really hard [being famous]. One you've invited the media into your life, you have to live with it. Focusing on school helped me get through it."While some young stars are chewed up, spit out and left to negotiate fame on their own, the guiding hand of Warner Bros. studios helped Watson remain levelheaded. She explains Harry Potter movie execs were aware from the beginning they were going to change the course of her life and were sensitive to her needs: since the start, Watson has had the same driver, Nigel ("I just love him"), and on-set Potter hair and makeup team ("They're there first thing in the morning until I take off my makeup at night"); when going out somewhere very public, bodyguards are willingly provided; and shoots are scheduled around her classes and exams, without question. "The publicity department was also very mindful about which media we [Watson, Radcliffe (Harry) and Grint (Ron)] were exposed to. They would send us on media junkets together so we could rely on each other."While she talks, it's clear Watson finds comfort in her costars. "They're very protective," she says, and together they've survived the juggernaut of overnight fame, media scrutiny and the pressure of carrying the weight of the Harry Potter industry. Watson adores their friendship, in and out of character, because both are so honest. "I have a lot of guy friends. I love that I always know where I stand with them." Although destined to headline with Radcliffe and Grint for another two years, she's aware her life as she knows it is shifting. "I am in a transitional period in a lot of different ways. I am changing and making lots of decisions about my future. It's a very exciting and slightly scary time." And there's plenty of speculation buzzing in the blogosphere about her next move--she's planning to go to Cambridge; she's reportedly becoming the poster girl for a major fashion label; and she is set to star in Napoleon and Betsy, as the object of the French emperor's affection, a role originally offered to Scarlett Johansson. Whatever happens next, you can bet we will all be watching.
Also, a lovely article about Emma to finish off the Paris Fashion Week that let us know Emma was planning on an east coast trip to the States to tour universities. And that definitely came true in just a few days!
Fashion writer Derek Blasberg was at Fashion Week and had this to say about Emma in his Style.com blog:The sweetest person I’ve met this Paris fashion week has been Emma Watson, the 18-year-old British actress making her first trek to the Parisian collections. “I’ve been to fashion shows before, like the Chanel show that was in London in December,” she told me. “But this is the first time I’ve been to shows like this. This is my first time at fashion week, and let me tell you, it’s pretty intense.” She’s made a pretty good first run: spending a few hours actually looking at the pictures at Patrick Demarchelier’s exhibit at the Petit Palais (how novel) on Tuesday night, attending Sonia Rykiel’s anniversary fashion show and party (”That was amazing!”), and going to a handful of the big fashion shows, like Giambattista Valli (”I don’t even know where to begin”) and Chanel (”Now, that was a big deal”). But Watson’s got her sights on something beyond mere fashion: After her time in Paris, she’s planning a trip to the East Coast to look at universities.
Shortly after this article the Harvard Crimson told the world that Emma did indeed visit. She left some student distraught that they missed her and at one point, while visiting the English department, students got so out of hand they had to be warned to stay away.
Later that week she was reported to have been seen at Yale, following a visit to Brown University. According to the Yale Daily News, students went nuts just trying to touch her. Some wanted to hide in bushes to get a picture and a few lucky students got to talk to her as she stopped for a chat in the dining hall.
The Harry Potter LJ Community:
She's in the US looking at colleges (my friend at Harvard said she was seen in campus tour groups there a couple of days ago), and sure enough, I walked right past her in the Berkeley Dining Hall at Yale University. Had to do a double take.But yeah, apparently she's considering some pretty top American universities! Which is strange, because for some reason I thought she was enrolling at Cambridge...any insight?I did get to speak with her very briefly, she was with her Admissions-Office-assigned tour guide when I glimpsed her in the dining hall, but looked very low key, very comfortable, and stopped really quickly to say hi to some people who finally realized that it was really her and were waving enthusiastically across the dining hall. Very strange, though, because technically she's the one visiting us!But seriously, you can't get any closer to Hogwarts in the U.S. than at Yale. Good taste, Emma, v. good taste.Quote from student in the updated blog of the Yale Daily News:Saw her walking around with one of the head tour guides, and now she's in the admissions office having an interview. Once I muster the courage (read: creepyness), I'll take pictures from the bushes or save her from being run over by a bus or something.
The Yale Daily News:
After Hogwarts, could Hermione join the Muggles at Yale?Magic came to Yale yesterday as campus was abuzz with excitement over the sighting of Emma Watson, the 18-year-old British starlet of Harry Potter fame, who received a private tour. One student said he spotted Watson eating in the Berkeley dining hall balcony with her “mum” and a Yale student. “People went nuts on campus, trying to touch her,” he said. In a brief conversation with Watson, perhaps better known as the character Hermione, the student said he learned the actress, who received straight A grades on her A-level exams, toured Harvard on Tuesday and Brown on Wednesday. Note to Emma: Yale is Hogwarts. Harvard is Azkaban.
Finally at the end of the working week, Emma was spotted by a fan and fellow blogger at Sarfina's. Then later the Diesel event on Saturday.
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