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Ever the BAFTA beauty, Emma Watson braved the rain as she attended the 2009 Orange British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House in London on Sunday (February 8).

Wearing a lovely black Alice Temperley gown with intricate silver flower detail topped off with an embroidered black overcoat, the “Harry Potter” starlet happily posed for pictures and spoke with press on-hand.

On the red carpet, Emma said: “I love the Baftas. It’s amazing. It’s like a celebration of what I do so it’s incredible. It’s been fun getting ready, I’ve had my hair and make-up done and I got my dress.”

“The Baftas are very important. For us here, we don’t often have the support we need to get small British films off the ground so anything that promotes us, I think it’s wonderful,” she added.

When asked about her future plans, Miss Watson replied: “Obviously I’m looking at universities and reading lots of scripts and meeting with producers and trying to make a good decision about what my next move should be. I might be going to America – I’m looking at schools over there – but obviously I’m waiting to hear, to find out where I’ve been accepted and if I’ve been offered a place. So nothing’s been decided yet.”

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Actress Emma Watson vaulted to fame as the whip-smart, wizard Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. The character embodies many of Watson’s own traits. She is studious, serious and confides in new wide ranging interview that she is having trouble coming to grips with her own budding sexuality.

The 18-year-old says stylists put her in mini-skirts and she has been deluged with offers to do films with nude scenes, but vowed: “I’m not just getting my kit off for anyone.” Yet she was photographed on her 18th birthday party in provocative crotch-exposing poses. She explains for the first time how that came about.

“Let’s be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again. It’s only just recently that I’ve really come round to the idea of carrying on with acting at all. I knew I was the perfect nine-year-old to play Hermione. But I was concerned that all would come out after that was Hermione. And if that had happened – well, I would know I couldn’t act. And then that would be it,” she says in interviews in the UK’s Sunday Mail and Telegraph newspapers.

Watson says she has little interest in fame or recognition. She was born of Oxbridge parents and now she’s considering an Oxbridge place herself, with a bright mind, bright looks and $18 million in the bank. She prefers academic diversions like English and Philosophy at a Cambridge college when she gives her perspective on her notorious coming-of-age 18th birthday party in Hollywood last year.

“It was pretty tough turning 18,’ she says. ‘I realized that overnight I’d become fair game. I had a party in town and the pavements were just knee-deep with photographers trying to get a shot of me looking drunk, which wasn’t going to happen. I don’t have to drink to have a good time. The sickest part was when one photographer lay down on the floor to get a shot up my skirt.

“The night it was legal for them to do it, they did it. I woke up the next day and felt completely violated by it all. That’s not something I want in my life. I just kept thinking that if it had happened a day earlier people would have sued their a***s off.”

‘I find this whole thing about being 18 and everyone expecting me to be this object… I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot people desperately want to change me – dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe.

“Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that,” she says.

Of course on the night she was photographed, Watson was wearing the shortest of skirts and see-through panties that clearly exposed her private parts. But she hasn’t repeated the scene since, although if she hopes to transition to adult film roles, she will be have to consider how to go up against Hollywood’s sexiest bad girls, like Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Lohan, all of whom have had repeated episodes of paparazzi-teasing flashes of nudity in public.

And, her male Harry Potter stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Peter Grint have already done nude scenes, either in movies on in Radcliffe’s case on the Broadway stage.

In an earlier interview, however, Watson told the Times of London she would not have a problem doing film nude scenes if the role is right. Like many child actresses, Watson must deal with perceptions of her as a child in her movies while dealing with the fact that she has become a grown woman, who now must find grown-up roles.

“I’m at a strange age… I’m not a woman yet, but I’m not a girl anymore,” she told the Times of London in an interview. “[Film companies] say, ‘Oh, in a couple of years you’ll be perfect for this.’ I’ll be like, yeah, but I want to be studying English then, so it’s going to be quite tough to choose between the two.”

Part six of the Warner Bros series, “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince,” will be released this July and the final two-part installment, “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows,” is filming now.

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It appears Emma Watson wants to change her image. The teen actress, who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the “Harry Potter” film franchise, has posed in her underwear for a sexy new photo shoot.

The pictures were taken by German-born photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Some of the shots show the 18-year-old girl getting busy putting make-up on her face. Emma is also seen dancing with a guy in another photo.

Emma Watson previously told Britain’s Sunday Times that she would shed her clothes for the right filmmaker, saying, “Yes. For Bernardo Bertolucci. It… depends. I’m not getting my kit off any time soon, but it is part of my job.” The actress also thinks she is “at a strange age”. “I’m not a woman yet, but I’m not a girl any more,” she admitted. Celebrity-Mania.

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Growing up on screen is proving to be a challenge for Rupert Grint, who tells Mandrake that he is dreading filming romantic scenes with Emma Watson, his co-star in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

“As I’ve known Emma for so long, I reckon it will be 10 times worse,” says the 20-year-old actor, who plays Ron Weasley.

“I really love the seventh book, but there is no way it will be tame with the Hermione stuff.”

The kiss, which is due to be filmed next month, should have been a walk in the park for Grint after his graphic performance opposite Kimberley Nixon, a 23-year-old Welsh actress, in the forthcoming film Cherrybomb. The actor compares them with the nude scenes that Daniel Radcliffe is currently performing on stage in New York.

“I don’t think it’s quite up there with Dan’s Equus, but it was quite a surreal experience, especially as we were sharing the bed with half a dozen camera crew,” he says. “But, yeah, I was quite nervous, I think we both were.

“It was a new thing for the two of us – though, weirdly, I remember Kim and I doing a crossword in between takes. That definitely took our minds off the deed.”

He now hopes that Emma, 18, who plays the brainy Hermione Granger, will be similarly distracted. “I’ll have a stack of crosswords at the ready,” he says.

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‘Harry Potter’ star Emma Watson, who is worth £2.8 million, says her friends never let her treat them when they go out and hate it when she gets recognised in public.

Emma Watson, who is worth £2.8 million, says her friends never let her treat them when they go out.

The ‘Harry Potter’ star – who has become one of Britain’s richest teenagers thanks to her role as Hermione Granger in the hit wizard film franchise – admits her fortune can sometimes cause problems among her pals.

She said: “My friends are very proud like that, that’s why I love them. They would be embarrassed if I paid for stuff, and if I ever try, they always say, ‘What are you doing? I want to pay half.’ ”

Emma, 18, also revealed her friends find it difficult when fans approach her in public.

She added to website Movies.ie: “It’s weird for them, especially when people recognise me and come up to me. It’s awkward for them but they are very good about it.

“My friends are very protective, which is sweet.”

The talented star – who recently voiced a character for animated movie ‘The Tale of Despereaux’ – also revealed there are positive and negatives to her worldwide fame.

She said: “The best thing about being involved in ‘Harry Potter’, is that you can make a six year old girl or boy’s day by giving them a handshake and it’s so easy. It costs me so little to make someone incredibly happy so that’s amazing and I’ve walked away and thought, ‘God I’m so lucky to be in a position that people are that excited to meet me.’

“The downside is that the level of curiosity into your life means that it becomes quite intrusive and the level of criticism is hard to deal with sometimes. It can make you really insecure.”

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Muggles know her as Hermione Granger, the outspoken witch from the Harry Potter movies.

But the petite, polite Emma Watson seems shockingly normal. Her entourage consists of an unobtrusive security guard and her father, who, his daughter proudly says, dressed up as King Triton from “The Little Mermaid” for her fifth birthday.

“I’m a massive animated film fan,” she said. “And now I have my own.”

That is “The Tale of Despereaux,” the animated story of a mouse (Matthew Broderick) who wakens the lonely Princess Pea (Watson) from the isolation of her life.

“I felt really sorry for (her). She says that ‘One day, my prince will come,’ and it was really sweet that her prince came in the form of this goofy mouse,” Watson says.

At home in London, Watson takes the subway, plays tennis and field hockey, and shops with friends.

“I can’t imagine … being trapped and locked in hotel rooms and cars,” says Watson.

In fact, most of Watson’s time is spent shooting the “Potter” films.

The sixth film, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” opens in July.

“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final installment, starts shooting in February and will be released in two parts. “And then I’ll be done,” she says. “It’s so much a part of my life, and it’s going to be so strange when it’s over. It’s strange being 18 and thinking … that probably I will never be part of something this big again in my lifetime.”

Watson’s personal fortune is estimated to be $20 million, so she might never have to work again. She is applying to colleges, mostly in the United States, plans to start next fall and hopes to study English literature.

“The wealth side of it hasn’t hit me yet because I have no need for money in my life. I still live at home. I eat meals with my family every night. I don’t go out a huge amount. I don’t really travel a lot,” she says.

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Will it be Cambridge, film stardom, fashion or chilling with the £10m already in the bank? We talk to Emma Watson about the life ahead

Is Emma Watson a bit of a madam? Given 10 years of international superstardom, £10m pocket money, hot and cold running Chanel, the undying hearts of a million billion children, and all by the age of 18, I imagine anyone would be. Certainly, she’s a bit aloof, a bit otherworldly, a bit most-popular-girl-in-school, when she arrives at the studio, two PRs tottering after. “We’ve met before,” I say, as she holds out her tiny princess’s hand. We only met for two seconds, of course, last year at a charity ball. She goes bright red and brushes an imaginary bit of hair from her face, clearly — and winningly — flustered.

“OhgoshhaveweI’msosorryIjust . . . I don’t remember,” she says. Sigh. Silly me! She must meet hundreds of fans every day.

Watson is tiny and pretty and delightfully brought up. There is nothing remotely suggestive or arch or sexy about her. A doll that has just been taken out of its wrapping, she is a refreshing antithesis to the ripped tights and bleached seaweed hair of the Peaches and Pixies. She wouldn’t dream of nicking clothes or getting publicly drunk or, indeed, doing anything vulgar at all. She remains like, omigod, super-embarrassed about once being linked to the Razorlight front man Johnny Borrell — “Ridiculous: I haven’t spoken to him since” — and charmingly at a loss when I ask her what is the starriest thing she has ever done.

“Um . . . I asked for a bed in my dressing room recently,” she says in her crisp, fluttery voice. Well, what about buying the ski chalet for her 18th? “That’s a family thing,” she says, smiling. “We’re all going up there for Christmas. I love skiing.” And asking all the boys at Stowe to stand up for her when she came into the room? Blank horror and incomprehension. “No. I would never. Can you ever imagine me saying that? More than anything, I just want to be treated like everyone else.”

Which is not difficult, in a way. Small and slim in a pair of jeans and a neat Cacharel V-neck, you probably couldn’t pick Watson out in a crowd. She’s just another schoolgirl, and that’s exactly the point of her. As Hermione Granger, she embodies The Ultimate Girlie Swot — a clean, shrewd, principled young lady, largely unaware of her effect on others. She’s much prettier than your average schoolgirl, of course: in profile, a veritable Sargent, all pinks and whites and Burberry eyebrows. But, she says, she’s not into that vanity rubbish. “Spending a whole day getting ready is ridiculous,” she says. She normally does her hair and make-up herself, having learnt from growing up around make-up ladies — “My surrogate mums. I hate wearing an outfit that looks too put-together and perfect. I choose the things I wear myself because I’m such an OCD control freak”.

Little by little, however, Hermione Granger is undergoing a transition. Next summer, as her sixth Harry Potter is released, she will film the seventh and eighth all in one go, perhaps because, with every passing month, Harry, Ron and Hermione are getting older and looking less like Harry, Ron and Hermione.

“I’m at a strange age,” says Watson, wrinkling her brow and asking for an orange juice, which doesn’t arrive. (She is simply too lovely to ask twice.) “I’m not a woman yet, but I’m not a girl any more. [Film companies] say, ‘Oh, in a couple of years you’ll be perfect for this.’ I’ll be like, yeah, but I want to be studying English then, so it’s going to be quite tough to choose between the two.”

Apart from Harry Potter, she has done the minor girlie fantasy Ballet Shoes and is now promoting her role as Princess Pea in the upcoming mouse cartoon The Tale of Despereaux. But what will she do when she’s too old for ribbons and mittens and magical kittens? “I’m going to have a battle on my hands, because after Harry Potter has finished, I don’t know,” she says. “I definitely want to go to university.”

And with three As this summer from her boarding school, Headington School, Oxford — “I worked incredibly hard” — the world is Watson’s oyster. She says she’s keen on the Ivy League, and she has been linked to Cambridge. I hope she goes: there’s a tenacity and honesty about her that seems wasted on the silly world of blockbusters. Witness her brilliant campaign as an eight-year-old to get the part of Hermione. “I rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed,” she recalls. “When I got the part, people were like, ‘Why you?’ And I just remember seeing a L’Oréal advert, and coming out with an American accent, ‘Because I’m worth it.’ That was my answer then. My answer now is . . . I don’t know, I just really got her.”

So in 20 years’ time, I can quite easily see her being a brilliant lawyer or civil servant — in a good way, of course — and perhaps she sees it too. “I have enough to hold me together without fame,” she says. “I have a really supportive family and a full life away from Harry Potter. It’s unlikely that I’ll be part of anything this big ever again, so I need to deal with that. I’m not going to take a job just because, shit, I’m not doing anything else.” She still loves acting, naturally — she would even, steady chaps, go nude. “Yes,” she says. “For Bernardo Bertolucci. It . . . depends. I’m not getting my kit off any time soon, but it is part of my job.”

Watson divides her time between her father’s house in Hampstead — her parents are divorced — and her mother’s in Oxfordshire. Rather sweetly, she is archiving all her dresses for her young twin stepsisters. “I’m hugely sentimental,” she says. “I collect and collect and collect. I have boxes full of postcards, letters and photographs.” Off-duty, she spends her time doing ordinary school-leaver stuff, such as hanging around Oxford nightclubs with her friends. “The truth is, I’m not very cool,” she shrugs. She’s not really into stepping out of line — she has never been tempted to date Daniel or Rupert, for example. “The public are desperate for it,” she rolls her eyes. “It would literally be like [a royal marriage]. Luckily, luckily . . . It would be such a nightmare.” She believes in love at first sight, but won’t be drawn on the boy she’s dating at the moment. I suspect he is a “civilian” from among her Oxford friends — she has, in the past, dated someone from a local boys’ school. Is she in love? “I don’t know,” she says, before going a bright shade of cerise.

For all her protests that she really isn’t cool, and for all the provincial nights out and boxes of keepsakes, I can’t help noticing she does love a fashion bash — the Chanel couture, the National Gallery, always deliciously attired in cream — and I definitely know someone who has styled her. So what’s really going on? “The parties are fun if you’re with friends,” she says, although meeting her public is often awkward. “I think it’s hard for people to know how to act when they meet me. Some people try incredibly hard to avoid anything to do with Harry Potter, fame or acting or whatever, and I really do appreciate it, but it can be quite awkward too. It’s hard meeting new people, for them to know quite what to do.”

So . . . is she a bit of a madam? And if not, why not? Watson giggles. “It’s really hard to say what’s jealousy and what’s people not liking me. People might just generally think I’m a bitch,” she says. Well, I don’t. I think she’s simply divine.

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ABC Family continues the holiday cheer with its “Harry Potter” weekend Dec. 5 to 7, airing the first four installments of the popular film series as part of the network’s “25 Days of Christmas” programming event, officials said Monday.

In the world television premiere of the special extended edition of Harry Potter andthe Goblet of Fire, viewers will also see deleted scenes not included in the original film version, the network said.

ABC Family will also be airing exclusive first looks at the new film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (opening in theatres July 17 next year) throughout the weekend’s three-day event. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Michael Gambon discuss the upcoming film’s exciting storylines, as well as revealing insider information.

ABC Family’s first looks at the latest Harry Potter feature film also offer viewers a sneak peek of never-before-seen footage of love running rampant through Hogwarts, a look into Tom Riddle’s past and an introduction of Hogwarts new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Horace Slughorn.

The “Harry Potter” weekend schedule is: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on Dec. 5; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanon Dec. 6; and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanandHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fireon Dec. 7.

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