British actress Emma Watson has said that she was quizzed over her sexuality after cutting her hair short, last year.

The Harry Potter star, who recently appeared in My Week With Marilyn, made the revelation in an interview with The Independent newspaper.

Speaking of her headline-grabbing haircut (pictured), Watson said: “I had journalists asking me if this meant I was coming out, if I was a lesbian now.

“That haircut did make me realise how subjective everyone’s opinion is. Some people were crazy for it and some people just thought I’d lost my sh-t. All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.”

The 21 year-old, who is also the face of Lancome’s new lipstick, re-iterated this point in an interview with French Elle.

“I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion,” she says.

“That you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.”

A year of studying abroad is probably a bit less daunting when your destination happens to be your home country.

That’s the situation for Emma Watson, the British actress who’s taking time away from Brown University to study at Oxford – in the same part of England where she grew up.

“It’s really nice … just to have that steady routine and back being home, being around people I love and doing what I love,” Watson, 21, said Sunday at the London premiere of My Week with Marilyn.

Although she’s got her nose in the books, Watson does have some movies in the works, she revealed.

“I’m studying and really excited about my next projects,” she said. “I can’t really talk about them right now, but I am going to try and fit in some film projects next year in between school.”

In My Week with Marilyn, which stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Watson plays Monroe’s wardrobe assistant, Lucy. After the Harry Potter films, she was thrilled to take a role that wasn’t quite as high profile.

“I loved it,” she said. “It was less pressure, but at the same time it was an interesting role, although it was a small role. I loved the script and loved the story, and I’m very interested in Marilyn, so I really wanted to do it.”

“I’m very proud of it,” she added, “and I’m really pleased with my part in it.”

Of Williams, she says, “I thought she was wonderful. Such a thing to take on, to play someone who is so iconic and so loved, and I think she just pulled it off so well. I was so impressed.”

Photocall for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ at the St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel

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Emma Watson strikes a pose at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards held at Universal Studios’ Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday (June 5) in Universal City, Calif.

The 21-year-old British actress wore an ivory jewel encrusted Marchesa short white dress with metallic silver Brian Atwood heels and Kum Kum earrings.

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• 2011 MTV Movie Awards – June 5th x143 + 23 x 166

Emma Watson strikes a pose at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards held at Universal Studios’ Gibson Amphitheatre on Sunday (June 5) in Universal City, Calif.

The 21-year-old British actress wore an ivory jewel encrusted Marchesa short white dress with metallic silver Brian Atwood heels and Kum Kum earrings. Below is the special clip that she brought.

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• 2011 MTV Movie Awards – June 5th x143

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Emma Watson and the class of 2013 attend freshman orientation at Brown University on Friday (September 4) in Providence, Rhode Island.

The day after, the 19-year-old British actress was seen grabbing Starbucks with friends and family. Her boyfriend Jay Barrymore has also been spotted on campus.

Emma arrived on campus via helicopter on Wednesday, September 2. Not a typical way to start off the school year! In addition to her literature course load, Emma is taking a geology class this semester.

“I want to be normal,” the Harry Potter starlet has said. “I really want anonymity. I want to do [the college experience] properly, like everyone else. As long as I don’t walk in and see, like, Harry Potter posters everywhere, I’ll be fine.”

source: Just Jared