After the release of the final installment in the saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Emma Watson was 21 years old and immediately plunged into independent cinema with three projects in a row: My Week with Marilyn, Charlie’s Le Monde. And especially Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring.
In the latter, he plays a role he describes as his opposite. Inspired by Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton, Watson plays a teenager and his “gang” who rob the homes of celebrities when they are away from home. He then toured with Darren Aronofsky (Noah), Alejandro Amenabar (Regression) and Florian Gallenberger (Cologne), and 2017 experienced both the biggest success of his solo career and the worst.
Top and flop in the same year
Emma Watson in 2023
On March 22, 2017, Beauty and the Beast was released, a remake with the cast of the Disney cartoon that was released in France in 1992. Emma Watson played the role of Belle and the film grossed $1.26 billion, which was barely less than the last installment of Harry. The Potter Saga. Except that this time the actor stands alone on the bill.
His next film released on July 12, 2017… and it was just the opposite. The circuit only grossed 40 million worldwide. Despite being written and directed by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now), this sci-fi film opposite Tom Hanks went completely unnoticed.
The idea of The Circle was to show the negativity of social networks and the danger to everyone’s life, but it ended up being a rather average techno-thriller, with an average AlloCiné press and an audience rating of 2.6. from 5 And even if she left the screens for personal reasons completely unrelated to the film’s failure, The Circle remains a disappointment in her acting career.
This failure coincided with Emma Watson’s desire to change her life. After The Circle, she appeared again on the screens in Greta Gerwig’s “Dr. March’s Daughters” and preferred to devote herself to projects in which she had a say: “I love what I do. I want to find a way to do it that doesn’t allow me to split into multiple people, multiple faces. And I don’t want to be relegated to robot mode.”
Source: Allocine
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