Emma Watson went into further detail on her decision to take time off from Brown University and college in general in a new interview with the LA Times. Emma stated that after promoting
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I in November 2010, she exhausted herself right before final exams during her fall semester. More on that, and why she chose to take the spring term off in order to focus on promoting the finale of the
Harry Potter series in
Deathly Hallows: Part II, as part of a feature in celebrities enrolling in university, can be read below.
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"I've had to say no to stuff that people have been gobsmacked about. I've had big directors say to me, 'What do you mean, you can't do this movie? We don't understand,'" the actress, now 21, said.
"I always hear, 'What do you mean she can't do this magazine cover?' or 'What do you mean she can't have this meeting for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?' And my agent will say, 'She's at school, sorry.'
"Yes, it's hard for me to turn down amazing opportunities. But I've been working solidly since I've been 9 years old. So for me, to have this space to learn and figure myself out a bit is obviously worth it."
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[Watson] took a semester off from Brown to promote the last "Harry Potter" film, which hits screens in July, and will return to her studies in the fall — though maybe at a different campus, on an exchange program through Brown.
"On the last movie, I flew around on this crazy press tour, and then came back and tried to do my finals," she recalled. "I wasn't sleeping. And I realized, 'Oh, my God, I can't do this again.' I wasn't going to be able to get the best out of being at Brown and do justice to saying goodbye to 'Harry Potter' properly."