Emma Watson chatted about her HeForShe campaign, growing up as Hermione Granger in the
Harry Potter series and more in the winter issue of
Net-a-Porter magazine. Highlights from the interview, as well as her new photo shoot, can be seen here.
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Emma Watson: "[I've] spent more than half of my life pretending to be someone else. While my contemporaries were dying their hair and figuring out who they were, I was figuring out who Hermione was and how best to portray her."
"Now at 25 for the first time in my life I feel like I have a sense of self that I’m comfortable with. I actually do have things that I want to say and I want to be my most authentic self."
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Emma Watson: "I don’t want there to be a big separation between the public and the private person. It’s definitely the harder road to tread, but without a doubt, ultimately the most rewarding."
"It sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, but I’m very interested in truth, in finding ways to be messy and unsure and flawed and incredible and great and my fullest self, all wrapped into one. When you watch the work of someone like actress Emma Thompson, you feel like you’re seeing something true, and I aspire to that."
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Emma Watson: “I was encouraged not to use the word ‘feminism’ because people felt that it was alienating and separating and the whole idea of the speech was to include as many people as possible."
"But I thought long and hard and ultimately felt that it was just the right thing to do. If women are terrified to use the word, how on earth are men supposed to start using it?"
More photo shoot scans, via an Emma fansite, can be seen below.
Emma Watson in new Net-a-Porter magazine cover feature, talks HeForShe, Harry Potter 
