Emma Watson has not appeared on the big screen since Greta Gerwig’s remake of Little Women in 2019, but while she misses acting, she does not miss the “soul-destroying” process of promoting and selling the films she has starred in.
“In some ways I really won the lottery [with acting], and what happened to me is so unusual,” Watson told Hollywood Authentic in a recent interview.
“But a bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art. The balance of that can get quite thrown off. I think I’ll be honest and straightforward, and say: I do not miss selling things. I found that to be quite soul-destroying,” she said.
“But I do very much miss using my skill set, and I very much miss the art. I just found I got to do so litt