Some celebrities thrive in the spotlight and take great pleasure in being showered with attention. And while many of us dream about fame and fortune, Emma Watson has not been a fan of the attention. And she feels bad that she isn’t a fan of the attention. “I’ve sat in therapy and felt really guilty about it,” she told British Vogue. “I’m like why me, somebody else would have enjoyed and wanted this aspect of it more than I did. And I’ve struggled a lot with the guilt around that. I’m like, I should be enjoying this a lot more, I should be more excited and I’m actually really struggling.”
Watson played Hermione Granger in all eight “Harry Potter” films, but as she shared in HBO Max’s “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,” she nearly bowed out after filming “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Per People, she told co-star Rupert Grint, “I don’t know if you ever felt like it got to a tipping point where you were like, ‘This is kind of forever now.'”
The “Harry Potter” reunion was not the first time she’d touched on her desire to exit the series once and for all. “I was finding this fame thing was getting to a point of no return,” Watson told Vanity Fair in 2017. “I sensed if this was something I was ever going to step away from it was now or never.”
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