Arriving at the first meeting of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council in Paris, France (19.02.2019)
“I used to get really frustrated by the child-star stigma that I would get when I spoke to journalists, and I think it’s because I lived this very sheltered life, where I’d have a chauffeur come and pick me up to take me to the studios. I’d only see this very specific group of people who I was doing these films with. I’d get back in my car and go home and do the same thing the next day. It was really only once Harry Potter ended and I went to university that it hit me how unusual a position I was in, how different my life could have been.”
A lot of children of this generation have their entire lives made public before they have a say about what they would want. I think it should always be a choice. I love social media, and I love what it can do and how it brings people together, but used in the wrong way, it’s incredibly dangerous. And, increasingly, our attention is our most important resource. Before the press tour, I deleted my e-mail app from my phone and really tried to create serious boundaries from it, because it is addictive. We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us.
“When I see the images again from the first ‘Harry Potter‘ I immediately think how bad my hair was.”
First meeting of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council in Paris, France (19.02.2019)
Emma Watson - Arrives at the first meeting of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council in Paris, France (2/19/09)