Throwback - When Emma Watson revealed the reason for her acting break: "The thing I found really hard..."

Emma Watson, the prolific actress, has been avoiding being in front of the screen since she wrapped Greta Gerwig’s 2019 hit, ‘Little Women.’ While she still stands as a fan-favourite persona, the 35-year-old once expressed her reasons for stepping away from acting.

Emma Watson's hiatus from Hollywood...

In a 2023 interview with the Financial Times, Emma expressed that she wasn’t very happy with the profession. Not only did she feel caged, but Watson also felt discontent with how little she had control over something she had to sell to the audience. “The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over,” she said, before adding, “To stand in front of a film and have every journalist be able to say, ‘How does this align with your viewpoint?’ It was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn’t get to be involved in the process.”Furthermore, Emma opened up about being accountable, which caused frustration as she didn’t have a voice or didn’t have say. She continued about wanting to not hate herself, “And I started to realise that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn’t make me hate myself, ‘Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better.’”

Will Emma Watson ever return?

While the wall between acting and Emma Watson still stands, it begs the question of her return on screen. The answer would be yes; however, the ‘Harry Potter’ actress is happy to wait until the next project aligns with her values. The British actress said, “I love what I do. It’s finding a way to do it where I don’t have to fracture myself into different faces and people. And I just don’t want to switch into robot mode any more.

Does that make sense?”