Ladies and gentlemen, the always lovely, Emma Watson.
Emma, come out here.
Welcome back to the show.
You look sensational.
Thank you very much.
And this is the first time I've seen you, and I've been seeing you since you were a kid,
really a kid, you have the short haircut.
I know.
Well, it looks great. You have a perfect head by the way.
You know, I didn't... I've ever heard that before.
No, no, you skull is lovely.
When did you cut your hair?
Um... I cut it about three months ago.
Yeah.
Then you couldn't cut it the whole time you were in the film?
No. No, I couldn't. It would have been a bit strange if Hermione turned up and...
didn't have her signature bushy brown hair.
And how do you feel about suddenly having er... very short hair?
I feel great about it.
I feel really really good about it.
And did it mean something? Was it a symbolic gesture in many ways?
Er... I guess it was. It kind of em...
you know, most women get their haircut when they go through a breakup and
I was going through the Harry Potter breakup and it was time...
time for a new look.
When you say it like that, it makes people sad.
Well, I know. Well it's sad. It is sad.
I'm gonna show this picture.
Oh my goodness.
Here we are. Loot at that. There she is.
This was the first Harry Potter movie there.
Age 11, attending the world premier.
Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone.
And here you are, at age 20, Harry Potter attending the premier...
attending the premier of Harry Potter and...
Look at that. Wow.
So this is... I mean, is this good for an actress?
I mean, this has been over half of your life, for Heaven's sake, the Harry Potter stuff, just about half.
Well, it means I'm working for more than half my life.
And now, will you going to other... you are going to other things, right?
Er... yes. I just shot a movie last week, called xxx.
And that well pretty well. I'm excited to see it. So... yeah.
And did you make a lot of money with these movies?
Oh, I mean... nothing really worth mentioning.
But see, I'm concerned, because you were nine years old,
you didn't negotiate your own deal when you were eleven years old or whatever, was it,
you had an agent looking after it.
No. I know. They totally ripped me off.
You were penniless.
Because these movies do very well.
They do. I mean... they do pretty well. They do.
Yeah. Not sure where you're going with this.
Do you er... and you're in college?
I am in college.
Can you tell people where you go to school?
I mean, you know where you go to school, that's all it counts. Right?
Exactly.
What's it like being up there at the school and stuff?
It's wonderful at the school.
How do the other... how do the co-eds treat you? The other co-eds.
They... The first couple of weeks were a bit, you know, were a bit strange.
But then...
Well you are not only in college but you are away from home too.
Yes, exactly.
I didn't realize quite how big the cultural gap is,
but it's actually much more significant...
For example, how much more significant is it? Because I don't think about it. I don't live in England. So I don't know.
Well, you see, I thought it was just gonna be like, you know,
tomato, tomato, a few very minor language differences but actually,
you know, I find day to day there're things that I'm unable to communicate.
I really needed a... what I would call it a "plaster", the other day.
I was bleeding, quite heavily.
And I was running around saying, "guys, please, I really need a plaster. I need a plaster."
And they just had no idea what I was talking about.
And it almost took five or six minutes to work out what I want is a band aid.
But see, that says something about American kids.
They know you are bleeding. But yet they can't put two and two together.
Oh, I wonder, maybe she's talking about a band aid.
How did you cut yourself?
The most embarassing was that I had no idea, and please excuse me, that
you guys call "a condom" a rubber.
So my version of a rubber is like an eraser.
So I've done that, and very loudly asked for a rubber.
People giving me strange looks.
That was embarrasing. That was embarrasing.
But did they treat you differently because you're an enormously successful actress and a movie star?
Did they... you know, what did they do? Are they sycophantic?
I worry that the kids might be sycophantic.
No, they aren't really.
I think... they all want to be like... they're all too cool for Harry Potter.
What are you studying?
I'm studying history. History is my major.
That's great. And... and then
let's say if you weren't an actress, and you're studying history,
what might you do then, teach?
I don't think I'll teach. I don't think...
I don't think you necessarily have to use your degree...
Well, that's true. You don't have to.
No no no. Let me finish my sentence.
You don't have to use your degree but you don't have to use your degree necessarily in what you do.
Well sure you're exactly right. I mean, just the acquisition of knowledge
is the degree in itself.