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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Harry Potter Star Emma Watson Reveals Why She Doesn’t Regret Leaving Acting Behind · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Emma Watson remains a household name, largely thanks to her
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  Speaker 2: work in the Harry Potter franchise and several high profile
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  Speaker 2: projects that followed well into adulthood. But since twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 2: with a role in Little Women, Emma has turned down
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  Speaker 2: every acting gig offer.
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  Speaker 1: To her and it sounds like I may stay that way.
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  Speaker 2: And while most actors who step away from acting to
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  Speaker 2: do so because of issues with fame, for Emma, it
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  Speaker 2: was the toll of film's publicity tour took on her.
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  Speaker 2: She tells, Hollywood authentic. In some ways, I really won
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  Speaker 2: the lottery with acting and what happened to me having
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  Speaker 2: such a successful career is so unusual. But a bigger
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  Speaker 2: component than the actual job itself is the promotion and
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  Speaker 2: selling of that piece of art.
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  Speaker 1: The balance of that is off.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest and straightforward and say I do not
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  Speaker 2: miss selling things. I found it to be quite soul destroying.
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  Speaker 2: But I do very much mis using my skill set
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  Speaker 2: in the art. But I got to do so little
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  Speaker 2: of the part I actually enjoyed. That's Emma Watson, who
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  Speaker 2: hads she's the happiest. She's ever been.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's direct from Hollywood.