September 29, 2011

Emma Watson and co on set of The Perks of Being a Wallflower with Josh Horowitz



The post-"Harry Potter" education of Emma Watson began, in a way, at Brown University. Searching for her first film after completing the boy-wizard franchise, the Ivy League actress found some unlikely career advisors in the form of her fellow college students, who told her that she simply had to sign up for "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," an adaptation of Stephen Chbosky's seminal novel.

"Honestly, I had never read the book before, but a lot of my friends at Brown were hugely into it, and when I told them I had this script, they were crazy excited," Watson told MTV News.

And just that like, through the pop-culture schooling of her peers, she'd found a flick to carry her away from Hogwarts and toward a Hollywood second act. It's fitting, then, that with "Perks" on her résumé, we've selected Watson as a member of MTV News' New Class — actors and actresses about to graduate toward greatness. The 21-year-old finds herself in good company on the movie, whose cast contains so many soon-to-break-big talents that we selected a bunch of her costars as her New Class cohorts.

We've dubbed Watson "Most Likely to Win an Oscar." Nina Dobrev ("The Vampire Diaries") is our Next Style Icon. Logan Lerman ("Percy Jackson & the Olympians" and the upcoming "Three Musketeers") is Most Likely to Make You Swoon, and Ezra Miller (Sundance eye-opener "Another Happy Day" and Cannes selectee "We Need to Talk About Kevin") is Most Likely to Win an Independent Spirit Award. Together they're bringing a beloved teen novel to the screen. And when we visited the film's Pittsburgh set earlier this year, all four of them were well aware of the expectations surrounding the project and professed themselves lucky to be involved.

"I feel incredible about it. I feel like I've been waiting for 'Perks,' " Watson said. "I was waiting for this story, for this script, for this moment, for these people to do it with me. I'm so glad I didn't do anything that I didn't care about."

Watson plays Sam, a high school senior who, along with Miller's Patrick, introduces Lerman's freshman Charlie to a world of sex, drugs and awkward adolescence. "I definitely tapped into some awkward childhood memories for this movie," Lerman explained. "It's been a year and a half since I first signed on to the project, so to be out here making it is a pretty big deal for me. It's cool to be working with this great cast of young actors."

Dobrev, on a break from "Vampire Diaries," echoed those sentiments. "Every hiatus, my goal is to try something different, and this is a small part in a great, fun indie that has a great script," she said of playing Charlie's sister. "It's been fun to meet such great new people. Everyone really gets along and is really friendly and fun."

Their subject matter, it should be said, is not all fun or funny. While when we showed up on set the stars were filming a raucous school-dance sequence set to "Come on Eileen," "Perks" takes on potentially controversial material about suicide, drug use and sexuality. These may be divisive topics to some, but ask any teen and he or she will say it's all part of their world.

"I don't think there will be one teenager who will watch this and not have one story or one moment that they don't deeply feel they can relate to," Watson said.
Source: MTV


The video will be online as soon as I'll find a way to see it.

9 comments:

Jackie said...

The video is AWESOME. You see lots of snippets of the movie/filming, with a major focus on Emma and Ezra doing some really elaborate dancing.

Anonymous said...

Woaw! This is a very different side of Emma's acting. It seems great! can't wait to see the movie!

Anonymous said...

This video is awesome.

Emma Watson+Dancing With The Stars=GREATNESS! She should do dancing with the Stars if they ever ask her. She's got some moves!

The movie looks awesome, but it does look like she's not wearing a wig, so in the movie, Sam has short hair. I'm a little worried, because a lot of people are complaining that having Sam have short hair is bad, but, hopefully Emma will do so good people will forget about the short hair.

Thaïs said...

The girl can dance ! :D

Thaïs said...

Je prie juste (et espère du fond du coeur) que ce sera pas juste un teenage movie sans fond =/
Même les meilleures histoires parfois sont mal adaptées.

Eden said...

Le réalisateur étant aussi l'écrivain je doute qu'il foire sa propre oeuvre.

Anonymous said...

Whats with the weird dancing?

Anonymous said...

So, umm, you can see her nipple during the first interview...

Eden said...

It's not her nipple, it's too high to be it. It's just something she has under her top to prevent from nip slip I think.