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The Harry Potter franchise may have given Emma Watson some of the biggest moments of her career, but as the actress revealed in a recent interview on September 24, 2025, it also made it difficult for her to focus on friendships.
After a long hiatus from acting, Watson recently returned to the spotlight with an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival. After that, she has opened up about her hiatus, her personal life and everything she is up to, and in a recent podcast with Jay Shetty, she's removing the curtain on the difficulties she faced in friendships after Harry Potter.
Talking to Shetty about how working on that set changed her expectations in industry friendships, Emma Watson said:
“I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that the people I worked with were going to be my family and that we were going to be lifelong friends. I came to work looking for friendship and that was a very painful experience for me outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood, like bone-breakingly painful because most people don't come to those environments looking for friendships."
She then added how the environments she found herself working in were highly competitive and she wasn't thick skinned enough to not be affected by it, as she continued:
“They're looking for: ‘This is my chance. This is my role. This is what I want out of it, I'm focused. This is my job. This is my career.' And I was not of that mindset."
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After her highly successful stint as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, Emma Watson moved on to a diverse set of films and genres, doing everything from comedies to coming-of-age teen stories, musicals, period dramas, and Disney films.
Some of her most popular roles happened post-Potter as she continued to grow beyond her wizard persona. In 2012 she starred as Sam in Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, followed by 2013's The Bling Ring, 2014's Noah and 2017's Beauty and the Beast, where she played Belle for the Disney film's first live-action adaptation of the story. After that she starred as Margaret March in Greta Gerwig's Little Women, alongside a star studded cast of Soairse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern and Timothee Chalamet, which ended up being her last film before her hiatus.
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Activism is another big pillar for Emma Watson. In 2014 she was appointed a goodwill ambassador for UN women and launched the HeForShe campaign, urging men and boys to engage in achieving gender equality. She has been vocal about feminism, sustainability, ethical fashion, and education for girls.
As of now, she's letting fans catch up with everything that has been going on in her life since she took her break. Apart from that, she has also hinted at new projects she has been working on, although she has not shared any details so far.
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