Emma Watson explains why she stepped back from acting: “I felt a bit caged”

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Harry Potter actor hasn’t starred in a film since Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, which finished shooting at the end of 2018.Speaking about taking a break from acting in a recent interview with Financial Times, Watson said: “I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest.

I think I felt a bit caged.“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.

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.”She added: “I was held accountable in a way that I began to find really frustrating, because I didn’t have a voice.

I didn’t have a say. 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.’”Since 2011’s Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Watson has starred in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, The Bling Ring, This Is The End, Noah, Little Women and Disney‘s live-action remake of Beauty And The Beast.The actor, who wrote and directed an advertising campaign for Prada last year, hasn’t ruled out making a return to the big screen.“Yes, absolutely,” Watson said. “But I’m happy to sit and wait for the next right thing.