Harry Porter star Emma Watson shares why she steps away from acting

Emma Watson stated in a recent interview that she has chosen not to appear in any recent Hollywood films.

When the first movie in the Harry Potter     series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,  was released in 2001, Watson, then 10-years-old, shot to popularity as Hermione Granger. She acted in numerous films during the 2000s and 2010s, including The Perks of Being a Wallflower,   Beauty and the Beast, and This is the End,  in addition to appearing in all eight   Harry Potter films.

Despite her fame, Watson decided to take a break from acting in 2019 after appearing in Little Women. The activist and actress recently opened up about her choice to leave the spotlight in a new interview, which was conducted around four years after she had her last playing role.

"I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest," she told London-based news outlet Financial Times. "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."

The Beauty and the Beast star further 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 realize 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'."