Emma Watson

Emma Watson

2:45 pm, May 16th, 2013

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(Michael Thompson for W)

Emma Watson opens up about playing a bad girl in The Bling Ring and not wanting to be sexy in the June/July issue of W.

The star, who portrays a character loosely based on Alexis Neiers named “Nicki” in the film, says playing someone so different from herself was an interesting challenge.

Watson tells the mag, “The iconic detail of Nicki is her tramp stamp. It’s a lotus flower, a Buddhist-like symbol just above her butt crack. Really classy!”

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She shares, “At one point I told the costume designer, ‘You can see my bra strap in this top; shouldn’t we pin it?’ And she said, ‘No, sweetie—Nicki is all about her bra strap showing.’ I was like, Right, okay, different mind-set.”

“Some of her lines are so crazy and absurd—making sure she wasn’t a parody was a challenge,” adds the actress.

Watson goes on to talk about what she was like as a kid and dealing with fame as a young person.

She reveals she was a “serious child,” sharing, “I remember being 13 and girls in my class saying, ‘So-and-so is going to kiss so-and-so on the school fields.’ I said, ‘That’s stupid. They’re too young for it to matter—he doesn’t love her, and that’s just a waste of time.’”

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Asked if she had her first kiss on camera, Watson responds, “Thankfully, no,” offering, “You need to have normal experiences of your own. I’ve never wanted to grow up too fast: I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me.”

Watson also opens up about her celebrity crush — saying she’s loved Kevin Costner “since I was 12.”

She tells the mag, “I met him in an elevator the other day, and I couldn’t even speak. He said hello, because he is lovely like that, and I couldn’t say anything back.”

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Emma Watson

3:03 pm, April 2nd, 2013

(British GQ)

Emma Watson is saying goodbye to well-behaved Harry Potter heroine Hermione.

The actress appears on the cover of the May issue of British GQ as her tattooed, pole-dancing, law-breaking character from The Bling Ring, the upcoming movie based on the real-life group of privileged teens who burglarized celebrity homes.

“When I read the script and I realized that essentially it was a meditation on fame and what it’s become to our society, I had to do it,” Watson tells the magazine.

She explains that her character is “everything that I felt strongly against — she’s superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She’s all of these things and I realized that I hated her. How do you play someone you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be.”

Watson knew that she didn’t want to do a period drama, which also made the wild role attractive.

“Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset because I was worried I’d never get out again,” says the actress. “I knew it would be a really comfortable thing to do, but I felt… I had to dive into something really different. This has been a really big departure for me; it’s a really big character.”

As our friends at ETOnline point out, Watson’s GQ cover outfit is reminiscent of Julia Roberts’ Pretty Woman prostitute – check out the comparison here!

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