Emma Watson is coming clean about her least favorite part of being an actor.
The “Harry Potter” star last appeared on screen in Greta Gerwig’s 2019 adaptation of “Little Women,” and while she said she misses the creative side, she told Hollywood Authentic that she found the task of promoting a film afterward “soul-destroying.”
She compared landing her role as the young witch Hermione Granger at age 10 to winning the lottery, but explained how a “bigger component” of the job was “selling” the projects, which she felt clashed with the idea that films are a “piece of art.”
“The balance of that can get quite thrown off,” Watson went on. “I think I’ll be honest and straightforward and say: I do not miss selling things. I found that to be quite soul-destroying.”
The “Beauty and the Beast” star also called the pressure to maintain a polished public persona exhausting.
