Emma Watson asked to quit acting

Emma Watson has revealed that a professor advised her to quit acting. The actress said that she was affected by questions in the media about whether she could sustain a career after the Harry Potter franchise.

“For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, ‘Will they ever be able to play anything else?’,” Watson said. “It gave me a sense of paralysis. And then a professor told me that they didn’t think I should act, either. So I was really grappling with it. People put me in a box so much that it started pissing me off. I wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel,” she said. Watson said that she was “unsure” about continuing acting until she read the script of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. “Having such a great experience on that movie kind of sealed the deal.”