Harry Potter Magic: Emma Watson is the richest in the realm
New York 2009 was a year of small and big achievements for Emma Watson. In the last twelve months, the British protagonist of the Harry Potter series has turned 19, has enrolled at university, has kissed her two partners (Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint) on the set of the last episode of Harry Potter, has decided to living with a boyfriend for the first time and became the highest paid actress in Hollywood. According to the monthly magazine Vanity Fair, the very young English actress, who is also a model for the Burberry clothing house, would have grossed a whopping 30 million dollars last year, beating the great American stars who are convinced they are the most desired and paid of the world.
But the millions earned by the very young Watson - who we have all seen grow since, at the age of nine, she first appeared as Hermione Granger, the shy and bespectacled friend of Harry Potter - have slammed her to the top of the list. of Hollywood stars.
Born in Paris and the daughter of a couple of English lawyers who divorced when she was still a child, Emma Watson has always dreamed of being an actress and had started working in the theater in England as a child. "If I had been told, when I was nine, that Harry Potter would become so famous, I might have run away for fear of not making it," she admitted one day. And she probably would never have expected the results of this new ranking, which slammed her to the 14th place among the talents (not only stars, but also directors of the caliber of Steven Spielberg and producers) of the great machine of American cinema. Under hers, in fact, appears the name of Cameron Diaz - until a few months ago considered the highest paid actress in Hollywood but today in 19th place - followed then, in that order, by the protagonist of Sex and the city, Sarah Jessica Parker (in 24th place), by Katherine Heigl (the protagonist of Grey's anatomy today in 27th place), Reese Witherspoon (the protagonist of Four Christmases and the voice of the cartoon Monsters versus aliens), and Jennifer Aniston, in a cruel head and tests with his great rival Angelina Jolie, who occupies a distant 32nd place. The latter, constantly slammed on the front pages of the magazines for her divorce from Brad Pitt, earned - between June 2008 and last year - 27 million dollars, being beaten by Watson, a little girl of soap and water and media darling. Who seems not to want to take any false steps. Even her sweethearts so far have in fact been "decent" guys: thanks to her billions, Watson has just bought herself a magnificent house in the heart of London, where she lives with 26-year-old financier Jay Barrimore. Could this young couple make the audience forget Angelina and Brad's disastrous farewell?
Has Jolie been ruined by her image as a difficult woman? Or perhaps, in the Hollywood firmament where stars are born and fade in a few years, the charm of an innocent college girl (Watson enrolled at Brown, in the village of Providence, Rhode Island), of a nineteen year old passionate about fashion and often surrounded by even younger friends, she is a great magnet for an audience tired of betrayals, divorces, drugged and drunk stars, whipping their talents away among discos and passing lovers.
It is no coincidence that even in the world parallel to that of cinema, that of music, another clean face is thrilling young and old: it is that of Taylor Swift, a few months older, if we can say it, than Watson, one of the rare stars of pop and country world to still be innocent, clean, soap and water.
If Americans are looking for clean faces on the big screen and in music, it is the horror scripts that sell: the Vanity Fair statistic puts a new king, director Michael Bay, who has earned $ 125 million at the top of the box. thanks to his horror films from the Transformers series and which threw Steven Spielberg from the throne of scrooge at the California Cinecittà.
