Emma Watson is overrated
I know that an article that begins with that title is going to give me a large number of haters. But I do not care. Emma Watson is as overrated as Chiquito de la Calzada, paella or jazz. Yes, she added fuel to the fire.
To speak of Emma Watson is to refer to an icon from the childhood of all current twentysomethings. Hermione Granger, Harry Potter's adventure partner, was Watson's alter ego for ten years. With her, he began his film career in 2001 and with her it was about to end in 2011. In this last five years, and once the transformation from girl to woman was completed, the films in which he has participated have been few and of questioned quality .
Saving the wonderful The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Colonia, among her other projects are listed failures such as The Bling Ring, Noah or Regression. If Watson sat down with her agent and did soul searching, she might see that indie or lesser-named productions fare better than others with higher expectations. Because those three aforementioned hits are signed by Sofia Coppola, Darren Aranofsky and Alejandro Amenábar and their budgets were not small. Or, perhaps, her aim leaves a lot to be desired. Recently, it was revealed that the first choice for the hit La La Land, instead of Emma Stone, was Emma Watson, but she preferred the Beauty and the Beast project. Facepalm.
But who knows, Emma Watson may not care about all this. She continues to be an icon for many, many people. Erected as a great defender of feminism and appointed UN ambassador, she continues to be the order of the day on Twitter, either in the form of a Harrypotterian GIF or through praise of her beauty. She may not have such an urge to revive her film career.
Put to compare, because what would life be without comparisons ?, and taking an element as unscientific as her first name, Emma Stone and Emma Roberts are light years away from Emma Watson. I am not going to enter the physical plane because that is very subjective, although for me they are also a step above, but their careers have undergone an opposite evolution.
Emma Stone, who is only two years older than Watson, has just won the Golden Globe and already has two Oscar nominations (Birdman and La La Land); She has participated in numerous successful projects, be they blockbusters or cult films; She is seen on talk shows and red carpets with total naturalness, competing with Jennifer Lawrence for the position of the simplest and most folksy actress in Hollywood, and she has much better success choosing projects.
Emma Roberts, for her part, had the focus on her since she said at home that she wanted to be an actress. Daughter of Eric Roberts and niece of Julia, the Pretty Woman par excellence, Emma has been carving out her journey step by step. Small roles in little-known films led to others in more visible projections (We are the Millers) and opened the door to an alternative path that, every day, more actors take: series. American Horror Story and Scream Queens have put Emma Roberts in the front line of fire. And she, delighted. In 2016 she released Nerve, a film with Dave Franco, and is already working on two new titles. At 25 years old, she has left America's girlfriend's niece for a while.
It wouldn't hurt for Emma Watson to go the way of her namesake. In spring, she will have a new opportunity with the adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. The starring role in the Disney classic suits him like a glove. Hopefully everything else is up to par. If not, The Circle will also be released next year, where she will share the screen with Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt or Bill Paxton.
2017 may be the year this article is refuted or, on the contrary, it may be more than a wake-up call for Emma Watson to rethink her future. Be the eternal Hermione or aspire to something more.
