Paula Abdul opted out of being a Housewife. ET’s Brice Sander spoke with the 60-year-old star at the fifth annual Vanderpump Dog Foundation gala in Beverly Hills, and she revealed why she turned down the chance to appear in the hit Bravo franchise.
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Financial Times. “I think I felt a bit caged.”“The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over,” she explained.
“To stand in front of a film and have every journalist be able to say, ‘How does this align with your viewpoint?’ It was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn’t get to be involved in the process.”She was 11 years old when she made her first film appearance as Granger in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 2001.Watson said she was held accountable “in a way that I began to find really frustrating because I didn’t have a voice, I didn’t have a say.”“And I started to realize that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn’t make me hate myself, ‘Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better,’” she shared.Since stepping away from acting, Watson found a new passion for writing and directing, specifically for the luxury fashion house Prada.Calling the project a “very big” moment for her, Watson said she was often told to direct and produce, when back in her “Harry Potter” days.“I was worried it was just technical, not creative, and I couldn’t bring what I think is probably my skill set,” she told the outlet.Watson said it was her brother, Alex, that asked her to do a photoshoot which led her to try out filmmaking.“I actually know quite a lot about that. Being a director seemed unattainable.
I don’t think I had any confidence in that,” she shared. “I know it seems weird.
Paula Abdul opted out of being a Housewife. ET’s Brice Sander spoke with the 60-year-old star at the fifth annual Vanderpump Dog Foundation gala in Beverly Hills, and she revealed why she turned down the chance to appear in the hit Bravo franchise.
Paula Abdul opted out of being a Housewife. ET's Brice Sander spoke with the 60-year-old star at the fifth annual Vanderpump Dog Foundation gala in Beverly Hills, and she revealed why she turned down the chance to appear in the hit Bravo franchise.«I've been humbled,» Abdul said of how she felt about being asked to join.
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Harry Potter actor hasn’t starred in a film since Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, which finished shooting at the end of 2018.Speaking about taking a break from acting in a recent interview with Financial Times, Watson said: “I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest. I think I felt a bit caged.“The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over.
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