Emma Watson zou zijn gevraagd om een rol te spelen in de remake van de Little Women-boekverfilming. De actrice vervangt Emma Stone, die het project moest laten schieten wegens een te volle agenda.
Bronnen melden aan Variety dat het nog niet bekend is welke rol de 28-jarige Watson precies gaat spelen.Het zal in elk geval een van de vier zussen zijn die de hoofdrollen vormen in het verhaal dat zich afspeelt tijdens de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog in de negentiende eeuw. Het is de bedoeling dat de productie van de film in september van start gaat.
Eerder werden de namen van acteurs Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet en Florence Pugh al bevestigd. Onderhandelingen met Stone werden niet afgerond, omdat zij te druk is met de promotietour van haar aankomende film The Favourite.
Het zou niet de eerste keer zijn dat beide actrices worden gecast voor dezelfde rol. Eerder was Stone de vervangende keuze van Watson in La La Land, toen de Harry Potter-actrice haar klus niet kon combineren met de opnames van Beauty and the Beast. Stone werd voor haar acteerprestaties in de musicalfilm beloond met een Oscar voor beste actrice.
Little Women werd drie keer eerder verfilmd
Greta Gerwig zal Little Women regisseren. Zij was bij de afgelopen editie van de Oscar genomineerd voor de beste regie met de film Lady Bird, waarin ook Ronan en Chamalet te zien waren.De remake van Little Women werd al in 2016 aangekondigd. Na het succes van Lady Bird zijn Gerwig en productiemaatschappij Sony overeengekomen dat Gerwig Little Women zal regisseren.
Het boek van Louisa May Alcott uit 1869 werd in 1918 voor het eerst verfilmd. In 1933 kwam een nieuwe verfilming uit, met Katherine Hepburn in een van de hoofdrollen. Susan Sarandon en Winona Ryder speelden de hoofdrollen in de versie die in 1994 uitkwam.
Er zijn nieuwe foto’s verschenen van de ‘Beauty and The Beast’ promotieshoot, deze werden o.a. gebruikt voor de posters van de film.
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http//: Beauty and the Beast (2017) > Promotieshoots
Emma heeft recent schrijfster Rupi Kaur geinterviewd voor haar boekenclub ‘Our Shared Shelf’, de dichtenbundel Honey and Milk is het boek voor juli en augustus. Het is nog niet bekend wanneer het interview verschijnt.
Emma bezocht afgelopen donderdag de Thorpe Hall Primary School in Walthamstow voor de lancering van Hockey Futures. Een initiatief van England Hockey om de jeugd te enthousiast te maken voor de sport.
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http//: 19 juli: Bezoekt Thorpe Hall Primary School in Walthamstow Voor de lancering van Hockey Futures
I recently visited Thorpe Hall Primary School in Walthamstow to launch Hockey Futures, a charity aiming to get more young people into hockey. Hockey was a big part of my life growing up and I am excited that the Hockey Women’s World Cup is going to be hosted in London, starting on TODAY! Good luck, England Hockey – I’ll be cheering you on!
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Emma bezocht vorige week twee wedstrijden van het Wimbledon Tennis Championships in Londen, de finale bekeek ze samen met ‘Beauty and The Beast’ collega Luke Evans. Enkele nieuwe foto’s zijn toegevoegd!
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http//: 13 juli: Wimbledon Tennis Championships – Dag 12
http//: 15 juli: Wimbledon Tennis Championships – Dag 14
Emma mocht voor Entertainment Weekly schrijfster Margret Atwood, schrijfster van ‘The Handmaidens Tale’ interviewen. Het boek was daarnaast gekozen als boek voor mei en juni van haar boekenclub Our Shared Shelf.
Many celebrities have book clubs, but none share the clout of Emma Watson’s “Our Shared Shelf,” which has picked up nearly 200,000 members since it launched on Goodreads in 2016. As Watson wrote when she made The Handmaid’s Tale her May/June selection, “It is a book that has never stopped fascinating readers because it articulates so vividly what it feels like for a woman to lose power over her own body.” Thanks to the recent Hulu series, Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel has again soared to the top of the best-seller lists. Watson called up Atwood to discuss.
You were living in West Berlin when you wrote The Handmaid’s Tale in 1984; it was before the wall came down. Was being in a divided city a big influence on the novel or had you been thinking about it before you arrived in Berlin? I’d love to know how the novel came about.
I had been thinking about it before I’d arrived, and at that time — when I was in West Berlin—I also visited Czechoslovakia and East Germany and Poland. They weren’t revelations, because being as old as I am I knew about life behind the Iron Curtain, but it was very interesting to be right inside, to sense the atmosphere. East Germany was the most repressed, Czechoslovakia the second, and Poland was relatively wide open, which explains why Poland was where the Cold War wall first cracked. So it was very interesting to be there, but it wasn’t the primary inspiration.What was the inspiration, if you don’t mind me asking?
There were three inspirations. First, what right wing people were already saying in 1980. They were saying the kinds of things they’re now doing, but at that time they didn’t have the power to do them. I believe that people who say those kinds of things will do those things if and when they get power: They’re not just funning around. So that was one of the inspirations. If you’re going to make women go back into the home, how are you going to do that? If America were to become a totalitarian state, what would that state look like? What would its aims be? What sort of excuse would it use for its atrocities? Because they all have an excuse of some kind. It would not be Communism in the United States; it would have undoubtedly been some sort of religious ideology—which it now is. By the way, that’s not an “anti religion” statement. Recently, someone said, “Religion doesn’t radicalize people, people radicalize religion.” So you can use any religion as an excuse for being repressive, and you can use any religion as an excuse for resisting repression; it works both ways, as it does in the book. So that was one set of inspirations.
Emma staat op #37 van Instyle’s lijst van ‘The Badass 50’, waarmee ze een overzicht maken van beroemheden die zeggen was ze denken en dingen voor elkaar krijgen 🙂
37. Emma Watson: The actress has consistently fought for women’s rights and education from the beginning of her career. As a United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador, she introduced the world to the HeForShe campaign, which invites all genders to step up for equality, a mission she now continues through her work with Time’s Up.
Het boek dat Emma gaat lezen voor haar boekclub ‘Our Shared Shelf’ in juli en augustus is bekend. Dit zal het boek ‘ Milk and Honey.’ een gedichtenbundel van schrijfster Rupi Kaur zijn, deze is niet vertaald naar het nederland maar wel te koop bij bol.com.
Dear OSS Members,
I am excited to announce that July/August’s pick for Our Shared Shelf is our first poet, Rupi Kaur, and her book of poems Milk and Honey. Rupi Kaur is an Indian-born, Canadian-raised poet and artist. She chooses not to use upper case letters or punctuation in her poems as an ode to her native language, Punjabi. She travels the world, including recently to her native country India, performing her poems and drawing crowds of hundreds. Both of her books, Milk and Honey and The Sun and Her Flowers, have made the New York Times bestseller list, which for a poet, is astonishing.
Over my lifetime, I have fallen in and out of love with poetry. Performing poems was what got me into acting (I had a primary school teacher that made everyone learn one a week, and eventually I won a poetry recital competition!) In secondary school and at university, I loved deciphering the codes of poems in class discussion, but I honestly wondered if poetry would continue to feature in my life outside of an academic context.
Enter poets like Hollie McNish, Sabrina Mahfouz and Rupi Kaur- I demolished whole books in single sittings. Unlike poems I have often spent weeks unraveling, Rupi’s poems are not designed to obscure meaning or entertain too much ambiguity – they hit you like punches to the stomach. They are immediate, visceral and not easily digested. I am loathe to say Rupi has made poetry “accessible” because while this is the truth (Rupi’s poems and illustrations fit well into those famously square shaped Instagram frames), there is nothing easy or accessible about what Rupi chooses to talk about. In fact, the topics she chooses, are audacious.
Here is a 25-year-old girl saying the unsayable… to hundreds of thousands of people:
that she has been raped, that at times she has been abused, that she bleeds. And sin of all sins… she actually likes the hair that grows on her body. Yes. She actually thinks it is beautiful. And that she is beautiful as God made her – what a transgression. That her body is her home and nobody else’s.The last chapter of Rupi’s book is called ‘The healing’. I am astounded to think what grew in the garden of her heartbreak. Her sharing, leadership and representation is so generous and brave. I will be forever grateful that she took subjects, that as a woman, I still carry shame about, and made them art. It took me an extra step forward and gave me new language.
All my love,
Emma
Sinds: april 2023
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