Emma Watson recently finished filming her scenes for the highly-anticipated live action adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast." August 15, her final date of filming for the movie, was also the date she learned she was going to be in "Harry Potter" 15 years ago. The British star cannot believe she has come full circle.
"It's one of those full circle moments as I did my last day on Beauty and the Beast as Belle, I was driving home and saw stuff reminding me that it was fifteen years to the day that I was cast as Hermione," she told Nick Grimshaw on his BBC radio program, according to Radio Times. "It's so crazy," the actress gushed. "It's more than half of my life."
The movie, which is set to be in theaters in 2017, also stars Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Audra McDonald, Stanley Tucci, Guga Mbatha-Raw and Kevin Kline. They began working on the movie as soon as the casting was complete in May and then producer Jack Morrisey confirmed via an Instagram post that filming has indeed wrapped up in the last week of August.
Meanwhile, the actress is set to work on her next film, a thriller co-starring Ethan Hawke called "Regression."
"It's one of those awesome films you think you know what it'll be and then it's something completely different," the actress continued in the radio interview. But as production for this movie has yet to start, the actress revealed that for right now, she's training to become a yoga instructor.
"I'm a massive yoga fan and I've been trying, for a couple of years now, to finish my yoga certification so that I can teach, which is very exciting," Watson said, according to Female First. "And so as part of that certification I went into a week of meditation teaching, which was amazing and a super great experience," Emma added.
Keeping busy with yoga may be doing her some good, too, as she admitted to going on a "silent retreat" after breaking up with Matt Janney, a rugby star, in 2014, according to Vanity Fair. "Everything clicked into place, in a way that it hadn't before," the actress said of her retreat. "I understood what I'm here to do and knew where to channel all this energy that has been coming at me. I now feel this sense of peace."
