Sure. Apparently, it happened on the set of ‘Order of the Phoenix’; Emma Watson didn’t enjoy doing lots of takes for her scenes. David Yates typically likes to do a fair few just to make sure they get it perfect. Watson got into an argument with him about it, apparently asking whether she was contractually obligated to do repeat takes, and he ‘politely’ responded that she was.
Judging by the fact that OOTP was filmed during 2006, and the article (from what I can remember) mentioned the factoid being from behind-the-scenes, I’d say this interview was sometime during that time or just afterwards.
To be fair, it took me forever to find the article, and I couldn’t even find the interview transcript. Which is weird, because I remember reading it a couple of months ago. Maybe it got deleted?
I distinctly remember him commenting that it seemed weird to him that they were ‘paying you [Watson] all this money for these films’, and that the least she could do was do some repeat takes. Now granted, Yates does like doing roughly 30 takes a time, but that doesn’t seem too bad when you factor in that most scenes with lots of talking tend to be only a few minutes long in the HP film series.
Also, Emma Watson is an actor; surely it’s pretty commonplace for actors to do lots of takes for films?
Having said that, whilst looking for the article, I did come across a GQ article about Dan Radcliffe where he talked about how he got sick of the repeat takes during HP. I don’t think he ever argued with David Yates about it, though.
@ronandhappiness You’re more up to date with Emma Watson critiques than I am. Do you know a link to the interview?
Thanks for the ask, anon. Hope that cleared things up.
No idea. I’ve never heard of Yates saying anything negative about Watson.
I didn’t know this. I’ ve always read that the nickname “onetake watson” was because her scenes didn’t need to be done again. And I remember Rupert was “re-redo Grint” or something like this
I can understand that misconception. It’s not that Emma Watson didn’t need to do her lines again; it’s that she didn’t want to do her lines again. She often believedshe’d gotten her lines right in the first take, and hated doing repeat takes.
Rupert got the name ‘Go-again Grint’ because he liked doing repeat takes just so he could get it as perfect as he could. Same with Daniel Radcliffe and the ‘Redo Radcliffe’ nickname.
From an outside perspective, it would seem that someone considering their performance perfect on the first take would be a good thing. But the vast majority of actors are surprisingly self-critical, and are constantly trying to push themselves to do better.
Sure. Apparently, it happened on the set of ‘Order of the Phoenix’; Emma Watson didn’t enjoy doing lots of takes for her scenes. David Yates typically likes to do a fair few just to make sure they get it perfect. Watson got into an argument with him about it, apparently asking whether she was contractually obligated to do repeat takes, and he ‘politely’ responded that she was.
Judging by the fact that OOTP was filmed during 2006, and the article (from what I can remember) mentioned the factoid being from behind-the-scenes, I’d say this interview was sometime during that time or just afterwards.
To be fair, it took me forever to find the article, and I couldn’t even find the interview transcript. Which is weird, because I remember reading it a couple of months ago. Maybe it got deleted?
I distinctly remember him commenting that it seemed weird to him that they were ‘paying you [Watson] all this money for these films’, and that the least she could do was do some repeat takes. Now granted, Yates does like doing roughly 30 takes a time, but that doesn’t seem too bad when you factor in that most scenes with lots of talking tend to be only a few minutes long in the HP film series.
Also, Emma Watson is an actor; surely it’s pretty commonplace for actors to do lots of takes for films?
Having said that, whilst looking for the article, I did come across a GQ article about Dan Radcliffe where he talked about how he got sick of the repeat takes during HP. I don’t think he ever argued with David Yates about it, though.
@ronandhappiness You’re more up to date with Emma Watson critiques than I am. Do you know a link to the interview?
Thanks for the ask, anon. Hope that cleared things up.
So, Rowan Blanchard liked some really biphobic tweets that I’ll post screenshots below. I’ve also heard she liked a tweet asking how to say fag in Italian, but I looked at her likes for 5 or 10 minutes and didn’t see it. That’s not saying she didn’t, I just can’t find it. I also remember her tweeting an ‘apology’ that was basically ‘I’m queer, so I can’t be wrong about this’ but, again, I don’t have screenshots of it, so if you want to take my word for it, you can, but if you don’t, then don’t.
Emma Watson has worn several revealing outfits, which isn’t bad at all, if she hadn’t shamed people for the same thing previously and never apologized.
Here are the screenshots about both:
I’m not saying people shouldn’t like them, and both have done good things, but I just don’t think they’re pillars of good feminism, ya know?
Thoughts, everyone? Please keep things calm; I don’t want to inadvertently start a comment war over here.
Because I totally agree, they would not last without Hermione and it’s totally adorable Ron is the one to point this out to Harry. None of the trio would have survived well without one another while searching for horcruxes – as we saw when Ron left.
Also the Romione aspect is!!!!!!!!
It’s cool they showed Ron being the one who wanted to stay too!
And Rupert looks good in that shot.
My problems however is that it’s a very Hermione is prefect and the boys would fail without them mentality the films and some fans have.
Not only that if you look at how they film the bits where Ron leaves later Harry and Hermione do survive pretty well without him – unlike the books – so it feels kinda weird to me!
Thanks for the ask.
Agreed.
I personally don’t have many positive things to say about that scene (apart from the fact that Rupert looked good.) The “Harry and Ron would die without Hermione” trope is false, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to reread the books. I don’t give a fuck if you ship Romione or Ronarry or Harmione, but if you don’t understand the trio’s friendship or how important they are to each other, then you haven’t read the books properly.
I didn’t like the Romione aspect either. I mean, “Do not tell her I said that”? Seriously, Kloves? Ron ALWAYS tells Hermione how brilliant and important she is. Ron would never shy away from letting Hermione know that she’s amazing. And Hermione knows that Ron thinks she’s brilliant too. So, “Do not tell her I said that”, goes against Ron’s character and Romione. I dislike the “girl is brilliant and boy knows this but won’t say it to her face” trope. It’s stupid as fuck and it’s not Romione. Heck, it would probably apply to Hermione, because sometimes, she dislikes telling Ron that he’s right about something (skiing, the house elves, disarming her in the DA meeting.) But I digress…
Steve Kloves has shown time and again that he never understood Romione or Ron Weasley (the piano scene was beautiful but I have a feeling that Emma Watson refused to come out of her dressing room until Kloves agreed to write a Romione scene.) Kloves never even tried to understand Ron or Romione because he was convinced that something would happen between Harry and Hermione. So when it became obvious that Ron and Hermione would be endgame after Book 6 (I mean, it was obvious to me since Book 2, but some people are slow), it was too late for him to understand Ron and Romione.
With @ronandhappiness on this. Kloves had no idea what he was doing when it came to the golden trio, or to their individual relationships with each-other.
Heck, it really wouldn’t surprise me if Watson had done that. Although she might have done it just so she’d get an excuse to flirt with Rupert (hey, you would if you got the chance, too!).
I simply don’t think she’s a good actor. To me, her acting reached a peak in POA, and never really improved. From OOTP, she just seemed to stop caring, and this showed in her portrayal of Hermione Granger. I have yet to understand why everyone made such a big deal out her acting, considering that (in my opinion, at least) pretty much every other young actor had considerably more acting range. Heck, Rupert Grint and Bonnie Wright had their characters butchered by the films, and they still did a brilliant job. Emma Watson got so many lines, but never seemed to put much effort into it after the fourth film (occasional scenes notwithstanding).
From what I’ve gathered from intersectional feminists, her feminist is seen as exclusionary towards women from poor backgrounds, as well as non-white women. Several years back, she referred to a Beyonce video as ‘fetishistic’, but then posed virtually-topless later on and referred to herself doing that as empowerment. From what I’ve gathered, this was highly hypocritical of her. In an interview where someone said that they thought the Beyonce video was empowering, Watson backtracked and said she felt the same way too (touching on another issue I have with her; the fact that she backtracks on issues so much that she comes across as insincere most of the time) . Although this was several years ago, and it’s possible that she realised her mistake.
According to many people who’ve worked alongside her or with her on projects, she has a reputation of being difficult to work with. I don’t mean in the old misogynistic stand-in phrase for ‘she’s a women who has opinions’, but in the sense that she is apparently often very rude to people (especially if they are on a lower level of power than her).
According to extras on the set of the HP films, she was repeatedly rude towards them (with numerous accounts displaying her saying to other lead actors “why are you talking to them? They’re only extras”). Even going back to the first few films, she was often rude to people on-set.
It’s been pointed out by many that she apparently developed ‘diva’-ish tendencies on the set of the last few HP films. According to David Yates, she would get into arguments with him because she hated doing more than one take, believing she had done it perfect the first time round. Yates said on the matter (and I’m paraphrasing-at-best here) ‘We’re paying you all this money to act in these films; the least you can do is try your best.’. This led her to acquire the nickname ‘One-take Watson’.
Also, according to people on-set, the film-makers ended up having to change production schedules around to suit Watson. On several occasions, they had to cancel filming on the day of shooting, simply because she had commitments elsewhere that she didn’t want to re-schedule. Even the lead of the franchise Daniel Radcliffe didn’t do this (at least, not that I’ve ever heard of).
Now granted, it’s been theorised that she has some social-anxiety issues going on, which could make it difficult for her to establish good relationships with people. I have some social anxiety myself, so I can sympathise. But after over a decade of her apparently being rude to so many people, it does make you wonder whether she’s actually made any efforts to change her behaviour.
Watson has done some good things; she’s made feminism more appealing to young women, and has shown public support for charitable causes, as well as being openly supportive of trans people.
I personally consider her to be problematic. I don’t hate her; I just don’t think much of her. That’s just my opinion, though.
Thanks for the ask, anon; hope that cleared things up!
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