Emma Watson once told the director of ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ that he was pushing her out of her comfort zone with certain scenes.
Emma Watson has established her career with many films after her Harry Potter days.
One of the films that helped round out her filmography was the 2012 feature Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Perks also saw Watson making out with her co-star Logan Lerman in the film.
But it was one of the few scenes that Watson tried to avoid watching.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower was a 2012 drama that was based on the novel of the same name by Stephen Chbosky.
Chbosky would also end up directing the feature. It starred Watson as a very outgoing high school student mentoring a socially awkward teenager played by Logan Lerman.
When Watson was first sent the script for the movie, she was already fresh off of her Harry Potter films. Because of this, and her focus on education, Watson wasn’t really proactively looking for more work at the time. So much so she’d told her agent to stop sending her scripts.
“Perks somehow made it under the door. [My agent] said I really think you should read this one and I had been reading things but Perks was the first thing that lit a fire under me. I thought it would be really important to make this film, I think this could really make a difference to a young person watching it. It felt quite special somehow,” Watson once said in an interview with Roobla.
To Watson, the story stood out from other movies and television shows that tackled similar subject matter.
“There’s so many teenage TV series and movies and it’s a subject matter that people are sick of hearing about but this one felt to me really honest and authentic and it didn’t glamorise the experience but it didn’t patronize it and sensationalise it. It just looked at it,” she added.
Watson was proud of her work in the film and the film itself. But there were certain scenes in Perks that she found difficult to re-watch. One of those scenes included making out with her co-star in the picture.
“It’s really funny because when I watch the film back, there are a few things I can’t watch. I can’t watch the Rocky Horror dancing scene, and I can’t watch the kissing scenes,” Watson once told Radio 1 (via Daily Mail).
In the film, Watson’s character pays tribute to Susan Sarandon and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was a scene she told Chbosky she was uncomfortable with.
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Source: Los Angeles Times (edited)
