Emma Watson Talks Beauty and the Beast with D23

D23: The Official Disney Fan Club has released the Spring issue of their magazine, Disney twenty-three and in the issue Emma Watson talks starring in Disney’s upcoming live action movie, Beauty and the Beast.

Emma will be taking on the role of Bell and in the issue she talks fighting to get the role, her favorite Disney princess, her version of Belle, filming with Dan Stevens instead of a tennis ball and so much more. Highlights can be found below.

On fighting to get the role of Belle: “I had to fight for the role. I had to audition. I had to prove I could sing. I really had to go for it. You can’t have doubts when you’re singing in front of a set of 200 people in one of the biggest musicals of all time.”

On her version of Belle: “A lot of what I was doing was making sure it kept true to the original and, where I could, making Belle as real as possible. In the animated movie, it’s [Belle’s father] Maurice who’s the kind of crazy, wacky inventor. In the movie, it’s really Belle. She comes up with an idea for a washing machine so that she can read while her creation washes the clothes.”

On filming with Dan instead of a tennis ball: “It was such a luxury to have Dan there at all. Usually when I’m working with CGI, I’m working with a tennis ball or I’m speaking to an orange dot — or, if I’m really lucky, I’m talking to an LED light. So having a living, breathing human there that I could respond to and I could play off of was wonderful — and, I think, really important for this story.”

D23 subscribers can read the full interview later this month. It has been shipped, so members should be getting in before the movie premieres on March 17.

I can’t wait to read it!

Source: D23