Emma Watson Announces Launch Of Her & Brother Alex’s New Gin, Renais

Emma Watson is releasing a gin with her brother, Alex. The pair announced that the public could expect their new gin, Renais, in the coming months. Emma spoke with the Financial Times’ How To Spend It about the upcoming launch in a brand new interview. Highlights can be found below.

On being introduced to alcohol at a young age: “I was quite surprised when other children were very excited about the idea of getting their hands on alcohol. Dad had been giving me water with wine at lunch since I was a child. So I was quite confused when I was a teenager and everyone thought alcohol was this forbidden fruit.”⁠

On her break from acting: “I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest. I think I felt a bit caged. The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over. To stand in front of a film and have every journalist be able to say, ‘How does this align with your viewpoint?’ It was very difficult to have to be the face and the spokesperson for things where I didn’t get to be involved in the process. I was held accountable in a way that I began to find really frustrating, because I didn’t have a voice, I didn’t have a say. And I started to realise that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn’t make me hate myself, ‘Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better.'”

Her full interview will be available this coming weekend with the FT Weekend.