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There's An Apparate For That

Emma Watson Nervous About Rocky Horror Dance In The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:45 am, June 5th, 2012


Emma Watson is well known for her role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series but the young actress is set to take on a role in another book adaptation soon. She’s playing Sam in Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and not only does she have to do an American accent in the film, she had to perform a dance routine from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 

Oddly enough, The Perks of Being a Wallflower has Watson starring alongside a pair of young men, just like she’s being doing for the last ten years in the Potter universe. And although she plays a much different character here, she thinks fans following her from her years at Hogwarts will enjoy it.

“I think Harry Potter fans will love it because it has so much heart, like the Harry Potter stories do,” Watson told E! at the MTV Movie Awards. “I feel like it’s the perfect transition from Harry Potter to kind of a more adolescent movie. It’s a little bit of an older tone. It’s darker.”

The novel was Chbosky’s first and published by MTV in 1999. The story follows a shy high school freshman named Charlie (Logan Lerman) who befriends a senior named Sam (Watson) and her stepbrother Patrick (Ezra Miller).

In the film, the characters perform in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Watson had to perform in some skimpy lingerie. ”I was very nervous to that stuff,” she said. “It was tough.”

But perhaps even tougher was trying to nail an American accent. ”I really wanted to get that right,” Watson said. “But Logan and Ezra were very instructive. If I ever said anything that sounded weird, they were like, ‘That’s not right!’ and we would fix it.”

The Perks of Being a Wallflower hits theaters September 14, and Watson is currently filming Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, inspired by the true story of teenagers who tracked celebrities via the internet in order to rob their homes.

Check out the trailer for Wallflower:

(via AceShowbiz)

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  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Somehow this book always seemed to get by me. Can anyone comment on whether it seems to be an accurate adaptation?

    Also, why is there a link to the Kardashian lingerie shoot above this comment box? Jesus Christ.

  • http://www.facebook.com/maude.garner Red Garner

    Emma Watson?! Rocky Horror?! *dies of joy*

  • Terence Ng

    The trailers are portraying it as this feel-good, inspiring, coming of age movie. To me, the book was a tragic coming of age tale, emphasis on tragic. I’m even apprehensive about watching the film because of how heartbreaking I found it when I read it as a struggling adolescent. It brings back a lot of emotions on my end. 

    It’s not particularly how I imagined the characters to look, particularly Patrick, but the overall visual style seems about right.

    Since Chbosky apparently adapted it himself for the silverscreen, I can’t imagine that it’s too off.

  • http://tmirai.deviantart.com/ Talia

    I agree with Terence. From the trailer, the story seems portrayed as a standard Hollywood’s idealized, pseudo-glamorous and always inspiring Growing Up a Young Person story while the book itself was quite real in a gritty, depressing sort of way. But I have hope. I love Emma Watson and I really liked the book. I just hope all of the raw emotion of the book won’t be lost in the retelling.

  • Anonymous

    hollywood, please dont ruin my very favorite book.

  • http://twitter.com/zenoferic Erica Throne

    An author adapting a book him/herself doesn’t mean as much as you might think; the author still has to make revisions based on what the producers and director say, and it’s still going to have to be made Hollywood-friendly. Depending on the contract, they could’ve even made changes to the author’s script afterward if something didn’t work. So I wouldn’t really trust that information.

  • Terence Ng

    That’s a good point. Now I feel even more apprehensive about this. Waiting for Patrick and Brad to get “Hollywood friendlied” the hell out. From the looks of things, Patrick’s already there…

  • Anonymous

    *clears throat* Please don’t call me stupid, but I read this book and I think I missed something…like, the whole ending.

    But Emma looks good and I like glamour, so I’ll go see it and like it and maybe one day, re-try the book.

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  • http://twitter.com/urbansuburbia Marie

    Gah, since when is this a movie??? No like…. It seems unfilmable to me.

  • Anonymous

    Er, how does this even work if they didn’t even attempt Hollywood Homely casting at the very least?

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