Emma Watson has revealed she is “so glad” she stepped away from acting after 2019’s Little Women.
The 33-year-old has been in the public eye since she played Hermione Granger at the age of 10 in 2001’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
“I’m just so glad that I did [step away from acting] because I have this feeling of having my own voice and creative space and sovereignty in some way that I don’t think I did before – more autonomy,” Watson told Vogue.
“I’m so glad that I allowed things to be messy for a minute and to really allow myself to not know [what’s next], because the knowing that I’ve come to, I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”
Watson added that her time in Hollywood had disabused her of the notion that success necessarily leads to happiness. “I get a frontrow seat [with] some of the most successful, beautiful, incredible people in the world,” she said