The Bling Ring’s Emma Watson feels like a total fraud
While she's carved an impressive career and returns to the big screen with Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring in July, Emma Watson has opened up about her insecurities, confessing that she feels like a "total fraud" as an actress.
Talking to Rookie magazine, Watson admitted that she feels more inadequate as her success increases, explaining that she has struggled with her confidence since the Harry Potter franchise ended revealing "It's called the impostor syndrome. It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases.
I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's going to find out I'm a total fraud and that I don't deserve any of what I've achieved'. I can't possibly live up to what everyone's expectations of me are.
It's weird - sometimes [success] can be incredibly validating, but sometimes it can be incredibly unnerving and throw your balance off a bit."
The young actress credited director Stephen Chbosky with helping rebuild her confidence when he cast her as Sam in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower after Harry Potter ended adding "After Harry Potter, I didn't feel very confident in myself as an actor. It's lucky that I've improved that now, but back then I needed someone to believe in me, and Stephen really did.
I'm not complaining, because people really have given me permission to evolve and have been very supportive of my work outside of Harry Potter.
So I don't feel too suffocated in that sense. But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be."
Watson stars alongside Leslie Mann in the aforementioned The Bling Ring which opens in the UK on July 5.
THE BLING RING OPENS ON JULY 5