Emma Watson, who plays Hermione in the
Harry Potter
series, says she was shocked to learn that she has become a multi-millionaire after the films. The actor had been living on an allowance of just 50 pounds (Rs 3,000) a week until she was 18, when her father sat her down for the “money conversation”.
“By the third or fourth film, the money was starting to get serious,” the
Telegraph
quoted her as saying. “I had no idea. I felt sick, very emotional,” she added.
The actor, aged 20, who was cast in
Harry Potter
at the age of nine, confessed to being “straight and boring” in an interview in the December issue of
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. She has barely touched her estimated 20 pound million fortune, for which she was named Hollywood’s highest paid female in
Vanity Fair
earlier this year.
She chose instead to live in student digs while studying at Brown University in Rhode Island. It is such stoic self-control that led her to ban herself from reading the tabloids.
“There’s tons that’s not very nice and I’m very, very self critical, so it was like a drug for me,” she said.