Emma Watson admits missing acting but NOT THIS 'soul-destroying' aspect of it

British actor Emma Watson, who has been away from the screen for several years, admitted that she does profoundly miss acting; however, there is one aspect of the job that she doesn’t want to relive.

In a new interview, Emma Watson, 35, who made her on-screen acting debut at a young age, playing iconic Hermione Granger in the ‘Harry Potter’ film series, made a rare comment about what she does and does not miss about her job, since last facing the camera in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ (2019).

“In some ways, I really won the lottery [with acting], and what happened to me is so unusual,” said Watson, who has taken a step back from acting in past years to pursue a doctorate. “But a bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art.”

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“The balance of that can get quite thrown off,” she confessed.

“I think I’ll be honest and straightforward, and say: I do not miss selling things. I found that to be quite soul-destroying. But I do very much miss using my skill set, and I very much miss the art. I just found I got to do so little of the bit that I actually enjoyed,” she noted and explained, “The moment you get on a film set, you don’t get very long for rehearsal. But the moment you get to talk through a scene – or I got to prepare and think about how I wanted to do something – and then the minute the camera rolls, and getting to just completely forget about everything else in the world other than that one moment – it’s such an intense form of meditation. Because you just cannot be anywhere else.”

“I miss that profoundly,” reiterated the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ star. “I don’t miss the pressure. I forgot it was a lot of pressure.”