“Hi Channel Young! I’m Emma Watson. I’m here today for Lancôme and I hope you’re having a great, great Christmas and wonderful celebrations. Thank you so much!”

“Yeah, I’m usually in a rush so I try and do everything quite quickly, but I don’t like the feeling of wearing too much stuff on my face. I think that’s one of the good things about Lancôme products, they don’t feel too heavy, they have a very light textures, they’re very breathable, and I’m always very careful about wearing sun protection and very, very careful about taking make-up off at night. Those are the main things I’m really, really careful about.”

“During the day I don’t wear too much but if I’m going out at night I’ll wear a sort of a very light foundation … the Miracle Compact is really good for that because it’s not really thick and you see the skin underneath, which is really nice. I think you have to do it in a way that says fun and just enjoy the process of getting ready. I always put on music, I light candles, I have friends with me … I make a whole thing out of it. Sometimes I enjoy the getting ‘ready part’ of my evening more than the going out part, which is a bit worrying, but I really enjoy that whole ritual.”

“More than anything I think fashion just has to be something that’s fun, if it’s not fun there’s no point in it really. It has to be something you enjoy and that makes you feel good and makes you feel comfortable, so I really focus on that. And yeah, just experimenting and being creative with it.”

A behind-the-scenes photo was also released.

Elle Taiwan also had a quick interview-type thing with Emma while she was in Hong Kong. According to the article (and a quick Google Translate that was as truncated as ever), Emma will continue to be the face of Lancôme in 2012 and enjoys using Lancôme’s ‘Expert’ line as it gives a natural look that doesn’t look like it’s caked on; she also mentioned that the product covers her flaws and blemishes effortlessly and provides “100 per cent coverage”.

Emma wore a backless blue Ellie Saab dress and silver Jimmy Choo sandal pumps to the dinner.

Big thank you to Hillie at Saorise Ronan Web and Adoring-Emma@LJ for the clearer shots from the night! Please refer to our previous post for more photos from Emma’s promotions in Hong Kong.

“This is my first time to Hong Kong… this is my second time to Hong Kong. I came a few years ago and I absolutely love the city. I always love traveling in Asia. It has such an amazing and really interesting culture and history. I love the landscape. It’s a very urban city.”

Emma’s rumoured next stop will be at the Dubai International Film Festival for the premiere of “My Week With Marilyn”, along with co-stars Michelle Williams, Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. See more about this event.

In related news, the head costume designer on the set of “My Week With Marilyn” spoke recently to Instyle.co.uk about her project; in the interview, she talks about her inspiration for Lucy’s (Emma’s character) wardrobe and how she came about creating it.

“I’m studying and really excited about my next projects,” she said. “I can’t really talk about them right now, but I am going to try and fit in some film projects next year in between school.”

In My Week with Marilyn, which stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Watson plays Monroe’s wardrobe assistant, Lucy. After the Harry Potter films, she was thrilled to take a role that wasn’t quite as high profile.

“I loved it,” she said. “It was less pressure, but at the same time it was an interesting role, although it was a small role. I loved the script and loved the story, and I’m very interested in Marilyn, so I really wanted to do it.”

Read more at the source.

And Emma Watson’s character comes across as slightly naïve but fashion conscious. How did you go about defining her character through costume?
I’d found, in my research, an original cast and crew photograph of The Prince and the Showgirl. Emma was based on a real character and so there was a girl, or a couple of girls, that we could have chosen [from the photograph] so I just picked up on one girl and I based Emma on her because she feasibly could’ve been her. She was wearing a tartan dress, so I found Emma an original tartan dress – all of Emma’s clothes were vintage. I also wanted to introduce a touch of the American influence with Emma because the youth culture was just hitting at that period and we had Jimmy Dean, Marlon Brando, Sandra Dee. I wanted to pick up on that Sandra Dee type of character.
Read more at the source.

Emma Watson hung up her wizard hat this summer after the final chapter of the “Harry Potter” saga his theaters – and the Brit beauty has wasted no time putting Hermione Granger behind her. She’s got two new movies: “My Week With Marilyn”, out next month, and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, which will be released next year. And then there’s her new gig as the face of Lancôme’s Rouge in Love lipstick and nail polish range, which arrives in stores on Valentine’s Day (the actress already appears in ads for the French brand’s fragrance, Trésor Midnight Rose). Here, she shares her beauty essentials.

Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Lashes
“I’m big into Twiggy so I do bottom lashes and top lashes. This is really cool because it’s specifically designed to get that look.”

Lancome Bi-Facil Eye Makeup Remover
“Way before I became the Lancôme ambassador, I was using the Bi-Facil. You can just leave it on to soak up your eye makeup and it doesn’t feel like your skin is being stripped away.”

Beauty Icon: Mia Farrow
“Going backwards, I love the naturalness of Jane Birkin and the French actresses who don’t look like they are trying too hard – which is definitely the coolest. But Mia Farrow was the big inspriation for the haircut.”

Read more at the press archives.

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” has a tentative 2012 release date and stars Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd, Mae Whitman, Johnny Simmons and Nina Dobrev.

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“I was very nervous before we started shooting. I was very nervous about the American accent,” she told a handful of reporters outside Peters Township High School. It doubles as Mill Grove High School in the story set largely in 1991-92.

Some of her cast mates, after all, had life experiences much like their movie characters — dances, football games, pep rallies and even graduation in white gowns (for the girls) and black gowns (for the boys) and matching mortarboards.

“They went to an American high school, they know what prom looks like, all these little details that I had no idea about. So I was a little neurotic.

“My script was covered in notes about all these American words, American slang. I was quizzing my friends about high school and prom and everything, and then Steve was just like, ‘Emma, this is great and everything, but you just really need to let all of that go’ because he said he saw me as Sam, and it was kind of as simple as that.”
Read more at the press archives.

Transcripts from the articles can be seen here (the interview) and here (style diary) in our press archives. Scans have been uploaded here in the galleries, while the new Munro shot can be seen here.

Emma Waston: Harry Potter star to fashionable force – Elle Canada November 2011
The fact that the daughter of two British barristers signed up to study English, history and art at the Ivy League school Brown University at the very pinnacle of her fame (when some other starlets end up scoring their first DUI arrest) is a tribute to her steely work ethic. But one can’t help but wonder if she feels like she has something to prove. “Schooling is important to me,” she says. “Having another part to me means that I don’t just feel valued for the way I look.”

But tackling a degree in the midst of a gruelling shooting schedule isn’t exactly child’s play. When Watson decided to take a semester off school, a maelstrom of media erupted, accusing her fellow students of bullying her right off the Ivy League commons—an accusation that she said was “beyond unfair” to the friends she made there. (Besides, she had even performed in the school production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters.)
Read more in the press archives.

Emma’s Style Diary – Elle Canada November 2011
• “I’m English and I have a pale complexion, so I love blush.”

• “In the garden of my father’s house in London, we have jasmine growing on the balcony, so the scent of jasmine always makes me think of summer evenings and being outside.”

• “I still have lots of family and friends in Paris. My favourite places are Café de Flore, the Shakespeare and Company bookstore and walking along the Seine.”
Read more in the press archives.

Accompanying the new interview, our first official look at Emma as Sam from the movie! The first promotional image from the film, also featuring Logan Lerman as Charlie, can be seen in our galleries; as can a new behind-the-scenes photo of Emma, Logan and director-writer-screenwriter Stephen Chbosky, which can be seen here in our galleries.

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“Oh my goodness, so many firsts,” she said, speaking in an excited rush during a break from filming. “I did the prom! We all get dressed up and we go in a limo, and get photographs. It’s been really fun for me to get to graduate. Eating in the school canteen; all these things that I’ve always sort of said to my American friends, ‘Oh, that looks amazing, that looks so fun, I’m jealous.’ And I get to do it for this movie.”

And Ms. Watson, accustomed to acting alongside people and in a story she had known for a decade, “started freaking out,” she said. She threw herself into research, e-mailing friends about their high school experiences and worrying about how to create a bond with this new, unfamiliar clique. (Shades of the encyclopedic Hermione are there, and of Ms. Watson’s semesters at Brown University, where she plans to return to complete her undergraduate degree.)

But studiousness wasn’t necessary. They just hung out. They formed a hotel-room band: Mr. Miller drummed, Mr. Lerman played guitar, and Ms. Watson sang. They jokingly called themselves Octopus Jam. Friends dropped by; noise complaints followed. Before she knew it, the world of Hogwarts had receded.

Read more at the press archives.

Two photos from the shoot have been released today, including: a clearer and larger shot of Emma’s bunny girl shot and a new image, a similar shot from the image featured on the cover. You can check out all the available photoshoot images here in the galleries.

“I’d never do a celebrity endorsement. Lancôme was taken aback by how much input I wanted to have. But I would never just put my name on something. It’s more interesting to have a genuine involvement with a brand, rather than showing up on the day and looking pretty. Also, as much as I do love fashion, I’m an actress first and foremost. Lancôme represents great actresses and that appealed to me.”

“Women are really hard on themselves and the media is really hard on us. Whenever I hear anyone say anything about another woman that’s negative about their image, I just jump on them.”

“Sometimes I feel as though everyone’s waiting with baited breath for the three of us from Harry Potter to do something that will perpetuate the child-star stereotype,” she told the November edition of UK magazine Elle. “I don’t know if I’m the least likely person to go off the rails, but I don’t see any need to. It’s not on my agenda. There are too many other things I want to do.”

She loves dancing and is also partial to an alcoholic beverage at times. “I’m not that much of a lightweight. My dad’s great hobby is wine, so it’s always been part of our family life,” she explained. “For someone so little, I don’t get drunk very easily. It’s quite a good talent. I’m not challenging anyone to a competition though!”

“I can’t even imagine what that kind of fame must be like. So many people must wish they were in [Rob Pattinson]‘s position and think that he has the best life, but actually… there are prices you pay. Don’t interpret that from my perspective; it’s not so bad for me. I’m not in Rob’s position, I don’t have people screaming and crying and clawing at me. I’m so grateful for that,” she said.

“I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way. I find LA quite scary because of that – all those young people having plastic surgery. But the thing is, I don’t want to look like everyone else. I don’t have perfect teeth; I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who looks great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything. It’s ridiculous that that seems like such an unrealistic goal.”

“I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.”