Emma is in the current edition of ‘Seventeen’ magazine as this month’s “style star”! A interview is rather short and is a bit of a rehash from Emma’s interview with the magazine from last year, but it’s also accompanied by a brand new photo from the photoshoot! Thanks to EmmaW.org for the scan.

This year, she worked fashion magic on every red carpet. But when she’s off-duty, she looks even more amazing!

When did you first realise your style made such an impact?
I was 11 the first time someone asked me who I was wearing. I was like, “What do you mean? My dress?!?” But I’ve always loved that it comes with the job. I’ve definitely taken interest.

How did you find your fashion voice?
Sometimes on photoshoots, I’ve had to say, “This is too sexy for me. This isn’t my thing.” A rock-and-roll biker jacket and hot pants is not who I am. I’ve learned to politely sayd, “Look, I’m sorry. I’m not comfortable.”

Did cutting your hair change the way you dress?
I can wear things that are a bit more graphic. I never used to wear black! I try to avoid it because I feel like it’s the easy option. I’m young, so it’s nice to play with colour and not just wear black all the time. I’ll save that for when I’m older!

A whole bunch of online media sources have simultaneously published their set visit interviews with the cast of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”. BuzzSugar.com, JustJared.com, Hollywood.com and NovelNovice.com. All of these interviews have similar answers – they were all conducted at the same time – but each has at least one answer different or slightly expanded. If you don’t feel like going through five separate, but similar, articles, you can always peruse the “Perks” tag in our quotes archive.

As well as the cast talking about the film, Emma’s co-stars were not short on compliments for her. Ezra, Logan, Mae and Nina all had some great things to say about Emma and her acting ability.

JustJared.com ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ Set Visit
Emma is taking on the pivotal role of Sam in the film, the main love interest of the story’s lead character and the person who encourages him to be himself. While working on the Harry Potter films for most of her childhood until her adult years, she was looking for a film to break out into a new type of role.
Read more at the press archives.

‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’: What We Learned on Set Share
Watson told Hollywood.com that many of her wardrobe pieces were her own, but she was intimidated by her character Sam’s need for “great style.” (Right, like Watson could ever want for a stylish air.) “A lot of the clothes are actually my clothes. I’m actually wearing one of my grandmother’s dresses, which I got altered … Sam’s style is very interesting. There’s a couple of looks that have been interesting for me to wear, because they’re very all-American. I’m like, ‘Wow, if my friends could see me now,’” she giggled.
Read more at the press archives.

Exclusive Set Visit & Cast Interview: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
For lots of different reasons, but there are bunch of scenes that are just Ezra, Logan and I – Patrick, [Charlie, and] Sam – and we ended up adlibbing a lot and riffing off one another. That’s been really fun. And, I would say, there’s a scene where Patrick and Sam dance at homecoming, and I would say that, but I was really too terrified to enjoy it. Because I had to get up in front of, like, 300 extras and do a two-minute … crazy, like, full-on dance. Which was fun, but also terrifying.
Read more at the press archives.

Exclusive Set Visit & Cast Interview: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I was very nervous before we started shooting. I was very nervous about the American accent. I was very nervous about the fact that I didn’t know, apparently, the other kids on this movie have had the experiences that, you know, change their characters’ journey in the story, because 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 about. My script is covered in notes about, like, all these American words, all this American slang. I was quizzing my friends about high school prom and everything.
Read more at the press archives.

And, as before, a whole lot of promotional stills for “Perks” have been updated with high quality additions. Check out of all of the promotional photos from “Perks” here, in our photo galleries.

Anyone else excited for “Perks”?!

The New York Times’ style subject, T-Magazine, have released their long, extensive interview with Emma and have also released images from a new photoshoot! The interview, which spans three pages on The New York Times webpage, has Emma talking candidly about her American accent, living in London, her struggle with choosing between an academic or acting career, modelling for Lancôme, confirming her involvement in “Beauty” and stating it will begin filming in Summer 2013 and much, much more!

You can check out the stunning new photoshoot – shot by Alasdair McLellan – here in our photo galleries; you can check out the interview here in the press archives.

Big thank you to Bliss for the tip-off! :)

The Graduate

Emma Watson, the onetime co-star of the most successful movie franchise ever, is a very grateful and a very lucky person. How do I know that? Because I sat down with the 22-year-old in a gastropub in a trendy neighborhood of North London, and in the course of an hour’s conversation she said “grateful” five times and “lucky” eight. True, of those five “grateful”s two were of the “ungrateful” form — yet these were embedded in clauses like “I felt guilty because I felt like that meant I was ungrateful. . . .” So, as you can see, Watson is a young woman who wants it put firmly on the record that she understands human lives are shaken up in the snow globe of uncertainty, and that simply because she’s ended up being covered in golden flakes, she doesn’t take it as her due, oh, no.

Pale skinned, serious of mien, with tiny little Meissen china ears furled tightly against her tiny little Meissen china head, her brown hair scraped back into a bunch, her meager form lost in a baggy white T-shirt, Watson still looks younger than she is. She’s neat-featured; all the headlines of her face — eyes, brows, cheekbones — seem as if underlined. And it’s quite possible that this rather serious emphasis, all those years ago, alerted the casting director that this 9-year-old girl should play Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, rather than the umpteen thousand others who were gagging, swooning, dying to do so. Oh, and then there’s her mouth, which, in mid-moue, has a top lip that looks sharp enough to give you a paper cut.

Read more at our press archives.

Five more promotional stills for “Perks” were released today, including a shot of Emma as Sam performing “Rocky Horror Picture” show scene and the iconic “we are infinite” scene through the tunnel. Clearer stills from graduation and one of the many parties in the book have also been released.

Edit! High quality photos – from this batch and from previous uploads – have been added thanks to NovelNovice.com.

Five new promotional stills from Emma’s upcoming movie, “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, have appeared online recently, all of which can be seen in our galeries (follow the links).

In other “Perks” news, Collider.com are reporting that the initial release date for “Perks” – 14th September – has been pushed back a week and the film will now get its limited release from 21st September 2012. This news has also been confirmed by BoxOfficeMojo.com.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, from writer/director Stephen Chbosky and starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, has been pushed back a week from September 14th to September 21st of this year.

As we told you a couple of days ago, Entertainment Weekly have featured “Perks” in their upcoming fall movies to watch feature. The magazine also has a new interview with Emma, where she discusses filming “Perks”, Pittsburgh, her American accent and even touches on her Coppola docudrama, “The Bling Ring”. Scans and a transcript from the interview can be seen below.

Big thank you to Ali from Ian Somerhalder Web for the scans!

Emma Watson
[from] The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chombsky not only wrote the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower but he wrote the screenplay and directed the film, too. That’s unusual.
In terms of being true to the book, we couldn’t fail. And that’s a relief. It’s always scary when you know how much something means to other people – you don’t want to mess it up.

How did he persuade you to play Sam, a rebellious and popular high school girl?
At our initial meeting, he said, “Okay, not only is this going to be one of the most important parts you play, you’re also going to have the summer of your life and meet some of your best friends.” I thoguht, “That’s quite a claim. Who is this guy?” [laughs] Everything he said came true.

I’m assuming it was a fun shoot?
Who knew Pittsburgh was going to become one of my favourite places in the world? When I first arrives, I was like, “Oh my God, this is going to be awful – we’re here for seven weeks? There’s nothing here!” And then it worked out perfectly. [The cast and crew] all lived together in a hotel, and all the rooms were connected. We ate together every night, played music and games. A lot of barriers come down when you’re living together.

How hard was it to master an American accent?
Before I started on the movie, I lost a lot of sleep over it, I have to tell you. I’ve watched movies when actors don’t get the accents spot-on, and it immediately takes you out of the moment. So I really felt like I had to get it right. I worked with an amazing voice coach, and we went through every single word and every single syllable and really hammered it.

You recently wrapped Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring, where you play a fame-obsessed teen who tobs celebrities’ homes.
I’m partly filled wih dread and partly filled with excitement. It’s weird to play this crazy girl. If people find it difficult seeing me with an American accent, wait until they see this.

Entertainment Weekly have posted an excerpt of a brand new interview with Emma where she talks meeting Stephen Chombsky, leaving Hermione behind and her new favourite place, Pittsburgh. The interview and a new promotional still from “Perks” will be available in the upcoming issue of ‘Entertainment Weekly’, on the newsstands August 10.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower marks Emma Watson’s first major post-Harry Potter role. She remembers meeting with Stephen Chbosky (who not only wrote the 1999 novel but wrote the screenplay and directed the movie, too) who persuaded her to take on the part of Sam, a rebellious and popular high school girl. “At our initial meeting, he said, ‘Okay, not only is this going to be one of the most important parts you play, you’re also going to have the summer of your life and meet some of your best friends.’ I thought, ‘That’s quite a claim. Who is this guy?” Watson says with a laugh. “Everything he said came true.”

The cast — which includes Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller — all bonded while living in the same hotel in Pittsburgh, which Watson now calls one of her favorite places. It was there that Watson can point to one particular scene — when Sam stands up in the back of a pickup truck driving through a tunnel — as the moment she was able to truly graduate from Hogwarts. “I started as Emma with some Hermione still left in my system,” she says. “I went through the tunnel and I came out ready to start something new.”

Check the video below and you’ll the scene she’s talking about! And for more on Emma Watson (including how she mastered an American accent) and 97 other fall movies, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands August 10.