How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be."Īlexis Neiers, the real-life Bling Ring member on whom Watson's character is based, took to Twitter to brand the movie "trashy and inaccurate". She's all of these things and I realised that I really hated her.
"I'm probably the least obvious choice to play the role … The character is everything that I felt really strongly against – she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. That transformation entailed taking time out from her studies, at Oxford and at Brown University, to learn to pole dance Coppola also arranged for the cast members to perform an actual burglary as preparation for the shoot. Nicki seemed like an opportunity to do that." What I'm trying to get towards is that I want to be a character actress.
"It wasn't like I needed to go out there and try to find the furthest part from Hermione so I could get away from her," she told GQ magazine recently, "because that seems like a negative place to jump off from trying to get away from something rather than trying to get towards something. A character less like Hermione it would be difficult to imagine, though the actor maintains this didn't influence her desire for the part.
Watson plays Nicki, a fame-hungry, home-schooled rich-kid who's also quite a whiz at pole dancing. The gang – named the Bling Ring by the LA media – were eventually captured through their own sloppiness, and several members received four-year prison sentences. From these figures they swiped more than $3m (£1.9m) worth of cash and goods using only chutzpah and the internet: once they had scoured online celebrity sites to determine that their targets were out of town filming or partying, they simply Googled the stars' addresses and turned up to find invariably that doors had been left unlocked, security systems not activated and, in the case of Hilton, there was even a key under the doormat. The picture tells of a gang of teenagers preying on the Hollywood homes of stars such as Paris Hilton (who was singled out for repeat visits), Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom.
The 23-year-old actor, who played the bookish Hermione across eight instalments and 11 years, is now the star of Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, a dazed and subtly disturbing tale of real-life burglary, privilege and celebrity which is heading this month for the Cannes film festival.
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