Everybody likes it when their hard work is praised and recognized, but "Harry Potter" alum and UN ambassadress for gender equality Emma Watson is different.
The actress does not feel like people should be heaping praises on her acting career because it's something she just did as a kid. "It's something I've really wrestled with. I've gone back and I've quizzed my parents," Watson told Vogue UK about acting from such a young age. "When I was younger, I just did it. I just acted. It was just there. So now when I receive recognition for my acting, I feel incredibly uncomfortable. I tend to turn in on myself. I feel like an imposter... It was just something I did."
But after graduating from the "Harry Potter" series and landing more roles, then becoming the UN ambassadress for gender equality, which is the HeForShe campaign, Watson said that things started falling into place for her and she accepted her new role with zeal.
"Part of me relaxed after I took on that position, it gave me a sense of belonging and purpose," she said. "Everything clicked in to place, in a way that it hadn't before. I understood what I'm here to do and knew where to channel all this energy that has been coming at me. I now feel this sense of peace. People say that I'm different since I did it."
Even though Watson now feels more certain of herself, that does not mean that things always come easy for her. There are some people who still regard the actress as a one-trick pony, and think that she could not portray other roles other than the bookish Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" series. Watson even told La Prensa that, "sometimes, I have to prove that I can be different people."
This was the case when she worked on the psychological thriller "Regression" with Ethan Hawke. Watson admitted that Angela's character was "a challenge" since she is always afraid of "uncertainty" and "knowing that something will happen, but you don't know where or when."
But one thing great about "Regression" was that it gave Watson the chance to work with director Alexander Amenabar, ever since she saw his other works "The Others" and the Oscar-winning "The Sea Inside.
"Working with Alexander, who is such a master of the genre, was very reassuring and I trusted him a lot," she said.
