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Emma Watson to take a year off for feminism
Emma Watson is all set to learn more on feminism and has announced to take next year off from acting for the same.
Emma Watson has announced to take next year off from acting and is all set to learn more about feminism.
During an interview for Paper magazine, Emma, United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador in conversation with author and activist Bell Hooks said,“I’m taking a year away from acting to focus on two things, really.” She continues, “My own personal development is one … My own personal task is to read a book a week … I almost thought about going and doing a year of gender studies, then I realized that I was learning so much by being on the ground and just speaking with people and doing my reading.”
The Harry Potter star who is currently working with the United Nations’ HeForShe, an initiative aimed at engaging men for gender-equality, will also invest her time in the project.
“I’m on my journey with this and it might change, but I can tell you that what is really liberating and empowering me through being involved in feminism is that for me the biggest liberation has been that so much of the self-critiquing is gone,” Watson said.
Before her Hollywood hiatus, Watson will be seen playing the lead in Disney’s live-action movie Beauty and the Beast and in the thriller The Circle,alongside John Boyega.