Emma Watson (1)

A girl on the world stage

"I just felt like that part belonged to me. I know that sounds crazy, but from that first audition, I always knew." Filled with this confidence, Emma Waston stepped into one of movies' biggest franchises of all time, Harry Potter.

Stage One: The Blockbusters
Nine-year-old Watson actually fought through eight auditions, during which she became author J. K. Rowling's favorite for the part. She indeed became Hermione Granger, a transformation that spanned a decade and a lifetime. The time devoted to the eight-film series had its challenges as well.

Watson asserts that she will forever be proud of the Harry Potter films, but she also sees that they curbed her young life in some ways. She was often frustrated by her child star status in the press. She felt that she lived in a bubble, having little interaction with the larger film world. Yet, it was a broad bubble that also took her around the world. "It was really only once Harry Potter ended and I went to university that it hit me how unusual a position I was in."

Info Cloud
Teaching Topic: Decade, Score, Century and Millennium 表達年數的字
decade 10年
century 100年 (一個世紀)
millennuum 1000年
score 20年 (已經少用了)
除了
1. 1863 年林肯總統發表的蓋資堡演講,
開場說了: Four score and seven years ago (4x20=80+7年, 87年以前, 指的是美國開國那年的1776年)
2. Bible 說: Three score years and ten= 70年

Language Lab
audition n. [aud-聽]
a short performance to show the talents of someone (such as an actor or a musician) who is being considered for a role in a play, a position in an orchestra, etc. — often + for
- Many top actors attended the audition for the important role.
audition v.
- Angela flew to L.A. to audition for the leading role in the play.

franchise n.
the right to sell a company's goods or services in a particular area
- The family owns a big fast-food franchise in the States.
to offer the right to sell (your company's goods or services) in a particular area
- Matthew plans to franchise his business in other areas of Asia next year.

assert v.
to state (something) in a strong and definite way
- The defendant has been asserting his innocence since the beginning of the trial.
- Billy thinks that he should've asserted himself more during the negotiation of his contract.

curb v.
something that controls or limits something else — usually plural
- The new policy is designed to curb inflation.
- Roy curbed his temper when his boss scolded him this morning.
a short border along the edge of a street that is usually made of stone or concrete
- I asked the taxi driver to pull up to the curb so I could get out.

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