Emma Watson has admitted to once having a ‘terrible crush’ on her Harry Potter co-star during the early days of filming.

The Hermione actor, 34, took to The Jonathan Ross Show in 2012 to confess her two-year-long crush on her co-star.

Here’s what she had to say:

During the interview, Watson said that she initially found it really difficult to play someone other than Hermione after the film franchise ended.

It’s hard to believe that the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 came out so long ago in 2011 and it would be the last time she would play the Hogwarts student.

“I didn’t know if I believed in myself yet as an actress, outside the role of Hermione, which I knew I could do, and I did for a long time,” she said.

“I didn’t know if I had other people in me or not.

“I did doubt myself a little bit.

Watson opened up about her on-screen crush in the early Harry Potter days (ITV)

“I think I’d just played one person, who in many ways was similar to my own personality, and I played her for ten years and I got so comfortable doing that, that the idea of coming out and playing somebody else was terrifying.”

While sat on the couch, the actor recalled the first time she stepped onto a Harry Potter set.

Watson admitted that she proper fancied Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton.

“Between the ages of ten and twelve I had a really terrible crush on Tom Felton,” Watson said.

“To the extent that I would go into work in the morning and look down the numbers on the call sheet to see if he was going to be in.

“We love a bad guy, he was a few years older and he had a skateboard – and that just did it really.

Felton was 12 and Watson was nine when the pair first met during auditions (Warner Bros)

“He totally knew [she had a crush on him] and the thing is that he’d tell everyone, ‘I see her in a younger, sisterly way,’ and it just broke my heart. It still does.”

Well, after the release of his memoir Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard in 2022, Felton said he still had a great relationship with Watson.

“I was encouraged by a few people, Emma Watson specifically, to tell the whole story and not just sort of cherry-pick the fluffy bits,” he admitted.

“Not just because it was cathartic for me.

“But also in the hope that sharing those parts of my story will help others that are maybe not going through the best time.”

All’s well that ends well.

When it comes to films like This is The End, most actors have a fairly good idea of what they’re signing up for.

Whether it be Channing Tatum in a gimp suit, the numerous shot at every single actor’s career with them playing themselves, or just one of the many, many weird scenes in the film, the actors were pushed to their limits of comfort comedically.

For those who live under a rock, This is The End follows a group of Hollywood celebrities, all of whom are playing heightened versions of themselves.

James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, Jonah Hill, and Danny McBride star in the film, and try to survive the end of the world.

From Rogen and his fellow Superbad co–creator Evan Goldberg, the film has developed a cult following and managed to rake in over $125 million when it came out in 2013.

One actor who didn’t quite enjoy the male-focused and sometimes crude humour of the film, however, was Emma Watson.

Watson, who did make a small appearance in the film, walked off the set of the film, a move which Seth Rogen later said she was right to do.

Watson in This is The End (Sony Pictures)

The Harry Potter actor reportedly refused to film a scene involving Channing Tatum in a gimp mask being walked on a chain by a now cannibalistic Danny McBride.

Whilst unclear what the scene involving Watson would have entailed, a final version of this did end up making the film without her in it.

Rogen said in an interview with GQ in 2021: “I mean, I don’t look back on that and think: ‘How dare she do that?’ You know?

“I think sometimes when you read something, when it comes to life, it doesn’t seem to be what you thought it was.

“But it was not some terrible ending to our relationship. She came back the next day to say goodbye.

The pair at the films premiere (Alberto E Rodriguez via Getty Images)

“She helped promote the film.

“No hard feelings and I couldn’t be happier with how the film turned out in the end.”

“She was probably right. It was probably funnier the way we ended up doing it.”

The film is fairly batsh*t, so it is relatively shocking that they got all the celebrities they did to agree to it.

In previous interviews, Evan Goldberg said he made it a goal of his to get actors to say ‘no’ on set, and the only holdouts throughout filming was James Franco and Seth Rogen.

As well as being an incredible actress, Emma Watson also has a knack for coining dating terms which seem to really resonate with a lot of people, too.

She gave us all a new piece of lingo to incorporate into our love lives a few years ago which is still going strong, but she wanted to clear up exactly what she meant by it to avoid any confusion.

Back in 2019, ahead of her thirtieth birthday, Watson was quizzed about her relationship status during an interview with Vogue, and how she felt about where she was in life as she approached the milestone.

The Harry Potter star opened up about how she ‘had all these ideas’ about where she should be when entering the third decade of her life, which made her feel ‘stressed and anxious‘ about things she hadn’t got around to yet.

“And I realise it’s because there is suddenly this bloody influx of subliminal messaging around,” Watson said.

The actress, 34, described herself as ‘self-partnered’ rather than single (TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

She continued: “If you have not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby, and you are turning 30, and you’re not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career, or you’re still figuring things out…

“There’s just this incredible amount of anxiety.”

She went on to explain that she had never been convinced that people who claimed to be happy while single were actually content with their situation – until she herself realised she was at peace without a significant other.

Watson added: “It took me a long time, but I’m very happy [being single]. I call it being self-partnered.”

So, what exactly does this mean?

Well, the term essentially describes a single person who is completely satisfied staying that way – they are fulfilled by themselves and don’t feel as though they need a relationship to complete them.

And it’s certainly a lot more sophisticated than dubbing yourself a single pringle with a smile on your face, isn’t it?

Watson explained what she meant by the term (Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Either way, people loved Watson’s take on single life and being ‘self-partnered’ became pretty popular.

But the Beauty and the Beast actress wanted to clarify exactly what she meant by the phrase when she sat down with Vogue again in December 2023, while discussing how she was comfortable with the path she was on in life.

Watson, 34, explained her comment wasn’t ‘necessarily about her celebrating being single’ but rather realising that she was appreciative of how she had become so comfortable flying solo.

She said: “Getting to the point when I was 30, I was realising, ‘Oh, maybe I’ve figured out some things about how to care for myself better – maybe quite well, actually’. And taking pride in that.”

But like the rest of us, she still leans on her tight knit circle of friends and family to help her through.

Watson added: “Coming out of Covid, I really understood the importance of building community, having community and investing, very intentionally, time and energy into that.”

Still, she didn’t close herself off entirely to love – and has reportedly been dating fellow Oxford University student Kieran Brown since July 2024.

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has paid tribute to her late co-star Dame Maggie Smith after her tragic passing at age 89.

The wizarding world has lost another legend, and fans have been remembering the life and career of Smith for the past 24 hours.

Smith’s sons shared on September 27 that the Downton Abbey actress passed away in hospital, and what soon followed was a mass of tributes online from celebrities and fans alike.

Now Watson has shared her own heartbreak and loss of the co-star she had the pleasure of working with for a decade.

The 34-year-old took to her Instagram Stories to share what seemed to be a behind-the-scenes photo of herself and Smith during the filming of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2.

Dame Maggie Smith and Emma Watson spent a decade together for the film franchise (Warner Bros)

The picture is incredibly sweet and shows Smith placing her hand on Watson’s face as the young actress smiles.

She wrote on her Stories: “When I was younger I had no idea of Maggie’s legend – the woman I was fortunate enough to share space with.

“It is only as I’ve become an adult that I’ve come to appreciate that I shared the screen with a true definition of greatness.”

The two starred together in the wizarding franchise from 2001 until 2011, as Hermione Granger and Professor Minerva McGonagall respectively.

Watson continued: “She was real, honest, funny and self-honouring. Maggie, there were a lot of male professors and by God you held your own.

“Thank you for all of your kindness. I’ll miss you.”

Emma Watson’s tribute (Instagram/@emmawatson)

Watson wasn’t the only Harry Potter star to come forward with a touching tribute in light of the sad news.

Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter throughout franchise, told Variety in a statement: “The first time I met Maggie Smith I was nine years old and we were reading through scenes for David Copperfield, which was my first job.

“I knew virtually nothing about her other than that my parents were awestruck at the fact that I would be working with her.

“The other thing I knew about her was that she was a Dame, so the first thing I asked her when we met was ‘would you like me to call you Dame?’ at which she laughed and said something to the effect of ‘don’t be ridiculous!’

Watson paid tribute to her late co-star (Dave Benett/Getty Images for Violet Films)

“I remember feeling nervous to meet her and then her putting me immediately at ease. She was incredibly kind to me on that shoot, and then I was lucky enough to go on working with her for another 10 years on the Harry Potter films.”

The actor concluded: “I will always consider myself amazingly lucky to have been able to work with her, and to spend time around her on set.

“The word legend is overused but if it applies to anyone in our industry then it applies to her. Thank you Maggie.”

Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley throughout the eight films, went on to update his Instagram profile picture to an image of Smith and himself as a tribute.