Emma Watson signs with model agency
Some Potter fans may be taken by surprise to discover that Emma Watson has been quietly signed up by the model agency Storm, which launched the career of Kate Moss.
“She is on our books,” the agency confirmed, but would say no more about what work it may have lined up for Emma.
According to well-placed sources, though, she will shortly be unveiled as the new face of Chanel in a worldwide deal.
And how Chanel must be salivating at the prospect of harnessing the formidable power that Emma Watson has over the teen market. She was voted Britain’s greatest female role model in a magazine poll earlier this year, ahead of Keira Knightley and Kate Moss.
Harry Potter’s Emma Watson never needs to work again
The 17-year-old actress, said to have amassed a $23.4 million fortune, has admitted she need never work again.
“Let’s be honest, I have enough money never to have to work again,” she told a US magazine.
“But I would never want that.”
Watson can be seen in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , the fifth film in the series which opens in cinemas today.
The film, which will screen 155 times a day in Adelaide, is expected to equal or surpass Goblet of Fires’ $35.7 million box office haul in Australia.
Watson has already agreed to make a further two Harry Potter movies.
When not filming, she remains committed to her studies.
“People can’t understand why I don’t want to be a full-time actress but school life keeps me in touch with my friends,” she said.
“It keeps me in touch with reality.
“I have a really secure network of family and friends.
“My parents are lawyers and they have no interest in being part of this industry.”
Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry, is a little ahead of Watson in the bank balance stakes.
He has just signed a $58 million deal to appear in the next two films. At last week’s London premiere, he declared that he was looking for a girlfriend.
Watson, however, is not in the running in the movies at least.
Her character appears to be developing the first hints of a romance with Harry’s friend Ron Weasley.
