Emma Watson and Malala Yousafzai met for the Into Film Festival premiere of the big screen biopic “He Named Me Malala”.
Emma conducted a live Q&A with Malala as part of the event, with the interview screened in over 80 cinemas around the UK. The film festival kicked off with the live event in Birmingham.
Over 10,000 school children and teachers in 80 cinemas across the UK were treated to a live stream of Emma and Malala’s chat following the ‘Pupils’ Premiere’ of new film He Named Me Malala.
The Q & A opened with a conversation between the two young women which covered a variety of topics including education and identifying with feminism, while Emma also asked Malala questions submitted by students and teachers across the UK.
The full interview can be found on Emma’s Facebook page.
He Named Me Malala, directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, is an intimate portrait of Malala, who was targeted by the Taliban and severely wounded by a gunshot when returning home on her school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.
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Spain’s 63rd Annual San Sebastian Film Festival will open with Alejandro Amenabar’s Regression.
The dark thriller from the Spanish director behind The Others and The Sea Inside stars Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke. The plot of the film revolves around a father who is accused of a crime he has no memory of committing.
The San Sebastian Film Festival takes place Sept. 18-26.
Emma Watson is set to play the lead opposite Tom Hanks in James Ponsoldt’s next movie “The Circle,” which is a co-production between Playtone and Likely Story. It was rumored that Emma was offered the part, but seems like it’s official now.
Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now”) adapted the novel written by Dave Eggers and will also produce with Playtone’s Hanks and Gary Goetzman and Likely Story’s Anthony Bregman.
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Watson will play a young woman who’s hired for a big job in an Internet monopoly called the Circle, which links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. It’s there that she meets a mysterious older man, who will be played by two-time Oscar winner Hanks.
Watson will segue to “The Circle” once she wraps Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast,” in which she stars alongside Dan Stevens and Luke Evans. She next stars opposite Ethan Hawke in Alejandro Amenabar’s thriller “Regression,” and she has also wrapped the indie thriller “Colonia,” in which she stars opposite Daniel Bruhl.