The actress has opened up about the dark side of life a child star after being picked from a crowd at school to play Hermione Granger in the blockbuster movie series when she was just 11.

Talking to British Vogue for the December issue, Emma got candid about her bizarre childhood, admitting it came with guilt attached.

The actress said: “I’ve sat in therapy and felt really guilty about it.

“I’m like, why me? Somebody else would have enjoyed and wanted this aspect of it more than I did.

“And I’ve struggled a lot with the guilt around that. I’m like, I should be enjoying this a lot more, I should be more excited and I’m actually really struggling.”

Next year will mark 20 years since Emma and her co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint were catapulted into the spotlight and cast as the core trio of characters in J. K. Rowling’s big screen adaptation.

The trio went on to star in eight movies over a decade, ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in July 2011.

Emma says she turned to her family, parents Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, to keep her grounded after she felt “disconnected”.

She explained: “There were moments when it got so big where I almost had vertigo and felt it got so big that I felt l disconnected, and part of the peace within myself is remembering my identity.”

The star confessed she felt bad for not enjoying life in the limelight and tried keep hold of her roots and identity.

“I am someone’s daughter. I am my mother’s daughter, I am my father’s daughter, I am a sister. I belong to a family. I come from a place, I have roots,” she explained to British Vogue.

The Beauty and the Beast star described her Hermione experience as “otherwordly” and recalled her anxiety about being separated from her loved ones.

She said: “I’ve had to ask, ‘Am I still your daughter?’ Because it’s felt so weird sometimes, it got so big sometimes.”

The spin on the classic Louisa May Alcott novel sees the former Harry Potter star play the eldest and more sensible March sister, Meg.

The film is due to be released in UK cinemas on December 26, 2019.

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