Emma Watson opened up on heartbreaking search for real Hollywood bonds
The Harry Potter alum spilled that she entered the world of entertainment with expectations of film sets to feel like Harry Potter, where she made lifelong friends.
But "bone-breakingly painful" reality hit her hard, and she soon realized people don't hop in "those environments looking for friendships."
“I was coming to those sets with an expectation that I think I had developed on Harry Potter, which was that the people I worked with were going to be my family and that we were going to be lifelong friends,” she shared on the September 24 episode of On Purpose podcast.
The 35-year-old actress went to share with host Jay Shetty, “I came to work looking for friendship and that was a very painful experience for me outside of Harry Potter and in Hollywood, like bone-breakingly painful because most people don't come to those environments looking for friendships."
“They're looking for: ‘This is my chance. This is my role. This is what I want out of it, I'm focused. This is my job. This is my career.' And I was not of that mindset," she revealed.
Emma, who played the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, last starred in 2019 movie Little Women.
On the set of J.K Rowling's film series, ran from 2001 to 2011, the actress formed a strong bond with her costars, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint
“We were a community. We really were. And so I took that as an expectation into my other workplaces, and I just got my ass kicked. I really did," she added.