Emma Watson breaks silence on 'soul-destroying' part of acting job

Emma Watson recently got candid and confessed she profoundly misses acting except for one aspect of the job.

The 35-year-old English actress gave a rare interview to Hollywood Authentic, which was published on Sunday, September 21.

In the interview, Watson admitted that she finds it blissful to actually work on a set but promoting and selling movies after starring in them has been a negative experience for her.

When the Harry Potter child star asked if she misses acting, she replied, "In some ways I really won the lottery [with acting], and what happened to me is so unusual.”

She added, "But a bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art. The balance of that can get quite thrown off. I think I’ll be honest and straightforward, and say: I do not miss selling things. I found that to be quite soul-destroying.”

"But I do very much miss using my skill set, and I very much miss the art. I just found I got to do so little of the bit that I actually enjoyed,” The Beauty and the Beast star noted.

It is pertinent to mention that Watson's last big-screen project before her 2022 short film that she also directed for Prada was 2019’s Little Woman.