emma watson auditioning for role of aspie girl

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Emma watson apparently is auditiong for the part of a girl with asperger's in an upcoming movie

no WAY!! !! !! I dont want her to get the part!! !! !! ! i wont be able to seperate her face and voice from hermione

http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment/movies/2010/08/10/14977116-wenn-story.html

Watson chops hair for 'Tattoo' role?
By QMI AGENCY
Last Updated: August 10, 2010 11:03am

Harry Potter star Emma Watson may have cut off all her hair for a new role.

OK! Magazine is reporting Watson went with the new pixie-style crop in the hopes of snagging the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

"Cut my hair off a few days ago ... Feels incredible. I love it. I've wanted to do this for years and years; it's the most liberating thing ever. Hope you like," Watson said on her Facebook page, posting a photo for fans on Aug. 5.

But on Tuesday, the magazine quoted a source that says she cut her hair for an audition with the movie's director, David Fincher. The unnamed source says Watson "cut her hair to look the part. The character of Lisbeth is a misfit with spikey hair."

If Watson is auditioning for the role, it would be a drastic change from her role in the Harry Potter files. Instead of being an innocent teen learning magic, she would play a troubled 24-year-old woman with Asperger's syndrome who is an expert computer hacker. It would also mean Watson would need to take part in sex scenes.

The book, written by the late Stieg Larsson, has already been turned into a movie, but Fincher is set to direct the full trilogy of the novels. The male lead of Mikael Blomkvist will be played by Daniel Craig.

Also rumoured to be up for the role of Salander are Carey Mulligan, Canada's Ellen Page, Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.

ICK! Hermione and Padmae and all those other females can't play Aspie!! !! Natalie Portman played the princess or whatever Anakin's wife and as you said Emma Watson was Hermione! JUST NO!

i hope she gets the part she is a real good actress. and i do wonder did a person with autism audition for the part

Girl's gotta have a career after Harry Potter.

I'd just be more interested if she can pull off acting like a aspie girl well enough.

"Computer Hacker"

Sounds like another stereotype to me.

I think she is too NT to pull it off.

I thought it was Keira Knightly who played Padmae
That was Natalie Portman?

They both did because they could be made to look almost identical. Natalie Portman got all the major scenes, Keira Knightly got all the parts with few lines.

I think Natalie Portman is really talented... so talented I find it easy to get over the stereotyping. If Emma Watson is any good, then hopefully she'd be able to do the same.

I have to agree with DrS and Zara on this one. If actors don't attempt a wide range of roles they get typecast. In the acting world, that usually = career death.

It'll be interesting to see if she can do it convincingly.

Emma Watson is not in the running.

http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment ... story.html

Yeah, this was a rumor.

I don't think, that she can pull it off.

Good point. Anyone remember Linda Blair LOL! Emma and Daniel and Rupert will be wizards/magic characters forever now. (hope not) She is a good actress.

It depends on how this director handles it. In the book that this is based on, Aspergers isn't even mentioned until the book is almost ended and then it's just a single mention where one character wonders to himself if she has it. He wonders it because she avoids small talk and is always very blunt and never lies. It isn't her computer skills that make him wonder.

But that's the book. You never can tell what a director will do.

Go Go Natalie Portman!! !

She's doing/has done a psychology degree so maybe she might be armed with a bit of knowledge about AS to give her an edge over the other auditioning actresses.