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Wallflower  Emma Watson on The Perks of Being a Wallflower and
Leaving Harry Potter Behind  The adaptation of The Perks of
Being a Wallflower comes out this Fall, and I took a trip to the
set last year to observe a day of filming and interview the
cast. The movie tells the story of a teen, Charlie (Logan
Lerman), who has a hard time fitting in until he finds a special
group of friends. Emma Watson plays Sam, a high school senior
who gets close to Charlie but struggles with her own issues.
When I and a few reporters chatted with Watson about the film,
she talked about why she wanted to play Sam so much, moving on
after Harry Potter, and how director Stephen Chbosky, who also
wrote the book, envisioned her as Sam before she signed on.
What attracted you to this role and this story? Emma Watson: I'd
been reading scripts after the fourth Harry Potter movie around
the age of 15, 16 and just didn't read anything that I really
loved instantly . . . it's almos