Pratica di Shadowing: Emma Watson: “Dating Feels Like a Disaster… But Writing Saved Me” - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

I think what's nice is at the very least,

dating for everyone is basically a complete disaster and free for all.

So I feel like I'm in good company in that sense.

But I think it's funny,

occasionally people will apologize to me for the fact they've not seen my films.

And I will be like, please don't apologize.

That is bliss to me,

like music to my ears that you're not going to constantly be navigating.

And me also navigating with you,

this projection of me, or this Emma Watson avatar person will not be this ghost in the room.

So that's happened a few times where people have been like, I'm really sorry.

And I'm like, please don't apologize.

I'm so relieved.

I'm so incredibly relieved.

And then you realize they have the box in that later on.

Yeah, no, my God, I hope not.

But I mean, I guess I want people to appreciate my work,

but I think knowing you don't have to navigate that extra degree of weirdness is helpful and relief.

How do you help people get to know the real you at this stage in your life?

You know, I wrote this play that I actually sent you to read,

but I actually read parts of it to people because I find

that trying to explain sometimes how weird it is to be me I almost need aids.

It's so difficult to convey how weird it is and how surreal sometimes.

Sometimes I'll just be like,

can I just read you this thing I wrote?

Because I think it's going to shortcut you somewhere.

And so that's actually been incredibly helpful.

And I'm so glad I went and did this creative writing masters.

And I've spent more time writing about my experiences because sometimes I can't even articulate it to myself.

Like how are you supposed to explain something to someone else that you can't really even understand for yourself?

So I think writing, creative writing,

making art has been the best therapy I've ever done because it's helped me get clarity.

And also just be able to laugh at myself and laugh at the situation.

I think one-on-one therapy can be amazing,

but like there is a kind of intensity and a seriousness to

that that maybe when you're writing something down and

when I wrote the play I wrote it for my friends

and family

and I was able to kind of be more my bring more of myself to the picture in a way

which is someone who's like this is just nuts like I

just can't like I can't sometimes I just genuinely cannot believe that my life is my life and

I need a place I can put that yeah I loved

so just for everyone who's you know hearing about the referencing of this play Emma wrote a play

which helped her closest friends and family understand her experience of life basically yeah right is

that a bad description no no it's not a bad description

but like specifically I wrote the play about me transitioning from basically being a full-time actress,

an activist, to trying to move home and like be a normal student

and attend a normal university as a super famous person.

And I basically kept a journal of what those experiences were like

and chronicled them for my friends and family for about a year

and then performed it as a one-woman show at the end of the first year

and handed that in as my as my first year piece of work

and yeah yeah did it get an a it got a

distinction oh amazing great there we go i love it it actually did not

that that was the point but it kind of wasn't the point

but i think the coolest thing was was like i read

it for my roommate for example who's been living for seven years

and he was like wait wait stop stop stop he's like

is this actually how you feel like do do you actually feel this?

And I was like, yeah,

I wouldn't have written it if I didn't.

And he was like, I had no idea that this was how you felt.

And this is someone I live with.

And so for me, who I perceive myself to be this massive open book,

and actually I realized, I was like,

wow,

I think I'm doing a good job of bringing the people that I love along with me on what this feels like.

And actually, I'm not saying nearly enough or explaining it in a way where it makes sense.

And so even my parents were just like, couldn't believe it really.

Yeah.

I'm sure they were brought to tears by parts of it.

I mean, I was so moved by it.

And I really hope you do one day make it a production in some capacity

because it was so moving and so powerful.

And it was, Emma, honestly,

it was what every public figure has ever tried to explain to me about their experience,

yet put so succinctly, powerfully,

and meaningfully that anyone could relate to it.

And I think anyone meaning anyone who's ever felt misunderstood,

loved for what they have and not who they are,

seen for parts of themselves and not all of themselves.

And I really believe it will be such a service to

everyone to share it one day in however way you decide to,

because honestly, I was gripped.

I was completely captivated.

I couldn't put it down.

I feel like I'm going to read it again and again and again.

It's not something that I think you read once.

Not only are you a brilliant writer,

but it is so true and honest.

And for everyone who's listening and watching,

I think the lesson for me is that your therapy could turn into something creative that when you shared that with me,

when we were speaking on the phone,

I was so in awe of that that therapy in one-to-one setting

or in whatever way of healing you believe in

if it turns into something you have to put together to

communicate to others that's the revelation like the revelation is in

that process not in the listening telling share uh speaking that's great

and that's a part of it but

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if you can go one step ahead truly i i feel this like urgency and desperation to communicate this specific piece,

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which is like, make art about your experiences.

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The neurosis of being a writer or anyone making anything is like,

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I don't have anything valuable to say.

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It's all been said before.

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This is so self-indulgent.

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This is so narcissistic.

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Who even wants to hear this?

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This is bad.

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I thought all of those thoughts probably most days as I wrote this

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but trust me like whatever you think people know about you

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or they know about your life or how you feel about it they don't

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and they need you to write poems write songs make pictures write plays

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and you don't need to be someone with the title of an artist to be able to do

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that you really don't

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and in fact I have to write on my mirror I

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have it written on my door I am an artist

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because I don't think anyone feels like they deserve

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that title I've been making films and writing

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and making art since I was nine years old

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and I don't feel like I deserve that title

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and I have to work at it all the time to

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feel like I have anything that's worthwhile saying I really understand the struggle I really really do

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but there is something about doing it and like having a physical thing

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because I think so many of these thoughts and feelings live in our heads

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and it's not a great place for them to live.

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They need to come out somewhere.

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And once you can put them somewhere, then you're free.

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Being understood or feeling like you're understood by the people around you has got to be the best feeling in the world.

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And I think it's what we're looking for when we do so many things,

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but often that's not the way to find it.

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And I just, God, yeah.

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Honestly, I want to go to every person in the street and be like,

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you need to write a one-person show about your life and then perform it for your friends and family.

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Or like, you need to paint the thing,

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write the song, just do it.

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Because it's kind of one of the best,

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most meaningful things I've done.

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It's trying to make sense of it all.

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And I love that you did it for your family.

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That's the part that proves to me

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when you say the message of make your art

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and you don't need to be a full-time actor or director or movie filmmaker.

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It's like you actually lived that part.

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And that's what I love about it the most is

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that you didn't make it for a stage or a movie or a documentary or whatever.

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And honestly, first I wrote it for myself.

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Honestly, I didn't think I had the guts to read this aloud to anyone.

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I thought it was just for me and maybe like two other people.

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And performing it for my...

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I didn't even invite my family until like two days before because I just didn't think I had the courage.

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Make art for people you love.

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Make beautiful things for people that you love,

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just for people that you love.

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That's one.

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I guess I had the extraordinary experience of making things for the world,

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basically, from such a young age.

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And I never made anything that I didn't feel like needed to be shared publicly.

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And I remember when I made Little Women,

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I mean, that's such an amazing thing about Louise May Alcott,

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is that really she wrote those stories for her sisters and so many people's journeys and paths start because,

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yeah, out of love they wrote them for just one person.

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There was a certain point I remember in my life where I was like,

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right, I'm done with university now and now I'm going to just focus full,

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what I should be doing is just focusing full time on being an actress and doing all of that.

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And I had completely missed actually that Emma,

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the academic, Emma the student,

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Emma the person that needs to constantly be learning things facilitated my ability to be a famous person

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and in Hollywood and that without her

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I actually couldn't do it I needed I need to have both

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and that when one gets stripped away and like even as I'm

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and I explore this in the play as well it's like

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even as I have returned to some form of normalcy ordinary life whatever

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that looks like to me now like I also can't kill

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her off completely you know my public person there's parts of me

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that like still does need those outlets and to do those things too

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and i'm figuring out what those are but i think that's what's

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so complicated about being human is is it's yes and not either

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or it's we need we need to be all of ourselves

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so that we can do the extraordinary things

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that we what we want to do maybe it's about not leaving parts of ourselves behind,

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finding a way to keep threading the tapestry and all of it

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