Shadowing Practice: Emma Watson On Rupert Grint's Ice Cream Truck | Late Night with Conan O’Brien - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Thank you for being here.
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Thank you for being here.
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Thank you for having me.
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I want to ask you,
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we had Daniel Radcliffe here last night and I chatted with him briefly and I asked him the same question,
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but I want to ask you,
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cause it's such an unusual situation.
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It's the fifth Harry Potter film.
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And you look back now,
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how old were you when you did the first one?
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I auditioned when I was nine and I started filming when I was 10, 11.
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Is it strange for you because these movies are ubiquitous.
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You see them on television all the time.
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And do you ever come across yourself in that first film and how does that feel?
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Quite horrible, to be honest.
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It's really, I mean, I guess it's just, yeah, very, very strange.
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And especially like in this one,
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there's loads of flashbacks to the first film.
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Right.
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So I get to see a lot of that.
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I guess just, I just used to have such chubby cheeks
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and such like a high voice and the big hair and yeah.
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You're describing me perfectly actually.
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But that's how I think,
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People don't generally like to look at themselves at that age.
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I mean, everyone else thinks that you're a really cute kid in those films,
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but that's not how you perceive it, right?
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I mean, it's kind of hard to explain how that feels,
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but I guess, I don't know if you hear your voice on,
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if you ever hear your voice taped or on an aunt's film machine and you're like,
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oh, it's horrible.
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People can't listen.
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It's exactly like that, but like 20 times worse.
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Yeah.
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Although your voice is very beautiful.
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Mine is very grating.
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I hear mine sometimes, I hear a TV set and I'm like,
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hello folks, we're back, we're gonna be right to.
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And I'm like, someone kill that guy.
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Now there are lots of,
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of course, there's so much merchandising also associated with this movie.
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There are lots of Harry Potter products.
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What's the strangest thing that you've seen your face, you know, associated with?
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What's the strangest product?
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God, it's really hard.
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There is so much Harry Potter merchandise.
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Yeah.
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I was in Waitrose the other day and I came across Hermione's Magic Muffins,
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which I was like, wow, that's a new one.
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What is it?
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Is it a, it's a muffin mix?
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Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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It's a muffin mix.
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You don't have to buy any of the ingredients.
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It's all in there you kind of get these little stickers with my head on them
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and you kind of put them on.
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Right, right.
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Yeah.
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And it's strange because are you a good,
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do you make muffins yourself?
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Are you a, you know, a good cook?
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I'm an awful cook.
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Yeah.
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I'll be completely honest.
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No, I would never ever do that.
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That would be seriously strange.
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Yeah.
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So it's, it must be odd.
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You almost feel like your face is on it.
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Like I'm responsible for those muffins tasting delicious.
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Yes, kind of, I guess.
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Yeah, kind of.
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What about, I know there are Harry Potter video games.
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Have you played or any of your friends or family played the video games?
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Yeah, at the press Dunket,
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they had like a room with the game that's been released
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so people could kind of go in and try it and stuff.
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And my brother obviously was brought to tears listening to me talk about Harry Potter.
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Went in and was trying the game out and he came back and I was like,
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oh, did you have a good morning?
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He was like, yeah, yeah.
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I've been throwing benches at you like for hours.
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That's nice to know.
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So your brother can go into a room and just hurl benches at you.
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But no one gets hurt.
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It's perfect.
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Yeah, that's very nice.
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Excellent, yeah.
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I know there were action figures as well.
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Does your brother, any of your siblings ever,
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you know, get the action figure?
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That would be very strange.
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That would be seriously creepy.
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I don't think I would let them have it.
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I think that's so like,
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no, that would be really weird.
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Really weird.
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It's something I would do.
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I understand that you made a,
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you and the cast made a very short Harry Potter film,
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especially for the Queen's 80th.
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80th birthday, yeah.
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80th birthday, and then you all met her.
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Did you have to take etiquette lessons and learn how to meet the queen?
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I think there's a lot of rules, right?
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Well, this is the funny thing.
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By the time I've had all the sort of etiquette of how I was meant to meet her,
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and I could only say this and I couldn't say that,
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to be honest, I was kind of glad in the end that I didn't actually meet her in the end.
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Right.
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Because apparently, you know, you can only dress her as your majesty,
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and you can't speak to her unless she speaks to you,
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and there's kind of this little bow you have to do,
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and all of this stuff that I was like, Okay, right, okay.
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And I was so nervous about it.
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I was kind of like, actually, you know what?
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I'll just look at her or just sit behind her.
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That's good enough for me, you know?
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Right, because you're so afraid of just,
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am I going to do this the wrong way?
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If I'm going to make a mistake?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Did she seem like a nice person?
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Did you get a sense of her as a person or not really?
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I mean, you were in a room with her,
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but you didn't actually get to meet her.
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To be honest, she, I mean,
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I hope she enjoyed the show that we put together.
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She kind of, she didn't really,
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not that much facial expression going on.
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She was quite kind of like this.
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So I was like, is she enjoying it?
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She is the queen.
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Oh my God.
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She's not gonna, you know, raise the roof.
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No, I just wanna start like, woo, yeah.
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Ow, churn the butter.
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High fives for you and the whole cast.
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Yeah, I know.
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So I was like, yeah,
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I didn't really know, but I'm sure she,
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I hope she enjoyed it.
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You know, I know a lot of people in America,
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you have a beautiful voice,
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as I said, and the English accent is so,
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I mean, to many Americans it sounds so distinguished.
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Oh no, it's awful.
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When I come to America,
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I always feel really, I hate my English accent because it sounds so kind of like,
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I don't know, pretentious?
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I don't know if that's the word,
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it sounds really kind of, I don't know.
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So by the end of my stay here,
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I kind of find that my English is kind of edging towards American English.
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No, what's pretentious is when people affect an English accent.
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Yours is real.
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you were allowed to have one.
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There were people like Madonna who like two years ago started being like, oh, hello.
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Oh, I'm a British woman.
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I'm a British woman.
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I'm a British woman.
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I'm a British woman.
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I'm a British woman.
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I'm a British woman.
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Aren't you from Long Island or something?
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What about, do you think that when you hear Americans,
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because there are American actors who in movies try and do a British accent.
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And to us maybe it sounds all right,
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but how does it sound to someone who's- I can always tell.
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Yeah.
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You can always tell, pretty much.
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I mean, yeah, you can pretty much tell that.
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It's next to impossible for an American to do it correctly.
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Yeah, well, I guess, I don't know how well we pull off American accents though.
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So, you know.
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Hugh Laurie in, you know.
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Actually, yes.
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Hugh Laurie in house.
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I have to say, I've watched that a couple of times.
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Amazing.
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I cannot believe that he's not from America.
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And he is like quintessentially British.
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Yes.
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He's very, you know, very, very British.
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I shot something with him for the Emmys about a year ago and he was doing the American accent the whole time.
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And then I saw him later on
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and he was talking in the British accent and I really thought this man is ill.
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He's schizophrenic.
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He's so scary talented.
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No, very talented.
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But you know, when Americans go over and try and do it a lot of times,
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it sounds like, you know, Mary Poppins kind of.
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Hello, governor.
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Yes, that's exactly it.
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How you doing, you know?
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Oh, you're a chimney sweeper.
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How I would do it.
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Now, of course you and Daniel and Rupert,
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You're the three main, you know,
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characters that we've been following throughout these different films.
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Have the three of you,
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and I don't want it to be a crass question,
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but you've, you know, you've been making some money over the years.
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Have any of you gone a little mad and bought yourself something crazy or,
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you know, just to treat yourself?
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I can't compete with this.
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Rupert bought an ice cream truck.
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I know.
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I'm not even...
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He bought an ice cream truck?
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I can never compete with Rupert.
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That is every kid's fantasy.
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I know, literally.
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He said to me.
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No one really does that.
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He was like, he says to me quite seriously,
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he said, if I hadn't got this,
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you know, if I hadn't become an actor,
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you know, I seriously would have considered being an ice cream man.
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I was like, okay, cool.
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Well, so he's kind of like fulfilled both dreams, you know?
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That's so funny and so sweet too at the same time.
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And as well, it's not just like he's bought the truck to kind of drive around kind of a show.
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It actually has all of the ice cream in it,
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all of like the little chocolate drops and everything.
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Well, I hope it had ice cream in it, yeah.
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Well, yeah.
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We're gonna be like, cool ice cream, what's in there?
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Mm, medical books.
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Yeah, no. We have a clip here from the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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And I wanna make sure we show this.
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What do we need to do or know to appreciate this clip?
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You have to see the last film and you have to know that Ron was a complete idiot,
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to be fair.
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He didn't invite her to the ball
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and then he made a really big deal about her going with someone else
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and he completely ruined her evening and she ended up crying up on the steps
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and then he never apologized and basically was just, you know.
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So in this one, she kind of kicks his ass.
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She really does.
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She really like gets her own back and it's quite kind of a classic girl power moment.
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Yeah, women everywhere will appreciate this.
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Let's take a look at this moment from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
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Go easy.
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Thanks, Florence.
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Come on, Ron.
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Come on, Ron.
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Come on, Ron.
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Come on, Ron.
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Come on, Ron.
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One second.
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You're on.
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Thank you.
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Shut up.
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I let her do that.
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It's a good man, isn't it?
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It's completely intentional.
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That's how I went home to that moment.
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That was on purpose.
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I did it on purpose.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is in theaters right now.
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Really a pleasure chatting with you.
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Yeah, we hope to see you soon.
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Emma Watson, everybody.
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Patton Oslo coming up.
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Stick around, we'll be right back.
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Practicing speaking using the video "Emma Watson On Rupert Grint's Ice Cream Truck" provides a unique opportunity to engage with the English language in a fun and relatable context. Emma Watson’s conversational tone and natural expressions make it easy for learners to pick up on the nuances of everyday dialogue. By shadowing her speech, you can improve your fluency and pronunciation while enjoying the behind-the-scenes stories of one of the most iconic films. This context enriches your vocabulary and colloquial expressions, making your communication sound more authentic and less formal.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
In the video, several key grammatical structures and expressions illustrate the casual yet engaging style of English conversation:
- Past Simple Tense: Emma reflects on her experience by using the past simple tense: "I auditioned when I was nine." This structure is essential for narrating past events.
- Comparative Forms: She uses comparisons to express feelings: "It’s quite horrible, to be honest." This can help learners understand how to contrast their emotions with those of others.
- Informal Questions: The dialogue includes informal queries such as, "What’s the strangest product?" This structure is useful for learners to form casual questions in conversations.
- Descriptive Language: Emma uses descriptors like "chubby cheeks" and "big hair," which add vivid imagery to her stories. This can inspire learners to use more expressive language in their storytelling.
Common Pronunciation Traps
Engaging with this video also presents certain pronunciation challenges that learners should be aware of:
- Colloquial Contractions: Words like "you’re" and "it’s" may come quickly in conversation, making it hard to catch each sound. Practice shadowing to enhance comprehension.
- Vowel Sounds: Emma's pronunciation of words like "horrible" and "strange" can demonstrate different vowel sounds that may vary from learner’s native pronunciation.
- Intonation Patterns: Pay attention to Emma’s intonation, especially when expressing surprise or disbelief, which can vary in different English accents. Repeating these patterns is crucial in the shadowing technique.
Utilize a shadowing app or similar resources to repeatedly practice these structures, ensuring that you are not just listening but actively speaking along with the video. This way, you can master shadow speech and enhance your overall English fluency.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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