'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson has revealed that a university professor advised her to quit acting.
The 23-year-old actress said that she was affected by questions in the media about whether she could sustain a movie career after the successful 'Harry Potter' franchise in which she played Hermione Granger, reported Entertainment Weekly.
"For a while I kind of bought into the hype of, 'Will they ever be able to play anything else?'," Watson said.
"It gave me a sense of paralysis and stage fright for a while. And then a professor told me that they didn't think I should act, either. So I was really grappling with it and wasn't feeling good about it.
"And then, I don't know... It got so bad and people had put me in a box so much that it started pissing me off. I suddenly wanted to prove them wrong. It gave me fuel, in a way. I'm not sure why that shift happened," she said.
Watson said that she was "unsure" about continuing to act post-Potter until she read the script for 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'.
"Falling in love with that and then having such a great experience on that movie kind of sealed the deal for me. I stopped intellectualising it, and it became much more instinctual," Watson said.
"I just got the bug and got very driven all of a sudden, which I really wasn't before. But I'm so happy. It's all felt very new to me, really," she added.
