“You go through these working six days a week, 14 to 16 hour days–and then you’re just dropped off at the end of it, and maybe you’ll have a two or three month gap, and then there’s just nothing.”
The podcast is one of the first long-form interviews Watson has done in about 5 years, where she expressed the personal toll of being one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. She says it got to the point where “sensory overload” that comes with being famous made it hard to carry out simple everyday activities.
“Trying to have a normal conversation with anyone is basically impossible because you feel like an insane person,” she said. “These are not environments in which you really like to have a nice chat with someone.”
When obtaining her creative writing masters, she said that “writing, making art has been the best therapy” for reshaping her life after acting.
“I think fame makes you feel like you can’t do things for yourself in a way that can really disempower you and remove your confidence and autonomy as a human being that’s really disabling,” Watson said.
“I’ve just got to this place where if it costs me any part of my peace, it’s just too expensive, ” she added.