Emma Watson Chats Her Future & College Plans in Elle UK

Emma Watson is a bit more edgy on her August 2009 cover of Elle UK.

In the issue, on stands today, Emma talks about her future and decision to go to college. Check out this behind-the-scenes footage of her photo shoot and read some of her interview below!

“It’s going to sound dramatic, but I feel like it’s going to be my life over as I know it,” Emma reveals. “My whole life has been about and then all of that’s going to shut down and I don’t know what that will be like. I go to university in September – I’ll be doing bits and bobs at Christmas, but September feels like my cut off point, when I’ll really stop Harry Potter.”

Emma says it’s also important that she decides for herself who she wants to be. “I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them but it gets lost. Natalie Portman is an exception. I’m in awe of how she’s handled herself.”

When it comes to her future Emma wants to take a step back and figure it all out, not rushing into anything. “I need university to give me that break. People think because I’m going to university I’m never going to act again, but it’s actually me… I want to… figure out how I feel about everything first. Maybe I’ll keep acting, maybe I won’t. I just want to find something where I feel I have to do this. Maybe that’ll happen when I read a script. It felt like that with Hermione [Granger]. I want to feel like that again.”