Emma Watson Hopes Her American Accent Isn't 'Terrible'

'Harry Potter' star is 'hopeful' she can pull off the accent for 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower.'
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz

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What does Emma Watson sound like when she says "Olive Garden" as if she lives just down the road from one in Charlotte, North Carolina? That's one of the questions we set out to answer with "American Talk," a little video we shot with the cast of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" last December that had the stars attempting to pop off phrases like they were born and raised in the good ol' U.S. of A.

What started off as a funny bit quickly turned into a viral sensation, nabbing more than 2.2 million views. Watson and her cohorts might have felt a bit insecure about their accents — which they had exactly zero time to practice — but the public loved the whole thing. Since then, however, Watson has gone to work on her American accent for a role in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," an adaptation of the controversial novel about teenage life and sexuality.

When we caught up with Watson at the MTV Movie Awards recently, where she was taking a break from the "Wallflower" production, we reminded the Brit actress about her time shooting "American Talk" and asked if the accent was causing her any trouble on set. "I was really nervous!" she said of the MTV bit. "I think it sounded terrible."

Hardly. But she's since gained a facility for an American accent while shooting in western Pennsylvania. "It's good. Having been out in Pittsburgh for four weeks — it's OK," she said. "It's good. I'm hopeful about it."

Not that she was interested in giving us a sample while hanging at the Movie Awards afterparty outside the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. "No, please don't do that! No! No, no, no, no — that's so unfair!" she cried. "Wait and see the movie."

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