>Jo: To be honest, you and Rupert and Emma are all too good looking, frankly. You are. You know, the characters were geeky, and you...
>Dan: Did you know that was going to happen? Did you sort of think they might...?
>Jo: I'm not an idiot. I did, particularly when I... Do you know what, it was really lucky I spoke to Emma first on the phone before I met her. Because I fell absolutely in love with her. She said to me: "I've only ever acted in school drama plays and oh my God I'm so nervous I can't believe I got the part" and then she spoke for, like, 60 seconds at least without drawing breath and I just said "Emma, you're perfect." And then when I met her and she was this very beautiful - which she still is, of course - beautiful girl, I just kind of had to go "Oh, okay." It's film, you know, deal with it. I'm going to still see my gawky, geeky, ugly duckling Hermione in my mind.
>Dan: Do you think that, in a way, we shot ourselves in the foot with things like that? Emma's reveal in the fourth film, where she comes down the stairs and there is supposed to have been this transformation...
>Jo: Well, exactly.
>Dan: Because we're all looking and going "well she's already a beautiful girl."
>Jo: Yeah, big deal. Now she's a beautiful girl in a beautiful dress.
>Dan: Yes.
>Jo: And putting her in fairisle sweaters in the first film didn't make her ugly.
>Dan: laughs
>Jo: Not that Hermione in the books is ever "ugly", but it was quite a big deal for me that I had written a strong female character who was primarily about brain, and that she chose to become a little more groomed and glamorous, as us geeks do at a certain point in our lives. But I accepted it. Emma's a great actress and I loved her as a person. And I felt that there were so many connections between her and Hermione that, did it matter that she was beautiful? Come on.
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