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Emma Watson has a thing for Mexican directors!

by Mack Chico on 07.17.2009

Emma Watson divulges her love for Mexican film directors.

Surfing through the web, I found this great interview of Emma Watson, who play Hermione in the Harry Potter franchise of films, done by Interview Magazine. In it she delves into her fascination with Mexican directors and her particular intrigue with Alfonso Cuarón who directed her in Harry Potter 3.

Below is the excerpt obtained from 'Interview' about that conversation:

BLASBERG: Do you prefer working with an English team? When I visited you on the Harry Potter set, the majority of people were Englishmen.

WATSON: Well, I shouldn’t say I have a favorite director—that wouldn’t be very diplomatic. But one of the people I enjoyed working with most was Alfonso Cuarón [who directed Watson in the third Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisonerof Azkaban (2004)]. I have a real thing forMexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

BLASBERG: Is that why you were in Mexico earlier this year?

WATSON: I went because I wanted to travel and I had heard such great things about the country.I didn’t get to see any of those guys.

BLASBERG: Of course not. A young girl in Mexico means spring break! Cancún, baby! Tequila shots at Señor Frogs!

WATSON: That was the weirdest place ever. In Cancún, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie. I was only there for two days—thankfully my friends and I were more interested in traveling around other parts of the country. But I seriously thought it was only like that in movies.

BLASBERG: When I was in high school, we went to Mexico for spring break, and it was surreal. Like, school nerds entering wet-T-shirt contests, and high-school jocks screwing the secretly slutty goth theater girls.

WATSON: It’s so exciting.

BLASBERG: This is what you missed while you were doing Harry Potter, Emma.

WATSON: I know. I feel so deprived. But Cancún was certainly not my favorite. We went to Ixtapa, where the ruins are. It was a beautiful, chilled-out part of the country. We went to Mexico City, which was amazing, but quite dangerous. We were happy to get out of there in the end. And we went to Cuba—I would tell everyone to go to Cuba now, because in 10 years it will be completely different.