She found fame worldwide as ‘goody two-shoes’ Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series.
So it’s only natural that Emma Watson should be keen to sink her teeth into something a little more grown-up in her new work.
And it appears the 22-year-old has done just that, and steams up the screen as a sultry burlesque dancer in the just-released trailer for Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Emma plays Sam, a free spirit who becomes the love interest of awkward teen Charlie, played by Logan Lermanm, who played d’Artagnan in last year’s The Three Musketeers.
Her character is seen dancing enthusiastically at the homecoming dance, standing up in an open-topped car with the wind in her hair, and taking to what looks like a school stage in a raunchy burlesque get-up during the preview.
Her carefree persona is clearly a front however, as at one point she asks the film’s protagonist Charlie: ‘Why do I, and everyone I love, pick people who treat us like we’re nothing’.
