\nBy Eye-catching: Emma Watson has been noticed by Hollywood executives<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Emma Watson has graduated from Hogwarts in style. She was at every party going over the Bafta weekend. And she certainly caught the eye of Hollywood executives and directors, many of whom would like to work with her. At the W, early Monday morning, Emma was perched on a banquette between Darren Aronofsky and Mark Ruffalo and his wife Sunrise.<\/p>\n Certainly, Aronofsky listened intently to what she had to say, and perhaps he\u2019ll toughen her up in a year or two in a movie about a ballet-loving female wrestler (OK, for you slow ones at the back, he made The Wrestler and Black Swan).<\/p>\n The 20-year-old was still chatting at 4.15am as organisers from the Weinstein studio and Momentum Films were desperate to go home.<\/p>\n The actress, who has played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films for half of her life \u2014 the last of which, The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, is released in July \u2014 has star quality in spades. She has a grace and style that\u2019s rare.<\/p>\n Soon she will go before the cameras to film The Perks Of Being A Wallflower opposite Logan Lerman, while autumn will see the release of Simon Curtis\u2019s film My Week With Marilyn, in which she has a small role opposite Michelle Williams and Eddie Redmayne.<\/p>\n Variety show: Tom Hiddleston will play an exciting range of characters in a year that will see him fill cinema screens<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It’s about to become the year of Tom Hiddleston.<\/p>\n The Cambridge and Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art\u00a0 graduate has four major movies out this year, including Steven Spielberg\u2019s version of War Horse, Terence Davies\u2019s The Deep Blue Sea, Kenneth Branagh\u2019s Thor and Woody Allen\u2019s Midnight In Paris, which will open the Cannes Film Festival in May.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve heard the odd whisper about War Horse having a special screening in Cannes, but at present that\u2019s all they are \u2014 whispers.<\/p>\n \u2018Just to have one of the jobs would have been enough, but to have them all crammed into 12 months has been amazing,\u2019 Hiddleston told me.<\/p>\n All the roles are totally\u00a0 different. In Deep Blue Sea, based on Terence Rattigan\u2019s stage drama, he plays Freddie Page, a troubled former RAF World War II pilot who introduces the wife of a High Court judge (played by Rachel Weisz) to the kind of physical love she\u2019s not been getting from her husband.<\/p>\n When I ask Tom if Hester (Rachel\u2019s character) is just using him as a sex object, he laughs: \u2018I think Freddie\u2019s more than just good in bed. I hope that she sees more in him than that.<\/p>\n \u2018Freddie is somebody who\u2019s really alive in every respect: in his sexuality, in his joy, in his anger,\u2019 the actor told me.<\/p>\n \u2018So, I hope she goes for his vitality.\u2019 <\/p>\n But Freddie\u2019s in denial about the psychological harm he\u00a0 suffered during the war. <\/p>\n \u2018He doesn\u2019t want drama in his life, but there\u2019s a lot of drama with Hester \u2014 she knows how to love, and he doesn\u2019t. He\u2019s not prepared to look at Hester\u2019s pain because in Hester\u2019s pain, he sees his own.\u2019 <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Davies shot the film on\u00a0 locations around London several weeks ago, but some friends who have seen a rough assemblage of footage tell me it\u2019s stunning, and the three leads (Tom, Rachel and Simon Russell Beale) are heartbreaking to watch.<\/p>\n Tom\u2019s role in the superhero saga Thor, meanwhile, is about as far from Freddie as it\u2019s\u00a0 possible to get. Loki starts off as a younger brother to Thor \u2018and travels all the way to out-and-out villain\u2019. <\/p>\n \u2018Rivalry and jealousy come to the surface and he goes through the motions of becoming like Iago,\u2019 Tom explained.<\/p>\n He also spent three months on War Horse playing Captain Nicholls, the officer who first purchases Joey, the farm horse, and takes him as his mount to the fields of battle.<\/p>\n \u2018I\u2019d say 90 per cent of my\u00a0 work in War Horse is on a horse,\u2019 he mused. \u2018It\u2019s almost not like conventional acting at all, because you\u2019re either walking or trotting or cantering or charging.\u2019<\/p>\n He told me that one of his earliest memories as a young boy was watching Harrison Ford in Raiders Of The\u00a0 Lost Ark. \u2018I thought, \u201cI want to do that!\u201d \u2014 ride horses, be a hero and have Steven\u00a0 Spielberg\u2019s cameras pointing at me.\u2019 <\/p>\n He and fellow actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Patrick Kennedy spent six weeks riding before the\u00a0 cameras rolled. \u2018I could ride a bit, but I had to get really good,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n Tom was born in London, although his dad\u2019s from the west of Glasgow, so he\u2019s looking forward to playing a Scot one day.<\/p>\n He mentioned that to Peter Mullan, the Scottish director-actor who\u2019s a co-star in War Horse. \u2018He went: \u201cOh my god, man! You should not have told me that. I\u2019ll have to put you in my next movie.\u201d\u2009\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Seidler, who wrote The King\u2019s Speech, is embarking on another cinematic adventure, this time about Lady Hester Stanhope, who was called the \u2018Queen of the East\u2019 in the mid-19th century. She was an eccentric explorer or, as Seidler told me, \u2018a female Lawrence of Arabia\u2019. <\/p>\n The film is being developed by Gareth Unwin, whose Bedlam Productions was one of The King\u2019s Speech backers, and Richard Price, the impresario who funded initial development not only of The King\u2019s Speech but the Mamma Mia! stage musical when producer Judy Craymer needed early funds.<\/p>\n His instinct is astute and he has made a tidy amount of Money Money Money in the process.<\/p>\n The most expensive star Cameron Mackintosh has ever hired (we\u2019re talking more than he paid Michael Crawford to play the Phantom) flew into London first-class from Melbourne yesterday. <\/p>\n Her name is Betty Blue Eyes and she\u2019s the star (though Sarah Lancashire and Reece Shearsmith may have something to say about that) of Mackintosh\u2019s new show. Clean-living Betty is a gorgeous pig, but she\u2019s not being raised for bacon. <\/p>\n She\u2019s an animatronic, created by the Creature Technology Company for the Anthony Drewe-George Stiles musical based\u00a0 on Alan Bennett\u2019s film A Private Function. <\/p>\n It\u2019s\u00a0 about a town\u2019s desire to put on an illegal roast during the post-war nuptials of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The Prince will attend a special preview performance to raise funds for the Colonel\u2019s Fund Grenadier Guards. Betty will be\u00a0 in the line-up.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
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