Watson chops hair for ‘Tattoo’ role?
Harry Potter star Emma Watson may have cut off all her hair for a new role.
OK! Magazine is reporting Watson went with the new pixie-style crop in the hopes of snagging the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
“Cut my hair off a few days ago … Feels incredible. I love it. I’ve wanted to do this for years and years; it’s the most liberating thing ever. Hope you like,” Watson said on her Facebook page, posting a photo for fans on Aug. 5.
But on Tuesday, the magazine quoted a source that says she cut her hair for an audition with the movie’s director, David Fincher. The unnamed source says Watson “cut her hair to look the part. The character of Lisbeth is a misfit with spikey hair.”
If Watson is auditioning for the role, it would be a drastic change from her role in the Harry Potter files. Instead of being an innocent teen learning magic, she would play a troubled 24-year-old woman with Asperger’s syndrome who is an expert computer hacker. It would also mean Watson would need to take part in sex scenes.
The book, written by the late Stieg Larsson, has already been turned into a movie, but Fincher is set to direct the full trilogy of the novels. The male lead of Mikael Blomkvist will be played by Daniel Craig.
Also rumoured to be up for the role of Salander are Carey Mulligan, Canada’s Ellen Page, Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.
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