Harry Potter star Emma Watson pulled out of a scene with Channing Tatum while shooting Seth Rogen’s 2013 disaster movie This Is the End, due to a last-minute change
Emma Watson refused to do a scene in the 2013 film This Is the End.
The 34-year-old actress is best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. She once revealed she had a crush on co-star Tom Felton in the early days of shooting the Hogwarts films.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s apocalyptic horror movie, which follows six Hollywood celebs who get stuck inside James Franco’s house in Los Angeles. It stars Seth, James, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel and Danny McBride and others with actors playing exaggerated versions of themselves.
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Emma, who appears as herself in the film, was asked to do a scene with Channing Tatum wearing a gimp mask and being walked on a leash by Danny McBride, who at this point in the movie has turned into a cannibal. However, she ended up declining it and the scene ended up airing without her in it.
Seth Rogen had revealed in a 2021 interview that she didn’t do the scene, but this caused a rumour that she had stormed off the set and there was bad blood – something he later insisted did not happen.
He had told GQ: “I mean, I don’t look back on that and think: ‘How dare she do that?’ You know? I think sometimes when you read something, when it comes to life, it doesn’t seem to be what you thought it was.
“But it was not some terrible ending to our relationship. She came back the next day to say goodbye. She helped promote the film.
“No hard feelings and I couldn’t be happier with how the film turned out in the end. She was probably right. It was probably funnier the way we ended up doing it.”
Following the ‘storm off’ rumours, Seth took to his Instagram to slam any suggestion such a thing took place, explaining the scene being shot was not what had been scripted, had “changed drastically” and was “not what she agreed to”.
He wrote: “I want to correct a story that has emerged from a recent interview I gave. It misrepresents what actually happened. Emma Watson did not “storm off the set” and it’s “sh***y that the perception is that she did.
“The scene was not what was originally scripted, it was getting improvised, changed drastically and was not what she agreed to. The narrative that she was in some way uncool or unprofessional is complete bullsh*t. I for sure should have communicated better and because I didn’t, she was put in an uncomfortable position.”
Rogen explained that he and her discussed the scene on set on the night the scene was being shot and agreed to her pulling out of the scene. He said he was pleased Emma voiced her feelings to him.
He added: “It was overall a sh*tty situation and it must have been hard for her to say something and I’m very happy and impressed that she did. I was thrilled for the opportunity to work with her and would be thrilled to get that opportunity again. I am very sorry and disappointed it happened, and I wish I had done more to prevent it.”
He even admitted Emma was “probably right” to step out of the scene. He had told GQ in the original interview: “It was probably funnier the way we ended up doing it.”
Emma admitted the film didn’t always match her sense of humour but she wanted to do it for the chance to work with the best comic actors around. She said: “When I got the script I was like ‘okay, this is not my normal type of thing, not really always my sense of humour’, but like how could I miss out on a chance to work with the most impressive lineup of the best comedians in the world right now?”
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