Emma Watson On Rupert Grint's Ice Cream Truck | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. I want to ask you, we had Daniel Radcliffe here last night and I chatted with him briefly and I asked him the same question but I want to ask you because it's such an unusual situation. It's the fifth Harry Potter film and you look back now, how old were you when you did the first one? I auditioned when I was nine and I started filming when I was 10, 11. Is it strange for you because these movies are ubiquitous, you see them on television all the time and do you ever come across yourself in that first film and how does that feel? Quite horrible, to be honest. I mean, I guess it's just very, very strange and especially like in this one, there's loads of flashbacks to the first film. So I get to see a lot of that. I guess I just seem to have such chubby cheeks and a high voice and a big hair. You're describing me perfectly actually. But that's how I think people don't generally like to look at themselves at that age. I mean, everyone else thinks that you're a really cute kid in those films but that's not how you perceive it, right? I mean, it's kind of hard to explain how that feels but I guess like, I don't know if you hear your voice on, if you ever hear your voice taped on an answering machine, you're like, oh, it's horrible, people can't listen. It's exactly that but like 20 times worse. Yeah, although your voice is very beautiful, mine is very grating. I hear mine sometimes, I hear a TV set and I'm like, Now there are lots of, of course, there's so much merchandising also associated with this movie. There are lots of Harry Potter products. What's the strangest thing that you've seen your face, you know, associated with? What's the strangest product? It's really hard. There's so much Harry Potter merchandise. I was in Waitrose the other day and I came across Hermione's Magic Muffins, which I was like, wow, that's a new one. What is it? Is it a muffin mix? Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's a muffin mix. You don't have to buy any of the ingredients. It's all in there and you kind of get these little stickers with my head on them and you kind of put them on. Right, right. Yeah. And it's strange because are you, do you make muffins yourself? Are you, you know, a good cook? I'm an awful cook, I'll be completely honest. No, I would never ever do that. That would be seriously strange. Yeah, so it must be odd. You almost feel like your face is on it. Like I'm responsible for those muffins tasting delicious. Yes, kind of, I guess. Yeah, kind of. What about, I know there are Harry Potter video games. Have you played or any of your friends or family played the video games? Yeah, at the press junket, they had like a room with a game that's been released and people kind of go in and try it and stuff. And my brother obviously was bored to tears listening to me talk about Harry Potter. Went in and was trying the game out and he came back and I was like, oh, did you have a good morning? He was like, yeah, yeah. I've been throwing benches at you like for hours. That's nice to know. So your brother can go into a room and just hurl benches at you, but no one gets hurt. It's perfect. Yeah, that's very nice. Excellent, yeah. I know there were action figures as well. Does your brother or any of your siblings ever, you know, get the action figure? That would be very strange. That would be seriously creepy. I don't think I would let them have it. I think that's so like, no, that would be really weird. Really weird. That's something I would do. I understand that you and the cast made a very short Harry Potter film, especially for the Queen's 80th birthday. And then before then, and then you all met her, did you have to take etiquette lessons and learn how to meet the Queen? I would think there's a lot of rules, right? Well, this is the funny thing. By the time I've had all the sort of etiquette of how I was meant to meet her, and I could only say this and I couldn't say that. To be honest, I was kind of glad in the end that I didn't actually meet her in the end. Right. Like apparently, you know, you can only address her as your majesty and you can't speak to her unless she speaks to you. And that's kind of this little bow you have to do and all of this stuff that I was like, okay, right, okay. And I was so nervous about it. I was kind of like, actually, you know what? I'll just look at her or just sit behind her. That's good enough for me, you know? Right, because you're so afraid of just, am I going to do this the wrong way? Am I going to make a mistake? Yeah. Did she seem like a nice person? Did you get a sense of her as a person or not really? I mean, you were in a room with her, but you didn't actually get to meet her. To be honest, she, I mean, I hope she enjoyed the show that we put together. She kind of, she didn't really, not that much facial expression behind her. She was quite kind of like this. I was like, is she enjoying it? She is the Queen. She's not going to, you know, raise the roof. No. Oh, churn the butter. High fives for you and the whole cast. Yeah, I know. So I was like, yeah, I didn't really know, but I'm sure she, I hope she enjoyed it. You know, I know a lot of people in America, you have a beautiful voice, as I said, and the English accent is so, I mean, to many Americans, it sounds, it sounds so distinguished and, you know. Oh no, it's awful. When I come to America, I always feel really, I hate my English accent because it sounds so kind of like, I don't know, it's pretentious. I don't know if that's the word. It sounds really kind of, I don't know. So by the end of my stay here, I kind of find that my English is kind of edging towards American English. What's pretentious is when people affect an English accent. Yours is real. You're allowed to have one. There are people like Madonna, who like two years ago started to be like, oh, hello. Aren't you from Long Island or something? What about, do you think that when you hear Americans, because there are American actors who, in movies, try and do a British accent. And to us, maybe it sounds all right, but how does it sound to someone who's- I can always tell. You can always tell, pretty much. I mean, yeah, you can pretty much tell. It's next to impossible for an American to do it correctly. Yeah, well, I guess, I don't know how well we pull off American accents though, so, you know. Hugh Laurie in, you know. Actually, yes, I have to say, I've watched that a couple of times. Amazing. I cannot believe that he's not from America. And he is, like, quintessentially British. Yes. Very, you know, very, very British. I shot something with him for the Emmys about a year ago, and he was doing the American accent the whole time. And then I saw him later on, and he was talking in the British accent, and I really thought, this man is ill. He's schizophrenic. He's so scary talented. No, very talented. But, you know, when Americans go over and try and do it, a lot of times, it sounds like, you know, you know, Mary Poppins, kind of. Hello, governor. Yes, that's exactly it. How you doing, you know? I'm your chimney, sweet boy. How I would do it. Now, of course, you and Daniel and Rupert, you're the three main, you know, characters that we've been following throughout these different films. Have the three of you, and I don't want it to be a crass question, but you've, you know, you've been making some money over the years. Have any of you gone a little money, a little mad and bought yourself something crazy, or, you know, just to treat yourself? I can't compete with this. Rupert bought an ice cream truck. He bought an ice cream truck? That is every kid's fantasy. I know, literally. No one really does that. He was like, he said to me quite seriously, he said, if I hadn't got this, you know, if I hadn't become an actor, you know, I seriously would consider being an ice cream man. I was like, okay, cool. Well, so he's kind of like fulfilled those dreams, you know? That's so funny and so sweet too at the same time. And as well, it's not just like he's bought the truck to kind of drive around kind of a show. It actually has all of the ice cream in it, all of like the little chocolate drops and everything. Well, I hope it had ice cream in it, yeah. Well, yeah. Maybe like cool ice cream truck, what's in there? Medical books. Yeah, no. We have a, we have a clip here from the film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. And I want to make sure we show this. What do we need to do to, or know to appreciate this clip? You have to see the last film and you have to know that Ron was a complete idiot, to be fair. He didn't invite her to the ball and then he made a really big deal about her going with someone else and he completely ruined her evening and she ended up crying up on the steps and then he never apologized and basically just, you know. So in this one, she kind of kicks his ass. She really does. She really like gets her own back and it's quite kind of a classic girl power moment. Yeah, women everywhere will appreciate this. Let's take a look at this moment from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I'll go easy. Thanks, Ron. Come on, Ron. One second, you're on. I let her do that. It's good manners, isn't it? It's completely intentional. That's how I would handle that moment. That was on purpose. I did it on purpose. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is in theaters right now. Really a pleasure chatting with you. Yeah, we hope to see you soon. Emma Watson, everybody. Patton Oswalt coming up. Stick around, we'll be right back.