The boys at Brown must be crying onto their laptops today: Emma Watson is putting University on hold to focus on movie projects. “I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything but recently I’ve had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments has become a little impossible,” she said on her website. “I’ve decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on Harry Potter (the last one comes out this summer) and to focus on my other professional and acting projects. I will still be working towards my degree… it’s just going to take me a semester or two longer than I thought.”
Watson hasn’t done much film outside of the Potter films—just a BBC original movie Ballet Shoes, voice work for The Tale Of Despereaux, and a small role in Kenneth Branagh‘s upcoming My Dinner With Marilyn. Her decision to put school, which she just began in Fall ’09, on hold, suggests she’s serious about maintaining a career after the franchise is finished. We’ve already heard Watson will film an adaptation of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, but does she have more roles in store before she heads back to Brown…assuming she actually returns?
