Emma Watson Won't Quit Acting for Studies

About a month or so ago, it was reported that Emma Watson was going to bid adieu to her acting career to focus on her studies. There would be nothing new about that; I can think of several actresses who put their educations over film roles, although I wonder why it seems to be more actresses than actors. Regardless, considering how much Watson has talked about school in the past, it wasn't surprising.

But now the 19-year-old is quashing those rumors. The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince star will be attending Columbia beginning this fall, but she tells Contact Music she has no plans to walk away from acting.

“There's been a lot of confusion in the media that university is mutually exclusive, that I can't act as well as study at the same time," she says. "I seem to have managed it okay up to this point, so that's what I hope to continue to do.”

It's refreshing to see that all three Potter stars, who have been in the public eye constantly since they were around ten, have their heads on straight. You never know with child stars, but for all three of them to manage as well as they have is a testament to the people around them, personally and professionally.It doesn't appear that their careers are controlled by overbearing parents and there hasn't been a single arrest yet, and you sure can't say that about some American teen stars.