Emma Watson fires back at ‘hypocrisy’ claims as she posts old Beyoncé interview

The actress has defended herself after she said she was 'conflicted' about the pop star's sexualised videos 
Hitting back: Emma Watson has defended herself against hypocrisy claims
Dave Benett
Jennifer Ruby7 March 2017
The Weekender

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Emma Watson has fired back at critics who dubbed her a ‘hypocrite’ for questioning Beyoncé’s sexualised music videos ahead of her own revealing shoot for Vanity Fair.

The Beauty and the Beast actress has now posted the full transcript of her 2014 interview for Wonderland magazine, in which she discusses her ‘conflict’ over the pop star’s depiction in her videos.

In the new tweet, the 26-year-old highlights the part of the interview in which she is speaking, in a bid to clarify that she was not being hypocritical when she said that her ‘showing her t***’ had nothing to do with feminism.

“This is the part of my 2014 interview with Tavi where we talked about Beyoncé. My words are in bold,” Watson tweeted on Tuesday morning.

The highlighted part reads: “I’m quite nervous to bring it up because I still haven’t really formulated my own ideas about it but [both laugh] Beyoncé’s new album. I don’t know whether you have spoken to anyone about it, but my friend and I sat and we watched all the videos back-to-back and I was really conflicted.

“I so admire her confidence to put her music out in that way, in amidst all these very sensationalist performances, I was so psyched about that.

“On the one hand she is putting herself in a category of a feminist, this very strong woman - and she had that beautiful speech by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in one of her songs – but then the camera, it felt very male, such a male voyeuristic experience of her and I just wondered if you had thought about that?”

Watson, who is a vocal feminist and supporter of women’s rights, was forced to defend herself when critics claimed her recent fashion shoot went against what she stood for.

“Feminism is about giving women choice, feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women,” she told the BBC.

"It's about freedom, it's about liberation, it's about equality.

"I really don't know what my t*** have to do with it."

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