RUPERT SAY ON KISSING EMMA WATSON

London, England (BANG) - Rupert Grint found it "weird" kissing an Emma Watson stand-in. The "Harry Potter" star had to lock lips with a masked girl when his stunning co-star was unable to film scenes on the forthcoming wizard movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows."

He said: "There have been a couple of scenes where Emma has missed filming. But when you have to kiss a girl in a mask, it's totally weird."

In the hit movie franchise, the pair play Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, long-time school friends who become romantically involved.

Rupert and Emma dreaded having to shoot the kissing scenes.

The 19-year-old beauty recently admitted she "pounced" on Rupert, 21, when they needed to get up close and personal and was terrified of laughing during the intimate scenes.

She explained: "I pounced on him, I was so desperate to get it over with."

"We were both really nervous about laughing and not being able to take it seriously."

"It was awkward for both of us because we are like siblings - imagine growing up with someone since you were nine."

Emma Watson on her wardrobe malfunction

Emma Watson has brushed off her embarrassing wardrobe malfunction at Tuesday’s 07 July 2009 HARRY POTTER premiere in London - insisting it could have been a lot worse. The 19-year-old star braved torrential rain on the red carpet during the world premiere of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” alongside co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

She was snapped by photographers accidentally flashing her panties to hundreds of fans and the world’s press as she tried to gather her dress up to avoid stepping on the hem. But she has laughed off the incident and insists it could have been worse: “This was a small wardrobe malfunction; that happens. I don’t actually remember it happening. At least I’m wearing underwear!” (WENN)

Emma Watson buys ski chalet

Emma Watson recently purchased a $1.4 million ski chalet in Meribel, France. The Harry Potter star Hermione Granger has already earned over $20 million dollars in income from the cuddly little book turned into feature film series; and, now she is taking the path of the smart successful young actor by buying mountain real estate.

Some also speculate she might have witchcraft in her bloodline. According to a reputable ancestry website, Ms. Watson is a distant relative of Joan Playle of Essex County, England, a 16th-century English woman convicted of witchcraft in 1592. Playle was unmarried which often was the nail in the coffin for witchcraft hunters, but she was not executed. She was excommunicated from the Church of England.

Indubitably she moved to France, Emma Watson's country of birth, to hit the Chamonix ski resort known for its big steeps and spines.

Emma Watson, The descendent of a witch

The 19-year old who has made more than £18 million from playing Hermione Granger in the wizard franchise, is a cousin 14 generations removed from Joan Playle.

Her distant relation, from Great Waltham in Essex, was one of only 270 known people tried of witchcraft during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.


But rather than be burned at the stake, it appears Miss Playle was merely excommunicated from the Church of England.

Although details of Miss Playle's conviction remain unclear, it would appear she was unmarried. Those generally accused of being witches in the 16th century were either old, poor, unprotected, or singler or widowed women.

Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist from Ancestry.co.uk, who researched Watson's heritage, said: "It is not every day we are able to trace the branches of a family tree back to the 16th century witch trials.

"It shows researching your family's past can have just as many twists and turns as a film blockbuster.

"As we researched Emma's family, we learned that her great great great grandmother was named Frances Playle - a very uncommon surname.

"The Playles have been in a small area of Essex since the early 1500s."

Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, roughly 100 miles from the area.

The actress, who achieved straight A grades at A level in English literature, geography and art at Headington School in Oxford, is reportedly set to attend Ivy League Brown University, in Rhode Island, USA, in September.

She is rumoured to be taking a three-year break from acting in order to concentrate on her studies, although she is currently finishing off work on the two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.