Emma Watson’s lucrative decision

Actress Emma Watson rued the day she passed up La La Land, but hit the jackpot with Beauty and the Beast.

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Making the right move: putting the beast first could bag her $17.5m
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Just ten weeks ago, Emma Watson was cursing losing the lead role of Mia in La La Land "for being too demanding", according to Emily Smith in The New York Post. Watson allegedly made a series of "crazy demands", including the condition that "rehearsals for the film must be done in London for a film called La La Land!". Although the producers' "jumped through hoops to make it work with her", Watson decided that "she wasn't able to commit". Of course, after the film became a big hit and helped Emma Stone win an Oscar, Watson started "freaking out and looking for someone else to blame", claims Smith.

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