GettyThe 'Harry Potter' alum -- who took a break from acting after 2019's 'Little Women' -- reveals the "freeing" part of acting she misses "profoundly," while explaining why a "bigger component" of her acting career was "soul-destroying." Emma Watson is reflecting on her acting career -- nearly seven years after she decided to step away. While speaking with the Hollywood Authentic, the Harry Potter alum -- who took a break from acting after filming 2019's Little Women -- shared that while there are several things she misses about acting, she found promoting her work to be "soul-destroying." "In some ways I really won the lottery [with acting], and what happened to me is so unusual," Watson said. The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn't have very much control over.