5 things we learned about Emma Watson during her talk with feminist writer Gloria Steinem

The 25-year-old interviewed the (unbelievably) 81-year-old for a special event in London.

We went along and learned a few things about actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador.

1. She used to hate her strong eyebrows.

“I used to hate that I had strong eyebrows. As a nine-year-old I desperately wanted to pluck them and make them two thin lines,” she said.

But she admitted that “you come to embrace these things”, which was largely down to her mum.

“My mother desperately tried to tell me that they gave my face character, don’t be ashamed,” she added.

And it would seem – as is often the case – that mother does know best since prominent brows are so on point right now.

2. She is just like Hermione.

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“I feel as though I spent a long time trying to pretend I was not like Hermione. And, of course, I was rather like Hermione. I’ve finally come to accept the fact,” she said.

Not a thing wrong with that.

3. She still gets nervous at big events.

Emma proved she’s just like the rest of us when she said she can suffer from “frustrating” mind-blanks.

She also shared that she “thought she was going to die” when she made her first speech on the topic at the UN on the launch of her HeForShe campaign. We can’t quite relate to that one, though.

4. You probably won’t see much of her hands at the beginning of her important talks

She confessed: “I just shake and am really embarrassed and conscious that people can see me shaking. So I try to keep my hands out of view, then I try to introduce them later on so I don’t look stiff.”

We’ll all be watching now, just to make that pressure even worse.

5. She loves acting – but she also loves speaking as herself, not a character.

Emma is taking a gap year from acting to focus on feminist activism, and told Paper magazine that she’s planning on reading “a book a week” (HOW *Hermione* of her).

She described acting as “both the most liberating and terrifying thing” and talked about how she finds speaking as a character compared with speaking as herself.

“It’s the most transcendent amazing experience, and I love what I do. But to speak from my own experience is really amazing for me,” she said.