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How much did Emma Watson get paid for Beauty and the Beast? ›

Emma took home $15 million for Beauty and the Beast, because duh, Disney pays. Interestingly, her base salary was $3 million and the other $12 million came from bonuses based on how well the film did at the box office.

As the singing and speaking voice of the animated heroine Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Paige O'Hara added a Disney classic to a career that has spanned Broadway, opera and concert stages, and the recording studio.

The original printed version of Beauty and the Beast is credited to a French writer called Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. She included it in a 1740 story collection called The Young American or Tales of the Sea. She claimed that a chambermaid told it to a young lady, while on board a ship to America.

Perhaps most notably, Watson also refused to wear a corset under her character's iconic yellow dress. Watson told Entertainment Weekly that she wanted to play an "active" princess, and that a corset would restrict her movement.

Who is the richest Harry Potter actor? Radcliffe is currently the wealthiest actor from the Harry Potter franchise. The rest of the main kid cast's ranking, in order from highest to lowest estimated net worth, is: Emma Watson at $85 million.

During a recent press conference for the film, the 26-year-old actor told the Irish Independent that she felt fortunate to have already had the privilege to play two of her fictional role models — Belle and Hermione Granger. “I think that I just feel really lucky.

An elegantly rendered costume drama that opened Friday, Belle tells a true story only lately becoming better known in Britain and remarkable in its details: An illegitimate biracial child, Dido Elizabeth Belle, born to a British admiral and a former slave he loved, is brought up as an orphaned, beloved member of her ...

Early sketches of Belle by Alyson Hamilton show the character in a pink gown with soft makeup and curled hair, tied up. "I didn't see how anybody would identify with that person," O'Hara said of Belle's original concept. "You'd look at her and put her on a pedestal. Mark and James changed the look of her.

as Belle, Josh Groban as The Beast, Shania Twain as Mrs. Potts, Martin Short as Lumiere and David Alan Grier as Cogsworth.

In the film, Watson did her own dancing and singing, which was challenging at times. "It's something I've always done and always loved to do, but to do it in such a beloved musical and when the songs are so well-known, I think I really felt the weight of that," Watson said. "[I] don't know how to explain it.

Did Emma Thompson really sing in Beauty and the Beast? ›

Emma Thompson sings in Beauty & The Beast, but the remake is not her first musical — or even her first Disney musical! If it were, it would have been an intimidating way to start. After all, it's Mrs. Potts who serenades the unlikely couple when they have their private dance in the ballroom.

The fairy tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus as well as Ancient Greek stories such as "Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass, written by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and "The Pig King", an Italian fairytale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of ...

The moral of Beauty and the Beast is that we should value inward characteristics such as kindness over other superficial qualities, such as wit and appearance. This moral is presented by showing that Beauty valued the inward characteristics of Beast, and fell in love with him despite his outward appearances.

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Belle is thought to be around the age of 17 in the film, with Prince Adam as the Beast being 21-years-old.

Though it isn't clear exactly how much Watson made for each Harry Potter movie, the actor earned $4 million for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and was paid a massive $30 million for the two-part finale of the Harry Potter franchise (via Cosmopolitan).

Following the order of the films, in 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', Daniel Radcliffe earned 14 million dollars; in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince', 24 million dollars. Finally, he earned 50 million dollars in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

During a recent press conference for the film, the 26-year-old actor told the Irish Independent that she felt fortunate to have already had the privilege to play two of her fictional role models — Belle and Hermione Granger. “I think that I just feel really lucky.

In honor of the home release of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, be our guest and check out this behind-the-scenes clip about the casting of Emma Watson. "Emma Watson was our first -- and really our only -- choice for Belle," director Bill Condon said, "for a lot of reasons: her talent, her beauty, her intelligence."