Emma Watson: I aspire to be like Belle from Beauty and the Beast

The 26-year-old actress has revealed that after rejecting the chance to star in Disney’s ‘Cinderella’, she accepted the role of Belle in the upcoming live-action adaptation because she can see certain similarities between herself and her on-screen character. She explained: “I didn’t know they were going to make ‘Beauty And The Beast’ at the time I turned down ‘Cinderella’.