Some might argue that it’s impossible to find a feminist role model in the Disney princess canon, where a woman’s fate is sealed with a kiss and the voice of another is traded for the love of a man. But Emma Watson, who stars as Belle in Disney’s upcoming live-action version of “Beauty and the Beast,” believes her princess might just be the fairest of them all. Speaking with the print magazine Total Film about the highly anticipated movie, Watson explained that director Kenneth Branagh had initially approached her to star as Cinderella in the 2015 remake, but she turned the role down. “I didn’t know they were going to make ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at the time I turned down ‘Cinderella,’” Watson said. “But when they offered me Belle, I just felt the character resonated with me so much more than Cinderella did.”

Source: Huffington Post January 17, 2017 18:20 UTC