Beauty and the Beast actor Emma Watson, who is featured as the cover star for the latest issue of Vanity Fair, received a lot of backlash on social media ever since pictures from the shoot started coming out. She has been criticized for wearing a see through top and a lot of articles written on this have attempted to objectify Watson. One of the publications, The Sun titled the article as ‘Beauty and the breasts’.
Beauty and the Beast actor Emma Watson, who is featured as the cover star for the latest issue of Vanity Fair, received a lot of backlash on social media ever since pictures from the shoot started coming out. She has been criticized for wearing a see through top and a lot of articles written on this have attempted to objectify Watson. One of the publications, The Sun titled the article as ‘Beauty and the breasts’.
Watson responded to the criticism in an interview with Reuters and said that feminism is about freedom and that she’s amazed at the negative remarks that are pouring in.
“Feminism is about giving women choice, feminism is not a stick to beat other women with, it’s about freedom, it’s about liberation, it’s about equality,” she asserted. “I really don’t know what my t**s have to do with it.”
Reflecting on the picture that led to the controversy, Watson shared, “The shot itself I was honestly slightly taken aback by, because we’d been doing so many crazy things on that shoot. But it felt incredibly artistic and I’ve been so creatively involved and engaged with [Vanity Fair photographer Tim Walker], and I’m so thrilled about how interesting and beautiful the photographs were.”
