Harry Potter star Emma Watson had a huge crush on one of her co-stars on set – but it wasn’t her on-screen love Rupert Grint.
Not only did Harry Potter and his friends have to deal with unexpected feelings, but so did their actors. Actress Emma Watson, for example, confessed that she had a crush on a co-star on set.
Emma Watson was in love with Tom Felton
On screen, a tender love blossomed between Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Watson) in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. As Ladbible summarized in September 2024, the Harry Potter actress had a huge crush on a very specific co-star. Watson had already confessed this in 2012 as a guest on The Jonathan Ross Show:
Between the ages of ten and twelve, I had a terrible crush on Tom Felton. It got so bad that I would go to work in the morning and check the call sheets to see if he was going to be there.
Tom Felton played Harry Potter’s nemesis Draco Malfoy.
When asked why she had a crush on him, Watson replied:
We love a villain, he was a few years older and had a skateboard – and that was that.
However, her feelings were not reciprocated:
He knew full well that I had a crush on him, and the problem was that he told everyone, ‘I see her in a younger, sisterly way,’ and that just broke my heart. It still does.
The confession of the former Hermione Granger actress comes at this point with a wink.
