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Hello Emma fans! We’ve all woken up today with the news that Emma has joined the family business and teamed up with her brother in the launch of a gin, Renais! Our gallery has been updated with both the cover for How To Spend It, out today, and the photo session featuring the siblings. You can read the full article below, that gives you not just a better insight of the family business but also Emma’s career over the years, and spoiler alert: Looks like Emma is gearing up to go back to school soon (and we might be getting some more news from the acting and directing realm soon).

To call Emma Watson’s father an oenophile would be undercooking it. “He’s a mega-nerd,” says Emma over a long lunch last September, with a bias towards regional classics, at Bistrot des Grands Crus in Chablis.  “I prefer to say I’m passionate,” Chris replies, taking the measure of a glass of local red. “But I am a mega-nerd.” Chris Watson loves France, and the French. More specifically, he loves rural Burgundy, in the eastern-central part of the country, and especially Chablis, the small Burgundian town famous for its white wine.  But the Watsons are in France, en famille, to toast a new venture: the launch of a gin, the brainchild of Alex Watson, Emma’s younger brother, who until recently was an executive in the drinks industry. It’s called Renais, or “rebirth”, pronounced like “Renée”. And, uniquely for a gin, it is as much French as it is English, just as the Watsons feel themselves to be.

At least partly a tribute to Chris, and to the land – the terroir – that the Watsons love, Renais will go on sale for the first time today, initially in the UK. Flavoured by the skins of grapes handpicked in the steepest, most prestigious grand cru vineyards of Chablis, it is, in Alex’s description, “quite an esoteric product”. And, in its way, a very modern one: the grape skins are organic and the gin is certified carbon-neutral. Chris Watson, 65, is a high-flying City lawyer, a partner in a large international law firm, with a focus on communications law. He is also an accomplished linguist. As well as French, Watson speaks German, Spanish, Italian, and his Russian is good enough to decode complicated legal documents. His English is also decent. But Chris’s real passions are for game fishing, music and wine-making – and wine-drinking.

He first came to Chablis in 1987, “to pick grapes and carry a hod up and down a hill”, as he puts it, sounding very much like a man who would like nothing more than to be doing exactly that right now. Back then, he was a young English barrister recently relocated to Paris with his then wife, Jacqueline, also a lawyer. During their seven years in France, they had two children, Emma, born in 1990, and Alex, two years later. And even though the family moved back to England when Alex was a toddler, Chris and the kids kept coming back to Chablis year after year. (Chris and Jacqueline divorced in 1995, and Emma and Alex have long since acquired new siblings on both sides.) Chris bought his first vineyard in 1991. This was easier said than done. It took him eight years to satisfy the criteria of the local authorities so that he could plant his vines. Bureaucracy, I am not the first person to note, is a French word. Then again, so is entrepreneur.
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To celebrate her directorial debut with Prada’s new refillable perfume, Emma took part in a shoot for the Autumn/Winter issue of Wonderland magazine, where she graces us with not one but four covers! Our gallery has been updated with the covers and outtakes from the photo session.

And at last! I’ll be honest, I had kind of forgotten this photoshoot ever happened… but Emma’s photos for the Pirelli Calendar 2020 have finally been released! She’s featured on their website, and our gallery has been updated with the images.

PAOLO: You know we are preparing a new version of Romeo and Juliet, and we are looking for Juliet. Have you ever been to Verona?
EMMA: No, I’ve never been to Verona.
PAOLO: Do you see Juliet more as an innocent girl or more as a rebel?
EMMA: She’s both, she’s a paradox. She’s incredibly innocent, but I think that innocence gives her her strength and her wisdom. I think she’s not been tainted by the world yet, or told that things aren’t possible.
PAOLO: Do you believe in eternal love?
EMMA: I bloody hope so, I think so. Yes. I’m definitely holding out for that.
PAOLO: Has no one ever asked you to play Juliet?
EMMA: Many times.
PAOLO: And why did it never happen?
EMMA: It felt a little… on the nose. I wanted to try and do different things.
PAOLO: Do you think you’re ready now to play Juliet?
EMMA: Maybe. It’s just… dying on stage every time for months at a time seems tough.

Emma gets on ‘stage’ to perform.

PAOLO: Now you are on stage Juliet!
EMMA: Now I’m on stage.

Emma is on the cover of the December issue of British Vogue! The beautiful photoshoot was shot by Alasdair McLellan, who’s worked with Emma many times before. This is a big contribution to the promotion of the movie “Little Women“, which stars Emma, Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen, and is currently set to premiere at Christmas. Our gallery has been updated with images from the issue!

The age of influence, it’s said, is upon us. Whether on the front row or on the front benches – or simply leaning over our smartphones – we have more eyes on each other than at any time in history. As is also often said these days, it’s a lot.

Of course, in the fashion industry and across social media, the concept of an “influencer” has evolved in a few short years into one that we all fully understand. Many influencers are now stars in their own right, while millions more around the globe, armed with a new handbag and a winning filter, continue to strive for clicks and likes. It’s an important sea change, but I do sometimes wonder how many are doing anything truly useful with this modern superpower.

Emma Watson is one woman getting it right. Since she was cast as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise 20 years ago (aged just nine), she has been one of the most recognisable faces on the planet. Famous in practically every corner of the world, she accumulated influence the old-fashioned way; coming of age in the digital era means she now finds herself with a cross-platform following of over 100 million engaged and devoted fans.

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