Emma Watson received 'many supportive messages' after driving ban
Emma Watson has recalled being inundated with supportive messages from the public.
Emma Watson received "so many" messages of support after she was banned from driving.
The 35-year-old actress received a six-month driving ban in the UK in July, after she was caught speeding at 38 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone - but Emma was soon inundated with supportive messages from people who'd been through similar experiences.
Speaking to Jay Shetty for his On Purpose podcast, Emma joked: "I recently started riding a bicycle. Yes, I started riding a bicycle before my driving ban, but now it's particularly fortuitous that I also ride a bicycle for that reason."
Emma had nine points on her licence before her most-recent indiscretion. But she was surprised that her driving ban attracted so much attention.
She said: "I was getting phone calls. Like, it's on the BBC, it was on international, worldwide news! I was like, 'My shame....' It is everywhere."
Despite this, Emma was surprised to receive so much support from the general public.
The actress added: "When you worked on movies — I don't know if people know this — they literally will not insure you to drive yourself to work. I've asked so many times. You have to be driven. It's not a choice. Especially because they need you there down to the minute, basically, depending on what they have going on.
"So I went from basically only driving myself on weekends or during holiday to when I became a student, driving myself all the time. I did not have the experience or skills, clearly, which I now will and do."
Meanwhile, Emma recently revealed that she doesn't miss "selling" her films.
The actress has stepped back from the movie business in recent times in order to pursue a doctorate at the University of Oxford, and Emma revealed that she doesn't miss some aspects of the industry.
She told Hollywood Authentic: "In some ways, I really won the lottery [with acting], and what happened to me is so unusual. But a bigger component than the actual job itself is the promotion and selling of that piece of work, this piece of art. The balance of that can get quite thrown off."
